Rewired English

真的很喜歡上Jonathan老師的課程，他讓我終於可以自然開口說英文。他的教學讓我能直覺式的理解文法，邏輯式的單字解析可以自然聯想到適當和正確的文字，並非只是死背單字的意思。不僅只是在學英文的規則，而是真正認識英文為何要這樣說。

從讀書時代就學了多年的英文，但在每次需要派上用場時，卻還是只能當個聆聽者，縱使心中有很多想法想要表達，還是只能止於心中。上過老師的課程後，竟然有一天在聽到英文後自然的用英文應答，終於突破多年來的瓶頸。

現在也還是持續上老師的課中，沒有死讀書的壓力，每堂課與老師和同學們的互動還是收穫滿滿。老師的課程真的很值得。

I am teaching English to junior high school students in a cram school. I always remind myself to keep learning, not only the teaching methods, but also the language. I am glad that I take Teacher Jonathan's class to keep improving English and advance myself. His Parkinson's writing class is very useful for me.

First of all, it cultivates a learning habit by spending five to ten minutes a day. It enables me to practice English every day. Moreover, he corrects my writing, not just the grammar. He helps me understand the differences between English and Chinese based on context, purposes, process and so on. These are the nuances that I didn't pay attention to before. With his teaching, I am able to teach English more confidently and help my students how to use English more effectively.

I also take Teacher Jonathan's pronunciation class. I am very impressed with his professional knowledge and teaching methods. He is able to point out accurately what your pronunciation problems are. He understands typical Taiwanese students' pronunciation mistakes. Before, I thought I just imitated how native speakers speak English, but I still can't pronounce the sounds correctly until I started taking his class. Speaking good English is not only to imitate the sounds, we need to know the tongue placements, mouth shapes, but the most important thing is that we also need to pay attention to the voicing and breathing in order to speak fluently. This is the concept that most English teachers don't mention. Besides, learning the correct pronunciation helps me improve my listening as well. When I talk to native speakers, I can understand most of our conversations now.