Having been an English major for almost 3 years, I have witnessed many of my classmates, who started their freshman year with a crush on English, gradually had their passion degenerated into loathing and antipathy. Fortunately, English still charms me like an enchanting beauty, and I enjoy the learning so much so that I can never have enough of it.

　　If you ask me how come that English never ceased to attract me, I could only quote from Shakespeare, and tell you that “so long as men can breathe or eyes can see”, so long lives this beauty. English, just like Chinese or any other language, is a marvelous beauty, and the failure to realize this would take all the joy away from our learning.

　　Reflecting upon my past experience, I find the integration of my personal interests into English learning not only enjoyable but emancipating as well.

　　I’m a girl with a restless mind, who likes to gives my wild imagination a free reign, or no reign at all. Therefore watching movies is the pastime that I prefer the most, and Hollywood never fails to amaze me with its capability for innovation. May it be the Lion King or the Transformer, I feel compelled to listen to the original dubbing rather than the translated version, and not just listen for once, but rather 3 or 4 or even a dozen times. The voice of king Mufasa is so magnetic, the lines are so well written that only the repetition will enable me to fully appreciate them. Then there comes a point where the sound in my heart I bore, long after it was heard no more. All the new words or phrases no longer seem to be daunting, because the memorizing process has been made much less arduous, thanks to the vivid context.

　　“Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance.” “To make each day count.” Such witty lines are still fresh in my mind today, and they always came in handy when I was doing the multiple-choice. For example, what kind of inflectional verb goes with the noun “everyone”? Many times my English teacher told me about the grammar rule ---“everyone” should be followed by a third-person singular verb, I only came to its mastery after the father king “taught” me this sentence. And every time when I think about the relationship between human beings and nature, this line will jump out and reminds me of a simple but important principle.

　　What I get from this learning experience is more than some polished language skills. Looking beyond that, I find myself landed in a whole new world, where English has granted me a special “passport”, allowing me to explore a different culture, giving me another point of view.

　　So far it has been a beautiful ride, east and west meets here, abridged by English, and I’m determined to go on.