These are some of the answers I think are true, and that I hope are useful. Learning any foreign language takes a long time and a great deal of effort, but learning one that belongs to a different language family from your mother tongue is especially hard. I knew in England experienced teachers of English to speakers of Asian languages belonging (as do the languages of Europe) to the Indo-European language family. When these teachers met primary students from Hong Kong they perceived them as diligent but slow. Those teachers simply failed to recognize that if Cantonese is your mother tongue you simply have more to do than (say) a Punjabi speaker, so of course you need longer to do it. It is easy to get discouraged and, in effect, to give up. Some people do—even if among those who go on attending classes conscientiously! Many more fail to recognize how much they have actually learnt and to respect their own achievements.

我想下面这些答案是千真万确的，也盼望对大家有所帮助。学习任何语言都需要很长的时间和巨大的努力，而学习一门跟你的母语不属于同一语系的语言，尤其艰辛不易。我在英国认识一些经验丰富的英语教师，他们专教（十分接近欧洲语系的）印欧语系的亚裔学生。他们一旦碰到班上有来自香港的小学生，立刻会察觉这些学生虽然用功勤勉，但却成效不佳。这些教师都未能认清一个事实：要是本身的母语是广东话，学起英文来比讲印度加语的人士，就得多花一些功夫，自然学习时间要拉长了。这样他们很容易气馁从而放弃学习。其中还不乏不曾缺课的认真学生！更有不少人对自己所学的实际进展，茫然不知，不晓得珍惜自己的学习成效。

Realistic Targets
It is important to set yourself realistic targets. For all but a small, exceptionally gifted minority, native proficiency is not a realistic target. A Chinese user of English should not feel that because he sounds and seems Chinese when he uses English that he has been less than successful in acquiring it. To have learned English well is to be fully intelligible to another user of standard English and to understand him, in ordinary circumstances.” Of course “ordinary circumstances” differ between users. Highly technical vocabulary is entirely ordinary in the context of air traffic control or information technology or any one of the many scientific and technical contexts for which English is the language of international communication. Advanced students of English need to consider what are the range of purposes for which they are likely to use their international language, and to select courses where those purposes are recognized and understood by their teachers.

学习目标不宜太高
重要的是，你应当为自己订立实际可达的目标。要是目标订得太高， 想学到和英语母语人士一般的流利自然，除了极少数资赋特优的天才外，对一般人而言是不切实际的。中国的英语学习者不应该因为自己在应用英语时有些中国味，就感到自己没有学通而耿耿于怀。所谓学通英语，就是指在一般的情况下，你的英语能让讲标准英语的对方完全了解，同时，你也能了解他所说的。当然，所谓的“一般情况”也是依讲英语的对象的不同而有差异。若是在国际间以英语来沟通，所涉及的内容是航空管制或是资讯科技，或是任何一门科学技术，那么：有关高级技术的专门词语全都成了“一般的普通用语范围”。程度高的学生必须先考虑自己所学的英语，可能要无用在那些目标范围，去作国际沟通；在选定课程时也应让教师认清并了解这些目标范围，互相配合。

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待续。。。