in these pages, the author tells us people’s brain can hear speech content is sounds,because phonetic perception is like a sixth sense. everyone were born with the ability to recognise the sounds to the words. that’s amazing. this even happens in the situation where a adult in a foreign language environment, you perhaps didn’t know the whole meaning, but some words that you may be notice even remember them. little by little you are affected unconsciously.

any one, any time,any language, people can’t stop learning a language, because they can’t stop themselves from hearing the sound that around them, then change sounds to words. no matter how much they understand. not as rigid as the computer, people’s brain naturally hears and turns them into words, like the language instinct. i think that’s why michael learned Mandarin but was influented by the Cantonese. over the years, million words have been automatically processed in the background of the michael’s brain. in fact, michale’s brain has became a large Cantonese library. so now it’s easy to understand why he speaks the Mandarin with a strong Cantonese.

this conclusion is very enlightening to me. like i mentioned in the previous pages about my local language. as everyone know, China is large than the whole of Europe.

the language of the north and the south are very different, at the same time, the language of the east and the west are different too. now i am living in the southeast of China exactly. the local people who is living this city speak a local language that is totally differnt from the official language–Mandarin. in fact, Mandarin is equal to beijing dialect. beijing is the north city of China. my local language tone and pronunciation are complete different from Mandarin. even my local language more than like a foreign language.

the baby who is born are exposed to the local language. in daily life, it’s natural for us to switch between the local language and Mandarin.for example, i speak local language with my family and the local friend, or some daily llife. i work in Mandarin. i use them fluently and smoothly.

let me think, did i already learn a second language? if the local language is a second languge. omg, this fact encourges me too much. as i said before, i always learned the so-called language– english in the classroom. i learned the word and grammar day and night, but had little success. but on the other hand, i have been able to use the local language natrually alomost since i was a kid, even don’t remember the word and grammar. it’s like instinct. it’s not fair, in my opinion, i spend more time learning english…

next, let me analyze it, conjunct with the view of author. actually, the reason is obvious, everyone knows. that is practice. most people who learn a second language just learn, they learn text from the lesson, maybe they were studyed very seriously. but the classtime is limited. they don’t use the languge they learn in classroom. the language is ignored. but the local language is different, especially we want to talk to the elder person in the family who maybe don’t understand the Mandarin. so it creates a very strange phenomenon. the language you are learn hardly you will unable to use it, the language you have not learned is used fluent.

to be honest, this question is also bothers me. i learnd english, japanese,russian. but i do not feel like i’m learning well. just like the lady at the begining of the book, i don’t talk to the foreign people too much, just the basic daily conversations. i’ve said again and again, for a moment i thought i have no talent for any languge. the moment is that i want to make a long speech in english but can’t speak.

but now the truth is except Mandarin, even my local language is more fluent. so in thoery,can i be more fluent in a second language such as english? the answer is absolutely yes.faith is important. faith can make a hungry people survive 30 days. but faith can also crush a person. learning a foreign language is not easy actually, but it’s not be painful. otherwise, people can’t keep learning. learning a language should be fun. we communicate someone with the language, we express feeling in the language.