1、1To have another language is to possess a second soul.掌握另一门语言就拥有了第二个灵魂。2A man who does not know a foreign language is ignorant of his own.Goethe一个不懂得外语的人，也不会真正了解自己的母语。歌德3Learning any language takes a lot of effort，but dont give up.学习任何语言都需要下很大功夫，但不要放弃。4Language shapes the way we think and determines
2、 what we can think about.语言塑造了我们思考的方式，决定了我们能想到什么内容。5Words are the leaves of the tree of language，of which，if some fall away，a succession of new words takes their place.词是语言之树上的叶子，如果其中一些消失了，一连串新词就会取而代之。What is poetry?Who knows?Not a rose，but the scent(气味) of the rose.Not the sky，but the light of the
3、sky.Not the fly，but the gleam of the fly.Not the sea，but the sound of sea.Not myself，but what makes me see，hear and feel something that prose.Learning Chinese could be one of the most important decisions you ever make.Chinese is becoming the language to learn in the 21st century.With the worlds larg
4、est population and a rapidly growing middle class，China stands to become the engine of the worlds economy in the coming years.This will make learning Chinese very important for people in many industries，or for those of us who wish to visit China or learn from its culture and history.There is an ongo
5、ing effort to modernize the writing system and standardize the language.An increasing number of people learning Chinese are learning the Mandarin，so unless you absolutely need to learn another dialect(such as Cantonese)，be sure you are studying Mandarin.For native English speakers Chinese is one of
6、the most difficult and most different languages to learn.The vocabulary is wholly unfamiliar and unlike anything we know.In addition，in the Chinese tone system，words are spoken in rising or falling tones，which help to distinguish between them.Furthermore，there is the Chinese writing systema collecti
7、on of thousands of individual ideograms(表意文字)，or symbols，which represent a word or an idea.These ideograms have no phonetic(音标的) valuethat is to say，we cant tell how the word is pronounced by how it is written.There is a method to present written Chinese in a phonetic script called Pinyin.If you are
8、 learning Chinese，youll be working with this Pinyin system，but the beauty of the traditional writing system shouldnt be passed up.All these factors make learning Chinese difficult for us.Yet，for a determined learner，theres always a way to overcome it.探索发现1Find out why learning Chinese is becoming more and more important.Because China is becoming more and more important to the worlds economy.2Find out the main idea of the last paragraph.It is mainly about the difficulties of learning Chinese.3Find out what would be probably written following this text.The advice on how to learn Chinese.
