一天，李雷碰见了牵着娃逛街的韩梅梅
李雷："Hello,Meimei!"
韩梅梅：啥玩意儿？一段时间没见在这跟我装海归呢！！
（李雷内心是崩溃的……）
李雷：额，哈哈。不是，最近在思考一个事。
韩梅梅：啥事啊？
李雷：你看啊：我们大多数人都是从初中开始学习英语，到高中、大学，直至毕业工作。应该很多人和我一样，工作后就把英语放下了，甚至在大学时考完四六级就已经放下了。我们多数人的英语水平大家自己心里都清楚，能读明白外文报纸的人很少吧？更别提口语流畅到和歪果仁闲话家常了吧！
韩梅梅：好啦好啦，这我们都知道，快别废话了，直接说你想干哈吧！
李雷：咳咳，我想说我要把英语拾起来，我要和歪果仁一样交谈……
韩梅梅：你脑子抽抽了吧！没事干刷个抖音乐哈哈滴，你瞎折腾啥啊？
（李雷内心的OS：呃，看来时间让我们越来越没法一起交流了，算了结束这个话题吧！）
李雷：额，好吧。带着孩子遛弯呢！！！
李雷回家后自己一个人的内心独白
哎！不管别人怎么看吧，自己决定的事自己一个人走下去吧。不和身边人解释，这么做只是为了更好的自己……
于是李雷独自开始了自己的英语重拾之路
”茫茫英语路该从哪里开始呢？“李雷自己问自己。他突然想到之前看过的一本书的介绍，于是就在网上找到书的电子版看看。
A FEW WARNING WORDS
In this book you will find many bits of advice and information that you have not found elsewhere. I shall write in the light of my own experience and in the belief that what I say will be of practical use to you, and I hope that you will find it really usefull.
Here I will say a few warning words. I say "Warning Words", mind. I fell that most Chinese students of English--including you perhaps--need warning.
First of all, I have to warn you against spending money and time on books that profess to teach you something but really teach you nothing. There is no royal road to the mastery of English. You cannot master English in three years, still less in three months. You cannot learn composition by reading about some rules of composition. You cannot acquire the ability to write correct English by reading an outline of grammar. Don't imagine that every author of a composition book or a grammar can himself write a composition or write correct English.
Secondly, I have to warn you against resprcting persons. You learn English;you learn the English of the English people, not the English of a few professors and Ph.D.'s. You will do better to read a third-rate English novel by an unknown author than read any treatise by a Ph.D. who knows more about the way the English people eat or swim than the way they write.
Thirdly, I have to warn you against trying to be "literary" or "classical". You should aim at a clear and idiomatic style, but not at any "literary" or "classical" beauty. You may have considerable literary talent or even genius. But you cannot possibly express it in English before you can write clear and idiomatic English.
Fourthly, and lastly, I have to warn you against confining yourself to a few school-books. You cannot master English without reading widely. By "reading widely" I mean the reading of not only books and magazines and newspapaers but also anything else in English that you may come across. A poster or a signboard may teach you some practical English that you cannot learn from another source.
看完第一篇李雷若有所感……原来学了这么多年英语，路子错了 ！！！
