[VoiceTube ProTip: 4 Common English Problems I See in Taiwanese Students.]

[VoiceTube 達人教室：台灣學生學英文常見的四大問題。]

Hello, everyone, I am the director of education at Easee Globe.

大家好，我是 Easee Globe 的教學長。

We came across some communication problems while having a meeting with our foreign coworkers this morning.

今天早上在與外國同事開會時，我們遇到了一些溝通上的問題。

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And I'm here today to talk to you about common things an English teacher might come across in Taiwan and how we solved it.

今天我要跟你們談談，英文老師在台灣教英文常遇到的問題，以及我們處理的方式。

First, I would like to talk to you about grammar.

問題在於怎麼運用所學的文法。

所以，我們先來看看幾個常見的錯誤吧！

Did you know that "s" is our favorite letter?

你知道 「s」是我們最愛的字母嗎？

Chinese doesn't have past tense, but English does.

And we really need to hear that sound, or else it hurts my ears when you're talking.

所以我們得聽清楚「-ed」的音，不然你在講話的時候，我耳朵會痛。

我們剛剛才講過不是嗎？還有啊？

話說回來，英文文法真的很難。

All of my students say "I want really long beautiful sentences!"

我所有的學生都跟我說：「我要又長又美的句子！」

很簡單吧！主詞、動詞、受詞。

So many students tell me they need so many words.

有太多學生跟我說，他們需要擴充單字量。

But every day, we only use a few thousand words.

但平常會用到的，也不過就是那幾千字。

Three, maybe four, maybe five thousand words.

三千、四千，也許是五千個單字。

大部分是文法相關的字跟動詞。

Tom bought a bunch of flowers for his wife on the day of their wedding anniversary.

Tom 在結婚紀念日當天，買了一束花送給他太太。

After that, it's a bunch of nouns you'll never need.

除此之外，都是些不太實用的名詞。

所以應該先熟記最常見的單字。

Your financial support is critical to us because it’ll decide whether our project can go on.

你財務上的支援對我們來說很重要，因為這會決定我們的計劃是否可以繼續進行。

There are three or four different steps to learning a language that are critical.

學一個語言有三、四個重要步驟。

You have to listen and read English to learn it.

And number 3, critically important is frequency.

Don't quit, keep going, keep going, keep going.

Another really important part at Easee Globe, as we take into consideration, is the difference between students' needs and students' wants.

在 Easee Globe，我們還會顧慮另一點，就是學生的「需求」跟「欲望」之間的差異。

Most students know what they want, but they don't understand what they need.

大多數的學生都知道自己想學什麼，但卻不了解自己需要的是什麼。

There is a real difference between needs and wants.

「需要」跟「想要」之間是有差別的。

The student would come to you and say,"I want, as a student, business English.", "I want grammar.", "I want pronunciation."

學生會跑來跟你說：「身為一個學生，我想要學商業英文」、「我想學文法。」、「我想練英文發音。」

I have this goal, and I'm gonna hire a teacher to walk me across a bridge.

我有這個目標，然後我需要一位老師協助我達成目標。

But it doesn't work like that because the goal and the needs are the same.

但事情並不是這樣的，因為目標跟需求是一樣的。

It's more like building a building, like Taipei 101.

這比較像是蓋一棟大樓，例如台北 101。

At home, you can read the newspaper in English.

在家，你可以多讀些英文報紙。

You can't just say, "OK, I'm gonna build the bridge and then be better at English."

你不可能說：「我想要英文突飛猛進。」

When your teacher asks you a question, or when I ask a student a question, and they say, "yes.", they say "no".

當老師問你問題時，或是我問學生問題時，他們會說「yes」，或是「no」。

In the USA, when I ask my friend, "Hey, what do you think about Barack Obama?"

在美國，如果我問我朋友：「嘿，你對歐巴馬的看法如何？」

He's going to say, "I think this, this, this. Because, because, because..."

他會說：「我認為怎樣、怎樣、怎樣，因為...。」

These are perfect opportunities to practice your English.

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