TinTin是一所高中学校的英语老师,怀二胎的产假期间还充分利用时间学习充电,下文是她尝试用全英文分享的英语学习经验,而且诸多词汇短语是现在6月正在学习的Diary of a Wimpy Kid🔥《小屁孩日记》的经典表达哦,活学活用的本领真的令人叹为观止呀,大家赶紧看看吧:)——小微

Hello, everyone, I’m TinTin from Class 28. I’m a high school English teacher now taking my parental leave for my second baby.
WSE & I
I’ve been having second thoughts about signing up in WSE(WeStudyEnglish微学英语) for months before I finally gathered up enough courage to do it. Why? Because, for one thing, I was not that confident in my ability to insist as long as half a year, and for another, I was afraid I wouldn’t have enough time, considering that I have two kids to take care of NOW, and two kids and a job and endless domestic chores to attend six months LATER.
However, my communication with Yuxuan, a member of Class 27, TOTALLY cleared all my worries and uncertainties. In WSE, there is our role model, Jonathan, who actually has impressed me deep enough with his perfect pronunciation and voice, GJ, our principal, who is always a tremendous helper with lectures of various themes, Baymax, with his professional knowledge and sharp hearing, always giving us immediate advice on our confusion in pronunciation and all, also Xiaowei, who is so gentle and considerate and helpful. And in WSE, we can utilize our odd times to study, and there’s also this “ridiculously” amazing and useful RULE: San Zhen Chu Ju, which means, if you don’t daka for three times, you will be kicked out of your study group! WOW! That’s news to me, and exactly what I want to help me insist, at least “compelled” to at first.
So, this is how I started up a journey with WSE I bet I’ll never let go of.
My Everyday Learning Procedure
Actually, to be honest with you, there is nothing new in my learning procedure, but I have the habit of previewing and taking notes. Usually, I just complete the challenges ONE BY ONE, and take notes of what’s new to me, except for the extensive-reading part. I love the way this part is dealt with by Jonathan, so I often take notes of all the extracted parts, idiomatic expressions and examples. All I can say is, of all the daily learning, I just do it TO THE MOST with every single challenge and insist on doing it every single day; therefore, though I kind of hit the plateau now and then, I’m really making progress continuously. 
Listening challenge. Following through on the suggestion of one talented member, I began to do the whole-passage dictation, except for the times when I’m not available then and there, like when I’m accompanying my baby or when I’m out on vacation.
Interpreting Challenge. I do it just as GJ told us in one lecture, doing it respectively before and after listening to Jonathan’s paraphrase of the extensive reading. In reality, IC is where I learn the most. While doing IC, I’ve accumulated a whole lot of idiomatic expressions and trained my translation ability.
Topic Challenge. Before GJ’s lecture, I made a common mistake, fancy using those long sentences with clauses. Then I realized, oral English is way different from written English. Fluency matters a lot more than accuracy and the aim is to communicate so I better say it as simply as I can to make myself understood and keep the communication going smoothly.
Experience to Share
After almost four-month study in WSE, I figure I have some experience to share which might be of help in some way.
1. Be a diligent learner
I strongly recommend that during the FIRST month or two in WSE we practice the pronunciation as hard as possible for the obvious reason that most of us members are taught British English since we began to learn English, but in WSE, we are exposed to a pure American English environment. We listen to our mentors speaking American English, and we read American writers’ books read by Americans; therefore, as a beginner, we’ll feel, let me say, awkward about speaking English at first. I guess the best way to make yourself used to it as soon as possible is to take it WHOLLY, without doubt. Meanwhile, be a diligent learner. We can refer to the dictionary frequently. WHENEVER we find ANY word pronounced differently from what we’re familiar with, don’t hesitate to look it up in OuLu. To give two simple examples here: NOT, BritE. [nɒt] v.s. Am.E. [nɑt]; HALF, BritE. [hɑːf]  v.s. AmE. [hæf]. Plus, like I said before, practice MR as HARD as possible, until you can catch up with the speed and rhythm of NS. Trust me on it, back in MY first month, I practiced at least 30 times a day, and now, sometimes if I don’t have enough time, maybe I just practice 5 times or so, but the effect is the same. Also, I began doing the challenges during my first month, when I was not even required and qualified to, and the whole process would take me more than two hours a day, and now, I can finish all the challenges within 45 minutes without being interrupted. Active practice really pays off!  This gives me confidence in insisting on learning when I finish my parental leave and begin my busy life in September.
2. Take a chance to be monitor
In all honesty, I’ve never thought of being monitor when I first joined WSE, but my monitor in April, Susan, kept encouraging me to try at least once, and also inspired by one talented member (Yes! The Talented Show is amazing, from which I benefit a lot every time), I made up my mind to try being monitor in May. 
Not mentioning how to paizhuan, I just state my experience from a personal perspective. I guess we all clearly remember how fast the NS read in May (Make Him Beg for your Attention), therefore, to avoid making mistakes while paizhuaning, I devoted even more time practicing and got the hang of every single detail about the MR. To sum up, my hearing turns sharper and the daily Paizhuan from Baymax (Can I say that’s the biggest lure to be monitor, haha) makes me clearer about my pronunciation. SO, if you have spare time, don’t hesitate to try it. If not, squeeze some time to try at least once. You’ll see the amazingly huge change in yourself. 
3. Make the most of all the learning materials
The phonetic dictionary of American English including vowels and consonants is especially of use to our pronunciation. 
Don’t waste the extensive-listening materials. Usually I’ll listen at least 3 times for the whole book. If you are an English beginner, or if you are not confident in your listening, extensive reading will help you a lot. 
Mark my word here, never ever miss one single lecture from GJ, from which I benefit tremendously. During my first month actually, I’ve listened to nearly all his lectures done before. Many of my learning habits, like SMR (Shadowing Morning Reading), how to do TC, how to utilize the on-line dictionary, and some pronunciation knowledge about tunyin and liandu, etc.
4. The best way to learn is to review; the best way to review is to keep learning
I’m a high school English teacher myself, and this is also what I keep reminding my students of. The best way to learn is to review; the best way to review is to keep learning. Whether it be the pronunciation or your vocabulary, if you put your heart into it while learning, you’ll often come across amazing wonders and surprises. For instance, remember the phrase, “make a killing” in the Ivan book, and can you feel how joyful I am when I see it again in the Wimpy Kid book, not to mention the phrase “temper tantrum” which appears at least three times.
5. Attitude
I figure you’ll agree with me on this: The organizing mechanism of WSE is really really wonderful, which at least “forces” you to study in the first place, then you become accustomed to learning every day. However, wonderful as it is, if you cannot make THE MOST of it, and even just do it mindlessly and playfully, I dare say, you won’t achieve much at last. It’s all up to YOU as to where you can reach in WSE!
文章作者28班学员TinTin(No.2806)
所在城市福州
入学时间:2017年3月
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