中國科學(xué)院院士、諾貝爾物理學(xué)獎(jiǎng)得主楊振寧教授2004年在清華園，為清華本科生講授《普通物理》。第一堂課上楊振寧教授和大家談起了英語學(xué)習(xí)的問題。ScalersTalk成長會(huì)社群成員通過當(dāng)年楊教授的珍貴視頻聽寫出下面的文本資料：

But I also want you to learn some English. I understand some of you would be able to understand my English. But others may have some difficulties. I hope by speaking slowly you could understand most of what I say. But I want also to tell you a very good method to learn English. To learn English, you have to learn how to listen, how to read, how to speak and how to write. Although those are very different, there is one thing which ties them together, that is your own pronunciation.

For a Chinese student, at the beginning, there's a tendency to be very much afraid to speak because the Chinese pronunciation and English pronunciation are very different. The Chinese language emphasizes the muscular movement of the mouth in the front, like the lips, the teeth, the tongue. In English, the main part of the vocal organs are more backward, so you have to learn to move the center of attention when you speak from the front of the mouth to the back of the mouth.

And how do you do that? There is no better way than to read aloud.

So I want every one of you to spend maybe three or four minutes every day and read aloud. If you practice that for, let's say, for a month, I can guarantee, your English would improve. Because, for example, English grammar has many peculiar features which are not understandable to a Chinese student.

我剛練英文的時(shí)候，覺得很奇怪，“I am”、“you are”、“he is”，為什么要更改，為什么多數(shù)要加s。我當(dāng)初練的時(shí)候最初覺得這個(gè)很不自然，覺得中國這個(gè)是比較自然，可是后來我懂了，所以有這些加s,有些inclination，它的原因是與發(fā)音有關(guān)系的，所以你如果發(fā)音發(fā)得好的話，很多文法上的問題，You would understand naturally.

Therefore, to try to pronounce, think correctly and aloud is very important.

For example, you have, in front of you, this handout. Everybody has that. On the first page is appendix. I’m going to add(it) to the dictionary. I’m going to add (it)to the dictionary later. But if you turn to the next page, the next few pages are from Feynman’s book. So I’ll give you an example. If you look at the first paragraph of this handout from Feynman, it’s a very short paragraph, you can spend two minutes in the morning, read it aloud. In fact, probably in front of a mirror. Because then you can watch yourself. If you have a recorder, record it. After one month, you would realize, after one month of this practice, if you listen to what you had recorded a month ago, you would realize that you have improved. So this is the important thing I want to do this.

聽了楊教授的講課，我們發(fā)現(xiàn)教授并沒有講很多高深的方法，他主要提到以下方面：

1、 學(xué)習(xí)英語要練習(xí)聽說讀寫，發(fā)音是貫穿其中的關(guān)鍵。中文和英文的發(fā)音方式有很大不同，中國人初學(xué)英語時(shí)感到很不適應(yīng)。

2、 很好的解決方法就是：大聲朗讀。每天早上哪怕朗讀三四分鐘英文，堅(jiān)持一個(gè)月，你會(huì)看到自己的進(jìn)步。

3、 最好能在鏡子前面練習(xí)，好好觀察自己。同時(shí)要把朗讀進(jìn)行錄音，一個(gè)月后再來對(duì)比。 （我在大學(xué)英語課上，當(dāng)時(shí)有位老師帶我們?cè)阽R子前練習(xí)過發(fā)音）

4、 發(fā)音很重要，它讓你可以更好的理解文法。（我的理解是：經(jīng)常朗讀，你的語感會(huì)增強(qiáng)，對(duì)語言的結(jié)構(gòu)、韻律以及涵義都能自然領(lǐng)會(huì)）

很多時(shí)候我們總想尋找到足夠好的方法或者秘笈實(shí)現(xiàn)突破，一鳴驚人，其實(shí)方法再好，如果三天打魚兩天曬網(wǎng)，最終還是沒有效果。用一個(gè)簡單的方法，堅(jiān)持不懈的行動(dòng)才更有效。

大道至簡，大師都這么說了，我們也不要想太多，開始好好堅(jiān)持練習(xí)朗讀吧。