"20 to 30 years old, what do you do with this decade" Chapter 07 What to prepare for these 10 years

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"20~30 years old, what do you do with this decade"

Chapter 07: What preparations should be made in these 10 years?

For a player to fit into a whole, it is not enough to be on the field. The language barrier, the inability to communicate with the coach and teammates, the ball certainly can not be played well.

——Zhang Xiaorui

I once had a friend who worked in a three-star hotel as the head of the logistics department.

For the business, he is skillful and concise, and his ability naturally has nothing to say; for the work, he is also serious

Responsibility, and at that time was in his 20s, young and powerful, so the owner of the hotel trusted him and had been around him for many years, and the salary was naturally not thin.

But the friend had one flaw: he didn't speak Mandarin, and the dialect was too heavy. Whenever the hotel executives held meetings, his Mandarin always made the leaders seem to understand and understand.

Every time he called his boss, the first thing he said made his boss cry and laugh. It turned out that the boss's surname was Liao, and the employees up and down the hotel called him "Liao Zong", which was a very common customary honorific title. However, the "Liao Zong" in the mouth of this friend, as soon as he bites his tongue, he becomes "Liao Seed", or "urine". Anyway, whoever listens to it feels that it is not so, and it is uncomfortable to be anywhere, let alone the boss.

If it is an ordinary employee, it is enough, but for a leader at the supervisor level, this has become a fatal shortcoming. The boss did not doubt his business ability at all, but whenever he thought of his "pee seed" that did not dare to compliment, he always had to press the idea of promoting him again. Not speaking Mandarin, for him, although it is unintentional, but it is really unacceptable. Because of this insurmountable obstacle, his promotion naturally became a distant thing.

Today, many years later, this old man is still lying in the position of head of the logistics department, neither rising nor falling. Seeing that everyone else had changed from his subordinates to his superiors, he was in a hurry. Now that he is nearly forty years old, there are old and young, the pressure on his family has doubled, and he has more than enough to change jobs and is not enough. He had to continue to lie here, maybe this is the end of his life.

Not speaking Mandarin will not affect our business ability and enthusiasm for work, but it will definitely affect our communication and communication, which will seriously restrict our development and future.

In this open world, in the era of communication, language is our most basic communication tool. If we don't master these tools well, it will be difficult for us to fit into various circles, and even our survival will be affected.

With the development of the economy, Mandarin has become a relatively common language in China. As a young person in his 20s, being able to speak standard fluent Mandarin has become the minimum requirement for entering society. If we can only speak the local dialect, and the local dialect happens to be a difficult dialect to understand, then from now on, we must make up our minds to learn to speak Mandarin. This is the survival tool we need to enter an unfamiliar city.

Of course, if we determine the city in which we will survive and develop in the future, we can also learn the local dialect of our city in a targeted manner. Because in a city, if we can't even hear a word, if we can't understand it, then how can we talk about survival? What about development?

If we want to survive in this city and truly integrate into this city, we must master the language of this city. This is the basic condition for us to enter a city and a circle of survival. Otherwise, even if we can barely squeeze into a city, it will be difficult to have any big development. In early 1941, in order to escape the invasion of the Japanese army, Li Ka-shing came to Hong Kong with his family. Faced with the reality of survival, his father Li Yunjing began to ask him to "learn to be a Hong Konger" first. To be a Hong Konger, you must first learn the mainstream language of Hong Kong.

In Hong Kong, the popular language is Cantonese, which belongs to the Cantonese dialect, while Li Ka-shing can only speak Chaoshan dialect, which belongs to the southern Fujian dialect and does not communicate with each other. Obviously, if a person does not speak Cantonese in Hong Kong, it will be difficult to move forward. At that time, Hong Kong was still under British colonial rule, and the official language was English, which was also an important communication tool for the upper class of Hong Kong. To make a big difference in Hong Kong, Li Ka-shing must conquer two languages, Cantonese and English.

Since then, Li Ka-shing has regarded learning Cantonese as a top priority. He worshiped his cousin and cousin as a teacher, studied diligently and asked questions, and practiced hard. Because he was young and intelligent, it would not be long before he would speak fluent Cantonese. This made him handy and beneficial in his future sales career and entrepreneurial process. Imagine if he didn't understand Cantonese, not to mention navigating the mall and running freely, even survival would be difficult, let alone making money.

In order to learn English, Li Ka-shing suffered a lot. Every day on his way to and from school, he memorized words as he walked. In the dead of night, he was afraid of affecting his family's rest, so he ran alone to read English under the street lamp outside the house. At dawn, he hurried up and picked up his book to read In English.

After the death of his father, Li Ka-shing had to drop out of school and work everywhere. He first worked in the tea house and then as an apprentice in Zhongnan Company. After more than 0 hours of hard work every day, Li Ka-shing is exhausted, but he still insists on learning English, never stopping.

After several years of hard study, Li Ka-shing finally mastered English proficiently. In the next few decades of shopping mall fighting, English also brought him an immeasurable wealth.

At the critical moment at the beginning of the business, Li Ka-shing directly contacted foreign businessmen with a fluent English and negotiated an order, so that the plastic factory quickly got out of the predicament in a short period of time and achieved rapid development.　

The first take-off of Li Ka-shing's career was due to his proficiency in English. By then, he could easily read the pure English version of the magazine. One day, by chance, he saw a news in the English version of the "Plastic" magazine: in Italy, there is a company designing and manufacturing plastic flowers with plastic raw materials, which is rapidly becoming popular in the European and American markets.

He immediately decided to deal in plastic flowers. By running a plastic flower business, Li Ka-shing is known as the "King of Plastic Flowers" and grabbed the first pot of gold for building a future business kingdom for himself.

As for Li Ka-shing's later expansion of his career to the rest of the world step by step, it is even more inseparable from English. Even today, Li Ka-shing, who is in his late teens, still said in an interview: "I have to watch English TV every night and review English. "With the deepening of China's opening up to the outside world, being able to speak fluent English has become the most basic requirement for new talents." In some places, some people have even put forward the slogan "If you don't know English, you are equal to an illiterate".

It is a bit absolute, but in various universities, English level 4 and level 6 have become a barrier for all non-foreign language students, and it is directly related to our future. In most schools, if you don't get a Certificate iv in English, you won't get a degree certificate or diploma.

At present, if there is a level 6 English certificate, we may be able to find a job a little smoother. If we still want to go further, such as planning to go abroad, a good foreign language foundation is an indispensable hard requirement.

As for the know-how to learn a foreign language, there are many introductions in professional books.

The first thing is to be willing to endure hardships, even those who have a very good sense of language must make a hard effort when learning foreign languages, not to mention those of us who are ordinary people.

Learning language is the basic project of life, even if it is a big difficulty, we must strive to overcome, no matter how we can not let ourselves lose at the starting line.

Secondly, if conditions permit, it is best to watch more original movies, listen to the original word 0 tape, read more original books, communicate with professionals more, even if it is just a simple chat, it will also be of great help to improve our sense of language. In short, practice more, dare to speak, persevere, you will be able to learn a foreign language.

For young people in their 20s, if we are interested in long-term development and find that we are still lacking in language, we must start acting as soon as possible.

After all, the older a person is, the lower the ability to learn a language.

Of course, we must also learn languages according to our actual needs, focus on them, and do what we can.

If we are engaged in business in the future, the requirements for English are not too high, we do not have to hold the dictionary every day to memorize words, we can spend our energy on learning the local language, or the language learning closely related to our own business.

But at the very least, we need to be fluent in standard Mandarin and be able to express it accurately. Otherwise, our mouth is full of tongues, and it doesn't matter if others don't understand it, we can't do anything. Slowly, we become "aliens" and "lonely people", who wants to communicate with us?