英文原文

这位朋友名叫 Kenneth Rung。瑞士国籍。作为一名航天调度专家，现在比利时工作。瑞士语是他的母语。他从十岁起在学校学习英语。英语现在是他的工作语言。除此之外，他还会说德语、法语。最近还在学习西班牙文。

How to learn a language.

You can learn a language as a child. Then you will learn all the grammar “by heart” and you will not even think about it as grammar. This is the normal way you learn your first language.

When you get older and want to learn a new language, you use another centre in your brains. You learn by:
1.Listening and slowly understand, phrase by phrase
2.More and more you learn more phrases, useful in everyday life

But if you really want to learn to use a foreign language, you have to
1.Learn an amount of words so you can make yourself understood
2.Learn the grammar of the language, so you can use it, feel comfortable and make you really understood.

In this aspect the grammar is very important in order not to talk and write a “pigeon language”. Learning the grammar by heart makes you understand the real language and will make you feel that you are safe and secure when you use a foreign language. You will feel safe that you use the right expressions and also feel that you use the wording that is used and common where natives speak this language.

A language consists or much more than words, it also consists of grammar, i.e. rules of how to use the words. How you combine these words and how you use them is essential for the practical use of a language. The better you learn grammar, the better you will understand the real “soul” of a language and can avoid speaking a bad language.

Grammar mainly consist of:
1.Rules for the language
2.Derogations to the rules
3.When and why these rules are not applicable

Only by learning this (by heart) you can say that you speak and read another language.

Therefore it is very important to learn the grammar of a new language you learn, in order not to be regarded as a “less knowing person”.

I say this from my own experience, I speak Swedish (as mother tongue) but also English, German, French and some Spanish and I can assure you that without studying the grammar of these languages, I would have been considered as a “pigeon”, not speaking correctly and therefore I cannot stress the importance of learning grammar enough.

Only by studying a language thoroughly (and especially grammar) you will be able to say that you know a foreign language and not just be able to read the menu at a restaurant.

As a student nowadays it is very important to be able to communicate with people from different parts of the world.

参考中文

如何学好一门语言

你可以在儿童时期学习一门语言。那时你会背会所有的语法，而你甚至不知道这是语法。这就是你学第一门语言——母语的通常作法。
当你长大了，想学一门新的语言，你使用的是大脑中的另一个中心。你通过以下的方法来学习：
1.听别人说，然后一个短语一个短语地理解。
2.逐渐地你学会了越来越多的在日常生活中有用的短语。
但是如果你想真正学会使用一门语言，你必须：
1.学会一定数量的单词以便让别人弄懂你的意思
2.学好所学语言的语法，以便你能使用它，能够做到应用自如，使别人真正地理解你想要表达的意思。
在这个层次上，为了不让自己说或写“洋泾浜”，语法就非常重要了。背会语法规则会使你理解该语言的确切含义。还会使你在使用该语言的时候感到安全保险。你会觉得很安全，因为你知道自己用的是正确的表达法和目的语国家的人所常用的措辞。
语言所包括的远不止单词。它还包括语法，也就是如何使用这些单词的规则。对于一门语言的实际应用来说，如何把这些单词联系在一起，如何正确地使用它们才是最重要的。语法学得越好，越能理解语言的真正“灵魂”，才能避免说一口蹩脚的目的语。
语法主要包括：
1.语言的规则。
2.规则的背离
3.什么时候不适合用这些规则，为什么。
只有把这些熟记在心，你才能说你会说并能读懂另一门语言了。
因此，为了不被认为是“无知的人”，学好一门新的语言的语法非常重要。
以上都是我的经验之谈。除了我的母语瑞士语，我还会说英语、德语、法语和一点儿西班牙语。我可以向你保证，如果不学这些语言的语法，我就会被认为是“洋泾浜”——不能正确地说这些语言。因此无论我怎样强调语法的重要性都不为过。
只有准确地学好一门语言（尤其是语法），你才能说你会这门语言而不仅仅是能看懂饭店的菜单。