"But, teacher, English is too difficult. Li Shulin looked at the English textbook and scratched his head wistfully.

Lin Ping said with a smile: "The world's languages are divided into world languages, that is, the simplest languages, including English, French and other pinyin languages, and then more difficult languages, such as Russian, Hindi and German, which require certain pronunciation conditions, and difficult languages, Japanese, Korean, Arabic. And the most difficult language recognized by all countries in the world is our Chinese. ”

"No, how can our Chinese language be the rarest?" several children looked incredulous when they heard this.

"It's true, we don't feel that Chinese is difficult, because we grew up in this language environment, and if you let foreigners learn our Chinese, they will learn to go crazy, and it will be 10,000 times more painful than us. Lin Ping joked, "Actually, when we learn English, we also carry forward the spirit of our friendly international friends, but it's a pity that they can't learn Chinese, right?" ”

Lin Ping thought for a while and said, "Do you know "The Condor Heroes"?"

"Know!" several children said in unison, which surprised Lin Ping.

"Mr. Ma has several books there, including "The Condor Heroes", we have all read them. ”

"Yes, Xiaolongnu and Yang Guo, they will fly the eaves and walk the wall, hey-ha-beat the dog stick method!" Liu Xiangqian said as he mischievously picked up the pen and slapped Feng Xiao's head.

"Liu Xiangqian, you want to die, right?" Feng Xiao counterattacked Liu Xiangqian with his hand.

"Hey, hey, stop! What are you two doing?" Lin Ping hurriedly stopped this behavior that disrupted the class.

"Since you all know "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", let me give you an example of why Chinese is difficult. Lin Ping cleared his throat and said, "The little dragon girl said this, she said: 'Alas, I also want to live the life I have lived'. ”

As he spoke, Lin Ping wrote this sentence on the blackboard.

"Can you understand what this sentence means?" Lin Ping asked.

A few children read it out rather in a twisted way.

"You see, you are very confused when you read it, and foreigners are even more confused when you listen to it. In Chinese, the same word will have different meanings in different situations and different tones. To illustrate this 'meaning', I will write a few 'meanings' on the blackboard, and you can experience what they 'mean'. ”

1 Excuse me.

2 Meaning.

What does 3 mean?

4 That's interesting.

5 I'm sorry about that.

The five children stared at the five sentences on the blackboard with big eyes and touched their heads, and suddenly felt that they could not understand the word "meaning".

"Now you can understand the pain of foreigners learning Chinese, and English is much simpler, his sentence corresponds to a meaning, as long as you recognize the word can be translated, what it means is what it means, and there will not be many meanings. Lin Ping stunned the five children like tongue twisters.

"Teacher, don't say these two words, I'm dizzy now. The naughty Liu Xiangqian fell on the table, as if he was really dizzy.

"In class, who told you to lie down?Straighten up and sit down!" Lin Ping was so serious that he asked Liu Qianqian to sit upright.

"Then teacher," Liu Qingmei asked, "I heard what you mean now, English is used all over the world, and it is simple and easy to understand, does this mean that English is more advanced than our Chinese?"

Lin Ping smiled slightly: "How is it possible? Do you know what the biggest difference between English and Chinese is?"

"One is a letter and the other is a Chinese character?" replied Liu Xiangqian.

Lin Ping laughed: "Of course not, you remember: English is just a language tool, and Chinese is not only a language tool, but also a beautiful art." The calligraphy form of Chinese characters is the only kind of writing art in the world, and the choice of words and sentences of Chinese characters is the only language art in the world. ”

The five children pricked up their ears to listen to Lin Ping's explanation.

Lin Ping wrote two words on the blackboard -

Red.

"Do you know those two words?"

"Yes!" the children replied in unison.

"Do you know what that means?"

The five children didn't speak, and Lin Ping saw that Liu Qingmei wanted to speak and stopped, so he said, "Liu Qingmei, tell me your opinion." ”

Liu Qingmei stood up and thought about it and said, "Teacher, I don't know too much, but I know that there is a word called rolling red dust, and this red dust seems to mean the world?"

"Yes, rolling red dust, you are still a little young now, and you have little knowledge, and you don't know much about red dust. When you read a little more poetry and have a little more experience, you will know the charm of these two words. What is Hongchen? Hongchen does refer to the world, but it is also an artistic conception that cannot be expressed in the world. ”

"Hongchen, you can imagine the world, the traffic is busy, the drizzle is drizzling, and the seven emotions and six desires are like red dust permeating the world. You can also imagine a woman in ancient costume wearing red gauze walking in the smoke and rain in the south of the Yangtze River, an oil-paper umbrella, a pair of light clogs, your eyes look through the rain curtain to look at her hazy back, suddenly, she looks back and smiles, that is, red dust. ”

The five children hooked up that beautiful picture in their minds from Lin Ping's language description, maybe they can't understand what Hongchen is now, but when they grow up, they will know what a beautiful artistic conception it is.

Lin Ping continued: "And what about English? Can it reach this level? Hongchen usually has two translations in English, one is world of mortals, the meaning of mortal world, and the other is paradise, heaven, but no matter how it is translated, it is incomplete, the mortal world loses its beauty, and heaven has no world, and what Hongchen wants to express is precisely the existence that is more beautiful than heaven in the world. ”

"There is no soul, you know, they have no soul when translated, foreigners do not understand the beauty of our Chinese artistic conception, and it is even better to call it red dust directly." Are they better than Chinese? Lin Ping said with a little regret.

"That means that English is easier than Chinese, but it's nowhere near as good as Chinese? Liu Qingmei looked at Lin Ping and asked.

"Yes, you need to learn English well, because it is a universal language tool for the whole world, and it is a tool for you to succeed and go out into the world. But you must learn Chinese well, it is the most beautiful language in the world, it is the realm of cultivating sentiment and washing the soul, and it is a pure land in the depths of our hearts. Lin Ping said with a little literary expression.

"Being born as a son and daughter of China should be the pride of every Chinese. ”