相信這是一個困擾許多人的問題。其實大家都知道方法很多，也很雷同，關鍵還是要看自己的行動和堅持。今天分享一位來自印度高級軟件工程師的英語學習故事和經驗，希望可以啟發(fā)到大家啦，一起來看看吧。

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I am a mediocre English speaker and writer,so forgive me for my poor writing ability. But I'd love to share my experienceabout how I managed to sell 50-60 novels in Bangalore traffic every day, withthe power of the little English that I knew.

我是一個普通的英語演講者和作家，所以請原諒我的寫作能力。但我很愿意分享我的經驗，我是如何利用我所知道的一點點英語，每天在班加羅爾的人流量中賣出50-60本小說的。

I came to Bangalore two years ago in searchof a job. The first two months, I searched for a job but did not get any,because of my age (16) and qualification (10th pass). So I went to the nearest railway station and was recruited by a shopkeeper to sell novels andnewspapers. I was ecstatic, but increasingly nervous at the same time because Ihad never sold anything before. Commission was fixed by the shopkeeper:twenty-five paise for each newspaper sold and three rupees for a novel. I stillremember the first day, when I managed to sell twelve newspapers and two novelsin a whole day and earned Rs. 9; and next day Rs. 13. But that was insufficientto get even a single meal.

我兩年前來到班加羅爾找工作。前兩個月，我找了一份工作，但沒有得到，因為我的年齡(16歲)和資歷(第10才通過)。于是我去了最近的火車站，被一個店主雇來賣小說和報紙。我欣喜若狂，但同時也越來越緊張，因為我以前從來沒有賣過東西。傭金由店主定:每賣出一份報紙25派薩（1派薩等于百分之一盧比），賣一本小說3盧比。我還記得第一天，我設法在一天內賣掉了12份報紙和兩本小說，賺了9盧比，第二天是13盧比。但這還不夠吃一頓飯。

Since my Mom was sick and unable to go towork, I had to earn enough money to send home. That was indispensable, and moreimportant than feeding myself. Bangalore s weather was always cool and breezy,but I did not have warm clothes. I was feeling feverish every night, coughed alot and got up every morning with a headache and sore throat. I was just unableto understand what to do. For me, it was either DO or DIE. I was completelyfreaked out. I had to come up with a creative way to increase the sales, inorder get enough money to survive. I did not sleep whole night. After thinkinga lot, I came up with a solution: I thought I would read the novels andnewspapers and tell them why they had to buy them; what some of the interestingthings printed on the newspaper were that day, what the hottest news of the daywas or what the specialty of the currently in-stock novel was.

因為我媽媽生病了，不能去上班，我必須掙足夠的錢寄回家。這是必不可少的，比養(yǎng)活自己更重要。班加羅爾的天氣總是涼爽和微風，但我沒有溫暖的衣服。我每天晚上都感覺發(fā)燒，咳嗽很多，每天早上起床時頭痛和喉嚨痛。我只是不知道該怎么辦。對我來說，要么做，要么死。我完全被嚇壞了。我必須想出一個有創(chuàng)意的方法來增加銷售，以獲得足夠的錢來生存。我整晚沒睡。經過深思熟慮，我想出了一個解決辦法:我想我會讀小說和報紙，告訴他們?yōu)槭裁匆I;報紙上刊登的一些有趣的東西是那天的，當天最熱門的新聞是什么或者當前庫存小說的特點是什么。

Every day newspapers were coming in at 4AM. I woke up around 4:30 AM, read all of the three best-selling Englishnewspapers (TOI, Deccan Herald and The Hindu) and reviewed once more beforeleaving for the job. I used to read novels at night and in the middle of thejob. In the beginning, my English was so poor that it made people laugh. Somepeople encouraged and supported me. Others laughed and disheartened me bysaying something that generally hurt. I took it personally, but alwaysapologized saying "I m speak a little English, but I m alwaysimproving." and used it as an opportunity to try harder.

每天早上4點報紙就來了。我在凌晨四點半左右醒來，閱讀了三份最暢銷的英文報紙(《印度時報》(TOI)、《德干先驅報》(DeccanHerald)和《印度教徒報》(the Hindu))，在去上班前又看了一遍。我過去常常在晚上和工作中讀小說。剛開始的時候，我的英語很差，大家都笑我。一些人鼓勵和支持我。其他人笑了起來，說了一些讓人傷心的話，讓我很沮喪。我以為是我自己的問題，但總是道歉說:“我只會說一點英語，但我一直在進步?！?/p>

My fear of speaking strengthened. Remember,when you don t face your fears, they only get worse. Trust me, it s better thatyou speak English confidently and make a million mistakes, than if you speakperfectly but sound unsure of yourself, shy, or scared. People will feel muchmore comfortable if you are able to communicate openly. I got so many trustedcustomers who just took my reviews before buying novels. People slowly startedappreciating my hardwork. I increased my sales and I started getting enoughmoney to have food two times a day and save some to send home.

我更害怕說話了。記住，當你不去面對你的恐懼時，它們只會變得更糟。相信我，你自信地說英語，犯了無數的錯誤，這比你說得完美，但聽起來不自信，害羞或害怕要好。如果你能開誠布公地交流，人們會感覺舒服得多。我有很多值得信賴的客戶，他們在買小說之前就會看我的評論。人們慢慢開始欣賞我的勤奮工作。我增加了我的銷售額，我開始得到足夠的錢，每天吃兩次飯，省下一些寄回家。

After a few months, I got shifted to one ofthe roads with the busiest traffic in Bangalore to sell only novels, and nonewspapers. I was almost doing very well at the railway station, but I shifted.I was quite disappointed for some time. I lost my permanent customers. After Ishifted to the new place, I got enough experience on how to make more sales. Mytarget was to read at least one novel in two days. In the beginning, it took alot of time: about six days to finish a novel. I got a dictionary, a notebook(I call it a vocabulary notebook) and a diary. Whenever I read or heard newwords, I wrote it down in my vocabulary notebook, so that I could prime mybrain to learn that word at some point in the future. I also wrote down how touse that word in a sentence. That's very important.

幾個月后，我被調到班加羅爾交通最繁忙的一條路上，只賣小說，不賣報紙。我在火車站幾乎干得很好，但我改變了主意。有一段時間我很失望。我失去了永久客戶。在我搬到新地方后，我在如何提高銷售額方面積累了足夠的經驗。我的目標是兩天內至少讀一本小說。剛開始的時候，花了很多時間:大約6天就完成了一部小說。我有一本字典，一個筆記本(我叫它詞匯筆記本)和一本日記。每當我讀到或聽到新單詞時，我就把它記在我的詞匯筆記本上，這樣我就可以讓我的大腦在將來的某個時候學習這個單詞。我還寫下了如何在句子中使用這個詞。這是非常重要的。

I maintained a daily diary and I wrote downwhatever happened during the whole day. I used to go to work at 8 AM and come backat 8 PM. Every ten minutes, there was a red signal for two minutes. And thesetwo minutes were my sales time. I still remember I used to get around 60opportunities (2 min/stop) everyday, about 120 minutes in total, and my targetwas to sell at least 50 novels per day. I used to go to each car or bike guyand give them a brief about the novel and end it in a very interesting place,so that if they didn't buy it that day, they would at least come back the nextday if they were interested. People used to get more interested in buyingnovels from me because of 3 reasons: 1. They used to get honest feedback andreview from me about the novel, and they knew I loved retaining my customers.2. They liked my confidence and attitude of selling things. 3. They loved tohear my mediocre English.

我每天都記日記，把一天中發(fā)生的事情都寫下來。我過去常常早上8點上班，晚上8點回來。每十分鐘，就會有兩分鐘的紅色信號。這兩分鐘就是我的銷售時間。我還記得我曾經每天有大約60個機會(2分鐘/站)，總共大約120分鐘，我的目標是每天至少賣出50本小說。我過去常常去找每個賣車或騎自行車的人，給他們簡單介紹一下這本小說，然后在一個非常有趣的地方結束，這樣，如果他們那天沒有買，第二天如果他們感興趣的話，他們至少會再來。人們過去對從我這里買小說更感興趣，原因有三:1。他們過去常常從我這里得到關于這部小說的真實反饋和評論，他們知道我喜歡留住我的顧客。2.他們喜歡我的自信和賣東西的態(tài)度。3.他們喜歡聽我的平庸英語。

I improved my English, talking to mycustomers, reading newspapers, reading novels and writing down new words in myvocabulary notebook and maintaining a daily diary.

我提高了我的英語水平，與我的客戶交談，閱讀報紙，閱讀小說，在我的詞匯筆記本上寫下新單詞，并堅持每天記日記。

TIP #1: They say if you havegot 10,000 words in your mind, you can write a novel. Just 10,000 words. Learn100 words per day and you can make it in just 100 days: a little more than 3months. It's the first step for improving your spoken English.

技巧1:他們說如果你腦子里有1萬個單詞，你就可以寫一部小說。只是10000字。每天學100個單詞，你可以在100天內完成:3個月多一點。這是提高英語口語的第一步。

TIP #2: Read atleast one newspaper every day for a year. You can definitely improve yourEnglish. So many people disagree with me, but it works.

技巧2:每天至少讀一份報紙，堅持一年。你一定可以提高你的英語水平。很多人不同意我的觀點，但它確實有效。

TIP #3: Read at leastone novel every month.

技巧3:每個月至少讀一本小說。

TIP #4: Try to write something every day.

技巧4:試著每天寫點東西。

TIP #5: Talk to people.

技巧5:與人交談。

TIP #6: The human brain easily captures visual things and remembersit for a very long time. Because when we see something, our brain keeps a copyof that image or visual representation. So whenever you read or do things, tryto have a visual representation of it so you can remember it for a long time.

技巧6:人類的大腦很容易捕捉到視覺上的東西，并能長時間地記住它。因為當我們看到某物時，我們的大腦會保留該圖像或視覺再現的副本。所以當你閱讀或做事情的時候，試著有一個它的視覺表現，這樣你可以記住它很長一段時間。

For example, if we consider a word --banana -- our brain exactly visualizes the image of a banana. Because we readit, saw it, ate it and we already have the image in our brain. So we couldremember it easily.

例如，如果我們考慮一個單詞——香蕉——我們的大腦會準確地想象出香蕉的形象。因為我們讀它，看它，吃它，我們已經有圖像在我們的大腦。所以我們可以很容易記住它。

But if I ask you what your Gmail passwordwas a year ago (and if you changed it 4-5 times)? Most people wont remember it,because we do not have the visual image of the password in our brain; so wehave forgotten.

但如果我問你一年前你的Gmail密碼是什么(如果你改了4-5次)?大多數人不會記得密碼，因為我們的大腦中沒有密碼的視覺圖像;所以我們忘記了。

TIP #7: Love English, Live English, Dream English.

技巧7:熱愛英語，活英語，夢想英語。

Hope this helps.

生詞：

1.mediocre

英 /?mi?di???k?(r)/

美 /?mi?di?o?k?r/

adj. 普通的；平凡的；中等的

2.recruit

英 /r??kru?t/

美 /r??kru?t/

v. 征募；聘用；通過招募組建；補充；（非正式）說服；（使）恢復健康

n. 招聘；新兵；新成員

3.ecstatic

英 /?k?st?t?k/

美 /?k?st?t?k/

adj. 狂喜的；入迷的

n. 狂喜的人

4.insufficient

英 /??ns??f??nt/

美 /??ns??f??nt/

adj. 不足的；不能勝任的，缺乏能力的

5.indispensable

英 /??nd??spens?bl/

美 /??nd??spens?bl/

n. 不可缺少之物；必不可少的人

adj. 不可缺少的；絕對必要的；責無旁貸的

6.disheartened

英 /d?s?hɑ?tnd/

美 /d?s?hɑ?rtnd/

v. 使沮喪；使泄氣；使失去勇氣（dishearten的過去式和過去分詞）

adj. 沮喪的；灰心的

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