Nonsense English

Author: Zhang Yuanxia
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Publish Date: 2002-08-01
Features: This book is a secret weapon introduced by Dr. Zhang Yuanxia, a U.S. psychology postdoctoral fellow. The author himself moved from a level where he couldn't understand or speak English to bravely stepping into the Illinois Institute of Psychology in the U.S. to teach doctoral students. During this time, he risked everything and spoke English using only a few hundred words, unexpectedly achieving remarkable results. After three months of lectures, his teaching received high praise from the students, with some even writing on the evaluation forms: "Dr. Zhang is highly knowledgeable, witty, and a rare gem in the academy." Inspired by the success of his speech, Dr. Zhang wrote Speak English Like Crazy. In the book, he critiques all the conventional English teaching materials in China: correct, standard, natural, and flawless, but difficult to learn. He believes that most people's methods of learning English are wrong, mistaking it for a scholarly pursuit that tortures themselves, while forgetting that the purpose of learning English is for communication. The book summarizes the shortcut for Chinese people to communicate in English as "3": Use simple English, in a fluent way, to express complex ideas."