案例学习:如果英语是你我的母语笔者何震当年到美国留学时,常常能听到“老留学生们”相互抱怨说:“英语不是咱们中国人的母语,咱们在美国吃了大亏了!”言下之意是说,如果我们中国人的母语是英语,那么我们在美国会生活得比美国人强很多。开始我也比较赞同这种观点,毕竟语言表达的差异,让别人很难真正了解我们的能力。不过时间一长,当我与美国人和当地华人相处久了,感到上述观点并不完全正确。因为不同的社会文化环境、人文环境,造就不同类型的人。从另外一个文化环境中来的人,都 Case study: If English is your mother tongue, then when the author visited the United States to study in the US, he could often hear “old overseas students” complaining to each other: “English is not the mother tongue of the Chinese and we eat big in the United States. Loss!" The implication is that if we Chinese are native speakers of English, then we will live much better in the United States than Americans. At the beginning, I also agree with this view. After all, the difference in language expression makes it difficult for others to truly understand our capabilities. However, over time, when I lived with Americans and local Chinese for a long time, I feel that this is not entirely true. Because of different social, cultural and human environments, different types of people are created. People from another cultural environment are