Everybody may use Chinese more, even a foreigner who has learned English well enough. Sometimes, I can use English more perfectly to express myself. To learn another language means to learn another way of thinking, so why not?
Posting in English doesn't mean I am a non-Chinese. Are you when you were just posting in it? Does is mean that you forget your nationality when posting in it? Of course not. Do you think one must use Chinese while in China? Of course not either. Sometimes, as a Chinese, you have to speak English even reluctantly. (Well, while, I'll be very glad to.)
Undeniably, our mother language --- Chinese is the most important to us. English cannot replace Chinese, never ever, never do and never will. As a Chinese, I love China eternally. But I learn English for my motherland --- China. Every letter, every word and every sentence I listening to, speaking, reading and writing is for my motherland, and what's more precisely, for protecting and carrying forward our tradition, culture and country.
The third week I came back Shenzhen Univerisity from lunar srping festival vacation, I was invited to have dinner at my professor's, so was her foreign friend. After the dinner, while we were talking at the living room, he asked me, with a sneering tone on purpose, " Why do you learn English? As you know, now that, it is Chinese that is the language which is being used by largest number of people in the world..." I fighted back, " Simply, because you HAVE NOT learned Chinese. Why are you here? For earning money through teaching? Of course, you are! Again why are you here? Are you imparting the knowledge and ability to the Chinese students you are teaching to so that they can earn much more money back from your country? Absolutely, you are, no matter how much you have hidden behind! I learn English for another day when I have to strike back a person like you!" The firece battle between us finally came to a draw by my professor's interruption. I felt insulted for I had not won, although the foreigner didn't win either. At last, my professor told me that his foreign friend was a linguist from Dutch and he knew Dutch, English, French, German, Ruassian and Italian. But what most surprised me is that he could speak Chinese like Pekinese. At the last moment for saying goodbye, he said to me, " Very few student, according to my research till now, if they told the truth, has such an excellent purpose like you. Thank you for your renewing my impression to the Chinese students and carrying forward my research to another stage..."
I am not showing off anything. Try to supposed, if you, not me, had encountered thus situation, what would you do? To sit silently aside? To find an excuse to the toilet? Or to use poor English to debate with him and finally lost in just one or two minutes?
So we must learn English well enough, and to listen to more, to speak more, to read more and to write more FOR our motherland --- China.
Posting in English doesn't mean I am a non-Chinese. Are you when you were just posting in it? Does is mean that you forget your nationality when posting in it? Of course not. Do you think one must use Chinese while in China? Of course not either. Sometimes, as a Chinese, you have to speak English even reluctantly. (Well, while, I'll be very glad to.)
Undeniably, our mother language --- Chinese is the most important to us. English cannot replace Chinese, never ever, never do and never will. As a Chinese, I love China eternally. But I learn English for my motherland --- China. Every letter, every word and every sentence I listening to, speaking, reading and writing is for my motherland, and what's more precisely, for protecting and carrying forward our tradition, culture and country.
The third week I came back Shenzhen Univerisity from lunar srping festival vacation, I was invited to have dinner at my professor's, so was her foreign friend. After the dinner, while we were talking at the living room, he asked me, with a sneering tone on purpose, " Why do you learn English? As you know, now that, it is Chinese that is the language which is being used by largest number of people in the world..." I fighted back, " Simply, because you HAVE NOT learned Chinese. Why are you here? For earning money through teaching? Of course, you are! Again why are you here? Are you imparting the knowledge and ability to the Chinese students you are teaching to so that they can earn much more money back from your country? Absolutely, you are, no matter how much you have hidden behind! I learn English for another day when I have to strike back a person like you!" The firece battle between us finally came to a draw by my professor's interruption. I felt insulted for I had not won, although the foreigner didn't win either. At last, my professor told me that his foreign friend was a linguist from Dutch and he knew Dutch, English, French, German, Ruassian and Italian. But what most surprised me is that he could speak Chinese like Pekinese. At the last moment for saying goodbye, he said to me, " Very few student, according to my research till now, if they told the truth, has such an excellent purpose like you. Thank you for your renewing my impression to the Chinese students and carrying forward my research to another stage..."
I am not showing off anything. Try to supposed, if you, not me, had encountered thus situation, what would you do? To sit silently aside? To find an excuse to the toilet? Or to use poor English to debate with him and finally lost in just one or two minutes?
So we must learn English well enough, and to listen to more, to speak more, to read more and to write more FOR our motherland --- China.
