得中文者得天下——对外语专业学生的一个忠告

Nothing Matters More Than a Good Command of the Chinese Language: A Piece of Advice for Foreign Language Students

中文是一切学科的基础,对外语学科来说,是基础的基础,甚至可以说,得中文者得天下。可惜中文并未引起足够重视,多少影响了外语学习。文章建议采取适当措施,加强中文教学,引导外语学生把中文学好,使中文与外语相得益彰。

A good command of the Chinese language is essential for students of all disciplines and all the more so for those learning foreign languages. Language learning is,in a way,interrelated. Mastery of Chinese contributes to the learning of English. Likewise,a good English learner is very often buttressed by his high cultivation of the Chinese language. In this sense,a good command of Chinese makes everything else simple for language learners,and foreign language students have no reason whatsoever to ignore the Chinese language. But what happens in real life causes concern. The students’ Chinese is far below the standard,which in return impairs their study of English,and therefore calls for measures to be taken to improve the situation. It is time,this article emphasizes,that enough attention was given to the study of the Chinese language. To sum up,a good command of Chinese means everything.