How many Mainland Chinese can learn English to the level that we can? A very small percentage. They are using Mandarin all the time, they will lose their English. I will give you an example. I used to meet the Taiwanese ministers, the older generation - all Harvard PhDs. In other words, they wrote their theses in English but worked in Taiwan in Mandarin. When I went to Taiwan, I spoke to them in Mandarin, first two days (my Mandarin was) very stiff. At the end of the week, I was more fluent. They came here to meet people from our ministries, first two days their English was halting, at the end of the week they became more fluent.

　　在内地，有多少我国人英语能和大家说的一样好？（李光耀受英语教育培训，以优异的成绩从牛津大学法律专业大学毕业。）很少。她们每日都应用汉语，英语水准便会减少。我举个事例。我见过*台湾一些老一辈的科长们，全是哈佛大学的博士研究生。她们的论文是用英文写的，但在*台湾工作中时，她们应用汉语。我*台湾的情况下，我与她们说中文，逐渐的一两天，我的汉语十分生涩。类似一周后，我讲的更流畅了。当她们来马来西亚和大家的科长会面时，最开始一两天他们的英文说的结结巴巴，但类似一个礼拜就流畅多了。

　　2. 流畅比英语词汇量更关键

　　Learn young, never mind the standard, capture the fluency, capture the way you speak it, capture the grammar, never mind if your vocabulary is limited, you can expand it later on.

　　从中小学起，别在乎是不是规范，勤奋说的顺畅，学好表达形式，恰当应用英语的语法，不必在意英语词汇量太少，之后会扩张的。

　　3. 多张口才可以以不变应万变

　　You need to spend the time and effort. You must have the interest. At the end of the day, it must be a live language. Apart from watching it on the TV or reading the newspapers, you must meet people and talk. Then it is a live language.

　　你需要花时间和活力。一定要有兴趣爱好。说到底，务必在日常生活中应用語言。除开看电视剧和看报，你务必和大家沟通交流。这才算是活的語言。

　　4. 从中小学語言还记得更牢

　　Language is heard and spoken long before people learn to write and to read. The more frequently one uses a language, the easier it is to express one's thoughts in it. The younger one learns to speak a langugae, the more permanently it is remembered.

　　大家学好读写能力一种語言以前好长时间便会听闻。一个人应用一种語言越经常，就越非常容易用它来表答。语言学习的年龄越小，就越不容易忘记。

　　5. 西学为体，初中为用

　　I may speak the English language better than I speak the Chinese language because I learnt English early in life. But I'll never be an Englishman in a thousand generations and I have not got the Western value system inside me; it's an Eastern value system with the western value system superimposed.

　　我的英文大约比汉语好，由于我自小就学习英文。但不管再过多少年，我还不容易是个英国，我并沒有接纳西方*价值观念。我的人生观是含有西方*颜色的修真价值观念。