I’ve been studying English for 16 years. The time is exactly the same as the waiting time of Yang Guo for his beloved. I found my English was really poor.

When I was in elementary school, I saw some English books by accident and always thought it was a kind of mysterious Pinyin. One summer, Xundong read me an article in English and I was really envious and thought it was an amazing language. Xundong was my buddy in childhood, who told me a lot of stories by his imagination and compensated my lack of books.

In junior middle school, I met Jim, Lei Lei, Han Meimei, Lucy and Lily and had no special feeling and my English was neither good nor bad.

In senior middle school, I had an English teacher Zou Mei. I became No.1 in the school while my class became the last. Thus Zou Mei wasn’t allowed to teach our so-called Experimental Class. Then Wu taught us instead and I became English Representative, which has nothing to promote my English and my English became common again.

In college, I never learnt English. During first CET4, I couldn’t turn on my radio and let my roommate open his radio aloud for both of us and he wasn’t willing to. So I missed my listening part and failed my first CET4 exam. Later, I passed CET4 and CET6 without effort, but I thought CET4 and CET6 had nothing to do with English level.

When I was in Ningbo, I worked in Tuopu Group and didn’t think I was a good engineer. So I decided to own a skill and study English occasionally. When I was in working shop at first, I thought working on the production line was really a waste of time. So I sat on the production line and brought a little English dictionary to read and was berated by my manager seriously.

Sometimes there were foreign visitors and I was really jealous of those who could communicate in English so fluently. Then I was totally at a loss and didn’t know what I was going to do in future. Sometimes I read my dictionary for a while because I had nothing to do in my dorm. There wasn’t even a TV and I couldn’t find any library. Gradually I found though Ningbo was a beautiful city, it wasn’t for me. It was a city for mechanics instead of electronics. So I decided to move to Shenzhen instead.

For the first two years, I didn’t know there was a big library nearby. I bought an Oxford dictionary to read, of course reading dictionary wasn’t pleasant, but I thought I was learning something at least.

Two years later, in the national day of 2010, I found UT Library and there were so many original English books inside. To me, it was really the greatest place of Shenzhen. I had a computer then and didn’t read too much. At the same time, I had to read technology books for my work.

I just checked my booklist of UT Library and found I didn’t read too much. I always blamed why my English was still so poor since I learnt so hard. By reminding my past English road, I felt ashamed and found I wasn’t trying hard to learn English. Instead, I should feel lucky I could achieve the status I’m in now. By the past learning spirit, there is no reason for me to make great progress.

On English road, I always wanted to get 10 Yuan profit by 1 Yuan effort. Now I think I’m wrong. English learning is the same as romance. I should cultivate my English field again and again regardless of profit.

Just like a drug addict, he only enjoys the process regardless of result. I hope I could become an English addict enjoying only learning process regardless of result.