如何在6个月内学会任何外语：龙飞虎.doc

Have you ever held a question in mind for so long that it becomes part of how you think? Maybe even part of who you are as a person? Well I’ve had a question in my mind for many, many years and that is: how can you speed up learning? Now, this is an interesting question because if you speed up learning you can spend less time at school。And if you learn really fast, you probably wouldn’t have to go to school at all。 　　你是否曾经把一个问题留在心中很久，甚至可能已经成为你自己的一部分？结果它已经成为你的一种思路？我思考了一个问题很多很多年，就是：你怎样才能加快自己学习的速度？那么，这是一个很有趣的问题，因为如果你可以加快自己的学习的速度，你就可以花更少时间在学校里。如果你真的可以学习得特别快，你可能根本就不用去上学。 Now, when I was young, school was sort of okay but I found quite often that school got in the way of learning so I had this question in mind: how do you learn faster? And this began when I was very, very young. When I was about eleven years old I wrote a letter to researchers in the Soviet Union, asking about hypnopaedia, this is sleep learning, where you get a tape recorder, you put it beside your bed and it turns on in the middle of the night when you’re sleeping, and you’re supposed to be learning from this。A good idea, unfortunately it doesn’t work。But, hypnopaedia did open the doors to research in other areas and we’ve had incredible discoveries about learning that began with that first question。 在我小时候，上学还凑合，但我常常发现上学会阻碍学习，因此在心里面我有了这样一个问题：怎样才能学得更快呢？(这个想法)在我很小时候已经开始了，大约我11岁的时候，我给前苏联的研究者写了一封关于睡眠学习的信， 所谓“睡觉学习”，就是拿一个磁带录音机放在你床边， 等你入眠后机器开始播放磁带，(然后)目的是通过这种方式来学习。一个好主意，不幸的是它行不通。　但睡眠学习确实打开了研究其他领域的大门，并且我们从研究这个问题开始已经有了一些惊人的发现。 I went on from there to become passionate about psychology and I have been involved in psychology in many ways for the rest of my life up until this point。In 1981 I took myself to China and I decided that I was going to be native level in Chinese inside two years。Now, you need to understand that in 1981, everybody thought Chinese was really, really difficult and that a westerner could study for ten years or more and never really get very good at it。And I also went in with a different idea