许多中国人花了很多时间在这个看到就头疼的英语上，只为了考试，成绩却常常一塌糊涂。如果只有外来的压力，学习效果就不会好到哪儿去。源自内心的动力是必需的。
Improving Your Motivation for Learning English
Remember there is a lot that you don’t know
You are good, but your English probably isn’t perfect. You probably can’t understand English language TV, read books in English, talk to native speakers easily, write letters without mistakes, etc.
Even if you are the best student in your class, always try to find your weak areas and work on them. When you’ve learned to speak English well, your problems will be quite small: punctuation, rarely used grammar structures, rare words, understanding “street language”. Right now, your problems are probably more basic: mistakes in pronunciation, small vocabulary, grammar problems with the present perfect tense and conditional structures.
Use your English whenever you can
The more you use English, the more you will want to learn it. Because English is so popular, you can use it everywhere.① You can use Google to find English?language websites with interesting information, you can watch American cartoons, you can play adventure games on your computer, you can read interesting books in English, or you can do other things that we write about.②
If you do these things, you will not only have fun and learn English. If you see that a new English word lets you understand your favorite TV show (or communicate with people, or beat a computer game), you will want to learn more words. So you will learn English more, use it more, learn it more, use it more... If you also use effective learning methods, your English will grow faster than you can imagine.
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记住你还有很多不懂的东西
你现在很不错，但是你的英语很有可能达不到非常出色的程度。你很可能还听不懂英语电视节目，读不懂英语书，不能很容易地与以英语为母语的人谈话，不能没有丝毫错误地写英文信，等等。
即使你是班里最好的学生，也要经常努力去发现你的弱势并且多下功夫。当你的英语已经说的相当好时，你的问题就小多了：标点符号，很少被使用的语法结构，不常见的单词，理解“街道语言”。现在，你的问题很可能就更基础性了：发音上的错误，词汇量小，现在完成时和条件结构从句的语法问题。
你使用的英语越多，你就会越想学习英语。因为英语是如此普及，你在任何地方都可以使用它。你可以使用百度或者Google去搜索那些有有趣信息的英语网站，你可以看美国卡通，你可以用电脑玩冒险游戏，你可以读有趣的英文书，或者你还可以做其他这里写到的事情。
如果你做这些事，你将不仅仅获得乐趣和对英语的学习。如果你发现一个新的英文单词使你理解了你最喜爱的电视节目(或者是与人们交往，或者是玩一个电脑游戏)，你就会想学到更多的单词。因此你将要学习更多的英语，更多地使用英语，再更多地学习它，再更多地使用它…如果你还使用有效的学习方法，你的英语水平将会进步很快，甚至超乎你的想象。