沒有語言環境的外語學習，掌握語法知識很重要，尤其是對成年人。有人說，我們小時候說母語並未專門學習語法知識，不是一樣說得很流利嗎？的確如此。幼兒通過大量接觸語言而獲得了語感，其實從某種程度上講，語感中包括一定的語法規則。不經意間，母語的語法規則就在我們大腦的語言區域建立了神經聯繫。而重新學習一門外語時，為了避免與我們的母語相沖突，在學習過程中，不斷地理解語法規則是不可或缺的。一些外語學習者在語法上花太多的時間，記住了無數的規則，然而這些人仍然說不好外語。
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誠然，語法是語言規律的總結，然而，語言又是一門實踐性很強的學科。就如開車一樣，即使一個人“交規”爛熟於胸，但駕駛技術不過關，比如：超車不果斷，倒車入不了位，對“狀況”處理不及時......仍然不是好司機。所以呢，英語學習中，詞彙量、習慣短語表達法是真功夫。
語法知識不是科學知識，不像數學、物理那樣，規則非常精確，語法規則很少沒有例外。英語是複數語言，但複數的構成形形色色，比如：one person, two persons; 但one man, two men 或者 one leg, two legs; 但one foot, two feet，而有one sheep, two sheep…因此，英語不能就像學數學那樣推理，為每句話找個語法根據。一個好的學習英語的方法是：大量的語言接觸，再加上語法幫助。
以下這段文字是Karen關於何為精神真正依靠的的論述，對一般美國民眾9.11後的精神狀況做了分析。
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Your example of “what is faith” is very interesting. I thought about it quite a bit. I think, in fact, that what you described is very much how many people, including many “Christians” treat God…like something to be used when something goes wrong. Many people seek God, seek Jesus Christ, when they are confronted with a tragedy, something beyond what they can bear. And often God answers these cries for help. But after such prayers are answered, it seems to me that there are different responses. One reaction is to reach for the support of the handrail (God; Jesus Christ) only until the bus (our life) is moving along smoothly again….then let go and depend on one’s own efforts again. People who pray this way and get an answer to their prayer then explain the answer to their prayers …as “coincidence” …or in some other way that denies God. This is what happened in America after 9/11…many people cried out to God, but several months later, after everything had settled down, were again living their lives without God. This isn’t the real Faith that Jesus Christ talked about.
quite a bit，表示多，Karen喜歡用這個短語。
confronted with a tragedy，面對災難。
it seems to me that...，這樣的短語句型很地道，比較委婉。
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Coincidence，巧合，巧事。Karen認為9.11不應該被認為是一件偶然事件，她從2004年離開美國後，一直沒有回過美國，在中國生活工作八年後，又前往非常貧窮落後的秘魯傳道，那裡連自來水和電都要定時供應。她告訴我，穿兩條褲子還是被蚊子咬，只有吃pawpaw（木瓜）使身體上產生一種特殊的氣味，這樣，蚊子進攻才少些。秘魯的政治也不穩定，各派、各部落經常交火，留下了許多孤兒和寡婦。Karen在那裡做的一項中工作就是幫助那些失去父親的孩子以及失去丈夫的婦女恢復生存的能力。
