Who says people in the chemical industry can’t speak English well? I’m going to memorize New Concept English too (it’s very classic)

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I’ve wanted to study New Concept for a long time; recently I suddenly felt motivated to pick up the book I had bought before and start studying it, in order to improve my English further! Please, friends from Haichuan, cheer me on! :victory: :victory: Here is a classic article (reposted) to serve as an example for the author of the article! I memorized all the articles in New Concept English Books 3 and 4. I don’t have any superhuman memory, nor am I one of those people considered exceptional in terms of memory, but I managed to memorize all 108 articles in Books 3 and 4 of New Concept English within three months. 　　Article 1: Past Future Tense (Preparation Section) Some people may ask: Why do you need to memorize it? I think it would be pretty good to give it a try, right? 　　The origin of this story is a true little incident: (heard at New Oriental in the summer of 2002) There was a student at New Oriental who is now studying at Duke University. He started memorizing Book 3 of \"New Concept English\" in his first year of high school, and by his final year he had finished memorizing it. He was admitted to Peking University through the college entrance exam, and after arriving there, he didn’t want to memorize anything anymore. But when he recited it to his classmates, the others all looked at him with envy. So, driven by this vanity, he persisted in memorizing the fourth volume, mastering both the third and fourth volumes thoroughly. He knew them so well that if someone mentioned any sentence from them, he could recall the previous and subsequent sentences, and his pronunciation was very accurate, as he had practiced by imitating tapes. Later, he went to Duke University in the United States. He wrote to the teachers at New Oriental, but they dared not reply, as they were afraid of his English skills – his English was so good that they could only respond to him in Chinese, telling him that it wasn’t that they couldn’t write in English, but that they wanted him to practice Chinese a bit and not forget his mother tongue. In the first week he was in the United States, this student wrote an essay; the professor called him over and said that his essay was plagiarized, because it was written so well. The professor said, \"I’ve been teaching for 20 years and I’ve never seen an essay of such high quality.\" "This student said, \"I have no way of proving that I can write such excellent articles, but I can recite 108 articles by heart, and I do it very well. Do you want to hear them?\" As a result, before he could finish reciting the two passages, the professor started crying. Why? Because this professor thought about the fact that he had been teaching for 20 years yet hadn’t memorized a single article, while Chinese students were able to do so; he was very upset… From that moment on, I felt determined that one day I would also be able to memorize all 108 articles, and it seems I succeeded in doing that. 　　I believe some people will also ask: What was the biggest difficulty you faced while memorizing? My answer is: “Persevere.” Actually, the reason I was able to persevere came from a short story I read in Reader’s Digest: The ancient Greek philosopher Socrates, during his first lesson with his students, asked them to wave their hands upward before each class. A week later, he found that half of the students were no longer waving ； After a month, he found that only one-third of it was still waving ； Half a year later, when he looked again, he found that only one person was still waving, and that person was Plato. 　　Plato later became a great thinker and philosopher. 　　 　　In fact, everything in the end boils down to “simple repetition and mechanical labor.” As long as you do it, you can potentially reach the top in a certain field, or even become number one. Article 2: The Present Continuous Tense (Article on Specific Strategies for Memorization) No matter what we are learning, it is possible to create a plan for ourselves or establish a certain pace. 　　I heard about Wang Guowei’s three realms a long time ago: Last night, the west wind withered the green trees; I climbed alone to a high tower to gaze at the end of the world’s roads. 　　I’ll never regret growing thinner for her sake; I’m willing to become haggard just for her. 　　I searched for her among the crowd a hundred times; when I turned around, she was there in the dim light. 　　 　　Do these words give you some inspiration in what you do? 　　I really like **Poetry**, so I used it to connect the three stages of my approach to doing things. 　　The treacherous paths are as hard as iron, but now we stride forward and start anew. (This is the first realm.) Ten thousand years is too long; just fight day and night. (This is the second realm.) When the mountains are covered in blooming flowers, “I” laugh among them. (This is the ultimate goal.) Three months of intensive memorization, involving roughly 10-12 hours of studying per day; it was both painful and enjoyable for me. The pain comes from being too tired; sometimes, just looking at \"New Concept\" makes me feel nauseous ； It’s delightful to see oneself memorizing these articles one by one day after day; the joy that comes with that is self-evident. Perhaps this is what is called “pain, and happiness.” In this process of \"pain and joy,\" I also went through several stages: 1. Since I was young, when reciting texts, I would take a book with me, walk around in my little room with my head down, and recite aloud. I felt the same way when I first started memorizing New Concept English; it left me completely exhausted by the end of the day, and the efficiency was low, so this method was quickly abandoned. 　　2. I found that reciting while lying in my own bed (out loud) increases efficiency significantly; by the end of the day, I feel pretty relaxed, with only a slight strain on my voice. And that’s how I ended up at 4. I finished memorizing the third volume on the 30th. Think about it – Volume 3 has 60 lessons, and it took me over a month to finish it (Oh, I started memorizing them in March 2003). Starting from the 20th, it will be done; so with only 48 lessons in the fourth book, it should be no problem to finish it in a month. But the reality exceeded my expectations. 　　3. On May 1st, I officially started memorizing Book 4. By the time I reached Lesson 10 (Silicon Valley), my throat could no longer take it; I would start coughing as soon as I tried to memorize, and the coughing was severe, which forced me to stop memorizing for 5 days. Later, I had no choice but to memorize silently; and miraculously, I stopped coughing, and my efficiency doubled. (Maybe \"memorizing from memory\" is the habit of memorization for many people, but for me it means having to change a memorization habit developed since childhood, which is quite difficult.) ) At this point, there might not be much left to say. However, just as I was about to finish memorizing Volume 4 (up to Lesson 39, \"What Every Writer Wants\"), I encountered a major difficulty, namely \"noise\". Because my family lives in what the people in Tianjin call a “large compound”. It was the height of summer, and people went outside to enjoy the cool weather; this noise from daily life became my biggest enemy. The speed of memorization was forced to slow down. So, the original target was to finish Volume 4 by 6.10, but it wasn’t completed until 6.21. So, for me (I can’t say whether it works for others), the fastest way to memorize is: 1. Sit in a quiet place, 2. Memorize silently, 3. Try to find a place with as little noise as possible. Article 3: The Present Perfect Tense (Feelings after memorizing it) The fact that \"New Concept English\" has remained popular for 30 years proves that it is indeed a good book. 　　 　　1. Most of the articles in Volume 3 will make you think: This article is really fun; this story is interesting. The articles in Volume 3 can be said to have been crafted by the author as if they were masterpieces. If you can memorize the first 40 articles in the three volumes, your writing skills will definitely improve greatly. If you say that I’ve memorized the first 40 passages from three books, but I still can’t write essays, then it’s either your problem, my problem, or there’s a problem with the New Concept series. 　　2. Book 4 is harder. But what exactly is difficult about her? What exactly makes it more difficult than the third volume? Actually, my feeling is that Book 4 is basically made up of \"expository texts,\" while Book 3 can be said to consist entirely of \"narrative texts.\" So the difficulty of the fourth volume lies in her writing style; she has no plot, and she has her own ideas. So, a lesson like Lesson 44, \"Patterns of Culture\", is extremely difficult; it has no narrative structure, and memorizing it is very challenging. 　　The above are my humble thoughts, offered to those who share my love for New Concept English. This post was last edited by hanshan on 2009-2-25 19:38.]