The Truth（真相）

   
本书旨在与读者，尤其是外语学习者，分享我在中国的教学经验和生活经验。我十年的教育历程中，有九年在中国度过。在中国的教育经历给了我很大的启迪，也让我认识到了中国的外语教学中存在的一些漏洞。经过观察，我接触到的大多数中国外语学习者，包括我本人教过的数以千计的学生，在外语学习过程中会遇到颇为类似的问题。对于这些外语学习者来说，棘手的问题是应该如何学习、掌握以及流利地说出他们所学的外语，尤其是英语。了解到来自外语学习者无数的抱怨和问题之后，我认为我有义务做些贡献，希望将来的某一天他们的情况会有所改善。所以，有关外语学习的相关知识以及如何帮助外语学习者解决他们在学习外语的过程中遇到的问题的方法是本书的丰要内容。

Abstract
Acknowledgement
Happiness 
Chapter 1
　Kinds of Happiness
　Poem
　Happiness versus Pleasure
　Why Personal Happiness Is So Important to Us?
　A Little Inspiration
　Our Society versus Happiness
　Foot for Thought：Making a Choice between Optimism and
Pessimism
　A Happy Person
　Quotation
Chapter 2
　YOu Never Learn Much from Your Past Successes
　Never Stop Learning
　Why Do We Need Change?
Chapter 3
　Examination
　Are Examinations an Essential Part of an Education Process?
　……
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Note
Answers
　　

　　This book “The Truth” aims at sharing my teaching and life
experience in China with the readers, especially the foreign
languages learners. Being a decade long teacher, I have spent
almost nine years in China by now, which has greatly inspired me a
lot, and has also given me a very good opportunity to see some of
the loopholes involved in the teaching and learning processes of
foreign languages in China. From observation, most of the foreign
languages learners I often come across in China, including the
thousands of students that I have personally taught, all face quite
similar problems during the course of learning foreign languages.
The most urgent problem for those foreign languages learners is how
to learn, master and be able to speak the foreign languages that
they learn fluently, especially the English language. This has also
left most of the foreign languages learners in China frustrated
with their learning process and also very confused about their
future lives. Even though, the Chinese educational authorities
require every single student in China right from the primary
school, to learn, know, and to be good in at least one foreign
language and especially the English language. However, it seems
very hard to find many people who have spent many years, wasted
much of their time, energy and resources in learning some of these
foreign languages, who are able to speak them, whenever they are
required to do so. This means that, there must be some very serious
problems with the teaching and learning processes. After getting
numerous complains and questions from the foreign languages
learners, I think it’s kind of my obligation to make some
contributions with the hope that their situations would be improved
someday in the future. So knowledge about foreign languages
learning and methods with which learners can deal with their
problems are the main concern of this book.
　　As a foreigner who has been living and working in China for close
to nine years, I have gotten much valuable life experience which I
would also like to share with my readers. This book comprises more
than 70 different topics with 26 chapters all together, and with
almost 800 pages. Issues about love, ambition, happiness,
motivation, examinations, how to take risks, how to make value
judgments, how to combat stressful situations, how to find your
passion, how to conquer your fear of public speaking, how to be
strong in your youth, building self-confidence, learning how to
learn, success, etc. are just a few of the topics that are also
included in the book.

　　《真相》这本书旨在与读者，尤其是外语学习者，分享我在中国的教学经验和生活经验。我十年的教育历程，有九年在中国度过。在中国的教育经历给了我很大的启迪，也让我认识到了中国在外语教学中存在的一些漏洞。经过观察，我接触到的大多数中国外语学习者，包括我本人教过的数以千计的学生，在外语学习过程中他们会遇到颇为类似的问题。对于这些外语学习者来说，棘手的问题是应该如何学习、掌握以及流利地说他们所学的外语，尤其是英语。这个问题让很多中国的外语学习者对学习感到很沮丧，对未来感到很迷茫。尽管中国的义务教育体制要求每一个学生从小学就开始学习、掌握、直至精通至少一门外语，尤其是英语。但是当要将所学的知识应用到实践中的时候，我们发现对于大多数投入了很多时间、精力、金钱去学习外语的外语学习者来说，流利地说他们一直所学的外语似乎是一项极其艰巨的任务。这意味着在中国的教育过程中一定存在着很严重的问题。了解到来自外语学习者无数的抱怨和问题之后，我认为我有义务做些贡献，以望将来的某一天他们的情况会有所改善。所以，有关外语学习的相关知识以及可以帮助外语学习者解决他们在学习外语的过程中遇到的问题的方法是本书的主要内容。

　　作为一个在中国生活将近九年的外国人，我积累了丰富的生活经验，我也希望能与我的读者分享这些经验。《真相》这本书包含了70多个不同的话题，共有26个章节，近800页。有关爱情、抱负、幸福、动力、考试，如何尝试冒险，如何树立价值观，如何在重压之下完成任务并取得成功，如何寻找对生活的热情，如何克服公众演讲的恐惧，如何在年轻时做到坚强，如何建立自信，怎样有效学习以及成功等话题也将在本书中有所体现。

　　Therefore, as a foreign language learner, or someone who is
interested in learning one, “The Truth” is out to help you to
unfold your potentials in the following ways:
　　.”The Truth” is here to help you out of that imaginary box in
which you have been hiding yourself for a very long time and, to
set you free.
　　. ”The Truth” is here to help you to discover who truly you
are.
　　. “The Truth” is here to help you in identifying what you really
want from life.
　　. “The Truth” is here to give you guides on how you can go after
what you want from life. And finally,
　　.”The Truth” will help you to become who you have always desired
to be
in life.
　　“To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to
knowledge.”

　　所以，作为一个外语学习者，或者是对某一外语感兴趣的学员，《真相》将会通过以下几个方面给予你帮助。

　　《真相》将帮助你意识到一直以来你都躲藏在自己圈定的虚拟的“框框”中并帮助你摆脱它，终得以释放。
　　《真相》将帮助你看清你真正的自己。
　　《真相》将帮助你发现你的梦想。
　　《真相》将引导你如何追求你的梦想。终，
　　《真相》将指导你如何做你自己。
　　“意识到自己的无知是通往知识的重要的一步。”