NCE is not a proper textbook for daily communications

NCE has been compliled more academic style. It touches everything a little bit, but in our daily communication, we need to say food names, we need to deal bills with phone/cable/water/electricity comapnies, we need to discuss with other parent how kids are doing, and we need to discuss how the our work is going.

If you are in US, and need a basic skill of English communications, you can put back your NCE on the top shelf so you won't see it accidentally. There is one person's experience that would work for all people living in US: first, write down what you want to say, look up the dictionary and make sure all words checked for the pronounciation, and practice those sentences, and use them at your phone calls and meetings. You also need to recall what you have missed after the phone call and meetings, and make the effort to say them correctly later. This way, you will see the direct impact of the improvement. You practice your English skill in the life living context.

At the beginning, all the effort is to say the content words correctly, and ignore the past tense kind of grammatical issues. Just say the content words to express what you want to say. After you could say content words correctly for your daily routine, then try to use the function words like "want", :like", etc, and then try to be active to ask questions in your daily life..

After you are confident in your daily communication, now, if you still remember where your NCE is, take it down, recite some lessons for fun.

The reason that students who master NCE well but cannot handle daily communications is NCE does not focus on those trivial stuffs for you. NCE gives all kinds of best essays for you to read, it looks very nice, but we need to salt and soy sauce to cook meals to fill our stomach.

The important sentence I need most: your number is not right to me, I have this number in my mind, would you agree on my number?

I hope this will answer some people's puzzles on chniese English learning.

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• Thank you for the aritcle. -blueswan- ♀ (34 bytes) () 09/13/2009 postreply 15:16:09

• 楼主看书看一半 -马奎- ♂ (316 bytes) () 09/13/2009 postreply 15:57:46

• It depends what your goal is -englishreader- ♂ (1427 bytes) () 09/13/2009 postreply 17:26:17

• 我来举两个例子，你来对比一下 -马奎- ♂ (394 bytes) () 09/13/2009 postreply 17:54:49

• 好奇问一下，你太太是英语专业出身？ -好学又好问- ♀ (82 bytes) () 09/13/2009 postreply 18:14:04

• 我老婆不是英语专业 -马奎- ♂ (278 bytes) () 09/13/2009 postreply 18:55:16

• 谢谢马奎。。 -好学又好问- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/13/2009 postreply 18:57:17

• 回复：好奇问一下，你太太是英语专业出身？ -马奎- ♂ (126 bytes) () 09/13/2009 postreply 18:59:48

• what do you want me to judge? -englishreader- ♂ (856 bytes) () 09/13/2009 postreply 18:26:41

• My two cents -lilac09- ♀ (2181 bytes) () 09/13/2009 postreply 17:47:41

• Well said! Lilac -eyeyey- ♀ (24 bytes) () 09/13/2009 postreply 18:04:47

• 写得真好！向你学习。 -好学又好问- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/13/2009 postreply 18:52:02

• I agree with your points at your English level -englishreader- ♂ (1062 bytes) () 09/13/2009 postreply 18:55:18

• 我也觉得NCE是有点太教科书了，从实用的角度看效果不是很好。 -好学又好问- ♀ (849 bytes) () 09/13/2009 postreply 18:04:24

• 回复：我也觉得NCE是有点太教科书了，从实用的角度看效果不是很好。 -eyeyey- ♀ (504 bytes) () 09/13/2009 postreply 18:16:08

• 是的,NCE对阅读写作帮助还是非常大的，但是用来练口语 -好学又好问- ♀ (80 bytes) () 09/13/2009 postreply 18:48:58

• 那得看你对口语的定义是什么 -马奎- ♂ (278 bytes) () 09/13/2009 postreply 19:08:37

• 我个人觉得报纸上op-ed专栏作家的文章对写作和口语 -好学又好问- ♀ (214 bytes) () 09/13/2009 postreply 19:49:39

• Good discussion. -天泽园- ♀ (268 bytes) () 09/13/2009 postreply 18:30:42

• Ok, my summary -selfselfself- ♂ (37 bytes) () 09/13/2009 postreply 19:41:49

• Good for you. -北京二号- ♀ (338 bytes) () 09/13/2009 postreply 20:43:18

• so you are saying we are comparing apples and oranges? -selfselfself- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/13/2009 postreply 21:49:05

• No, you are comparing the same fruit. -北京二号- ♀ (699 bytes) () 09/13/2009 postreply 22:09:58

• 真热闹呀！有一点俺相信通过这次辩论，同鞋们的英文都提高了一毫米！ -lilac09- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/13/2009 postreply 20:39:57

• 你们美国不是用英制的吗？ -马奎- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/14/2009 postreply 13:02:18

• I FEEL NEC IS A VERY GOOD TEXTBOOK FOR SPOKEN ENGLISH -PINE003- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/14/2009 postreply 00:15:15