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Time：第 514 會，2020 年 7 月 25 日（週六）下午2:30~5:30
Place：
http://www.happyforum.org/happy/viewtopic.php?t=15

Agenda
14:30~15:30 Session One
15:30~15:50 Speech Session
15:50~16:00 Change Group and then Break Time
16:00~17:15 Session Two
17:15~17:30 Happy Time

Host: Micro
Assistant Host:

Topic::
9 FUN WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH SPEAKING SKILLS
Source:
https://www.langmainternational.in/9-fu ... ng-skills/

Please Note:
Venue:台中市南屯區 大業路182號 Mos Burger二樓
Thanks a lot for your attention.

Questions:

1. How long have you been learning English? What are the greatest accomplishments and frustrations this learning experience has brought to you? What kind of English teaching styles are the most impressive to you? Why? How have these teaching styles transformed your learning experience?

2. In this article, which tip do you like most? Would you like to share your experience about this tip?

3. For Taiwanese people, is it more difficult to achieve proficiency in English listening and speaking? Would you like to provide your secret tips?

4. According to your traveling experience, what countries are English-speaking countries? Are there any countries, in which the English-speaking environment is not so friendly? How can we communicate more effectively with local people?


例會須知
時間地點須知：
http://www.happyforum.org/happy/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15
協會章程：
http://www.happyforum.org/Association_Principle.htm
各分會章程：
http://www.happyforum.org/Club_Principle.htm
協會會員會費及各分會會員會費及入場費：
http://www.happyforum.org/15.htm
參與例會，請自行列印當週的討論文章，並帶至現場
http://www.happyforum.org/happy/viewforum.php?f=33
參與例會，請勿討論政治/種族/宗教/性，經勸導無效者，不得參加本會任何活動
http://www.happyforum.org/happy/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1766
週六晚餐(Saturday Dinner)
http://www.happyforum.org/happy/viewforum.php?f=76
戶外活動(Club Outing)

Dear Taichung Happiers,

Go on. Go on and see what we get. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd9u9N7Z4TU

English, are we using or valuing this language? How wonderful it is to love the language without the adjustment of anything. We learn foreign languages because we want to be aware of the world, and its workings; because we want a new type of mind that employs everything to link everything with everything. Award-winning author and college professor Toni Morrison (February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019) spelled out what language is about. “We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.” Yes, for this weekend, our focus is on the experience of our English learning--it marks powerful moments of our lives. We’ve tried our best to keep true to the dreams of English proficiency, to keep turning the pages, and keep finding next book. Meanwhile, sure enough, we could have lighted the stove with our complaints about the obstruction. Does improving English speaking mean putting a level of significance into every syllable? What English speaking habit have you developed as part of your daily essential? Have you registered any particular accents? Have you imagined your English magically improved, and your words transformed into fluency? Speaking of learning, nothing is insignificant; it’s all a big endless puzzle. We should have what we need in order to win a confidence—what on earth do we need? We don’t know we don’t know until we know we don’t know. That’s what we came here for. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to join us in rising to the challenge of our own responsibility.

We have to acquire some imagination, seeing this world through others’ eyes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wtz0WZSNcPA&app=desktop “It's not sufficient to love a language. That language should love you too.” Wow! Therefore, through total immersion, we’ll feel the frame burning inside. To learn a new language is to learn a new culture. The purpose of a particular language portrays the culture of a particular society. To learn a new language is to learn a new culture. We have a vocabulary of images and concepts that we want to bring things into some kind of succession, although we might not have known what the succession will be. https://www.wikihow.com/Learn-About-Other-Cultures Ohhh... yes, every culture is a good example of smart engineering; however, reading is a great treat for us, which even any ignorance cannot sour. A book is a friend who waits—when we open it, it is a mind that speaks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oviVRMuVgAs Moreover, Taichung Happiers’ best friend Albert Einstein could be a favorite teacher: “Having fun is the best way to learn.” Ahhha, fun… Fun functions as the punctuation. Since fun has a thousand and one faces, what English-learning methods bring us fun, like putting a desert rose in water? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFAmVeCbiA4 Absolutely, when people say, “Make your English sound like music”, we feel like the world promptly proposes a burst of hospitality. While we focus on understanding the construction, we also need to sing up and sing professionally. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQEWEPIHLzQ

Poetry is everyone’s music. A poem is a moment, which seizes a thought; poets are the most modest artists, telling us about how they experience different scores. If they make sense to us, that is all that matters. To make our English sound like music, poetry is a must. https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... lect_Poems French philosopher Gaston Bachelard (27 June 1884 – 16 October 1962) simply put that “A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language” No wonder that the English voices we hear in the museum sound like poetry. No worries. You can decode the music of the prose. https://poets.org According to new research, alcohol helps our foreign language speaking. With or without alcohol, poetry is our tonic. It gives all of us a dose of psychological, emotional, and social truth, and of a call to action. Poetry defines us; poetry defends us. https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/poetry

“Eating Poetry” (By Mark Strand)

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.

The librarian does not believe what she sees.
Her eyes are sad
and she walks with her hands in her dress.

The poems are gone.
The light is dim.
The dogs are on the basement stairs and coming up.

Their eyeballs roll,
their blond legs burn like brush.
The poor librarian begins to stamp her feet and weep.

She does not understand.
When I get on my knees and lick her hand,
she screams.

I am a new man.
I snarl at her and bark.
I romp with joy in the bookish dark.

We are breathed upon by the blessings. Is your confidence in yourself limitless? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqB1jRVw7Bw Steven Pinker, a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and popular science author, gives us a remarkably reassuring feeling. “Obviously no language is innate. Take any kid from any race, bring them up in any culture and they will learn the language equally quickly. So no particular language is in the genes. But what might be in the genes is the ability to acquire language.” For this reason, let us cure ourselves of shyness. Self-confidence keeps us from taking a step backward; self-confidence allows us immovable determination; self-confidence is contagious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjL2m6SLowk Now, look at the mirror—whom do you receive with a round-mouthed stare? You are the best inspiration for yourself. You have been brilliant at it. The best inspiration doesn’t teach—it makes you learn. The blessing has fostered a self-reliant spirit in us, in the disguise of effortless elegance. Build your own system—enjoy it, make it familiar, and make it last. Along the learning journey, inevitable frustration wears away at our patience; nevertheless, if patience isn’t so easily proved, then it is barely a virtue. It’s like, when you build the stage, the show must go on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mLdo4u ... e=youtu.be We are attracted to the learning style that is as transformative as possible. This is what learning is, indeed. By some appealing or anonymous process, learning can turn our lives into something more intense and enduring, and, rather enchanting. If we didn’t follow the flow, we would forever be filled with the echoes of fury and misery. Now, we know how to spell the difference between inspiration and motivation. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36114485

Go on. Go on and see what we get. Everyone will do better. Our eyes will be sweetened by delight and a driven look; our faces will reflect the deepest and particularly developed pleasure. Our pleasure of learning can be quietly lasting. Make our speaking sound like music, sharing the flow, the elegance, and the harmony. Make what we speak a portrait in words—people will melt into our messages by the picture we have given through our words. Make everything we say have more implications, and, more intensity. We have to keep the balance. The bliss is at one end of the see-saw, and is the exact weight against the pull of the barrier at the other end. Let us feel the difference every day. Let us savor the purity of the language and the beauty of imperfection along the learning journey, shall we? Consciousness of construction won’t diminish our delight, only adds to it. We cannot feel helpless as long as we are sitting in Mos, talking to each other, and sharing the soulful and cheerful tune. Let us love and respect learning all our lives. Let our passion spark your passion. Join us. Thanks!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru7gWxqiqR0







With Gratitude,
Jasmine