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比爾·蓋茨後悔沒做甚麼?

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如果你未聽過 Reddit 的 AMA,你一定會覺得好有趣。Reddit是一個書籤網站,其中一處為AMA (Ask Me Anything) 即「問我任何問題」的環節邀請名人新貴使用一個普通名字來回答問題。近日,世界首富在AMA做了三個問題。我見到第一個問題他這樣回應:

嗨比爾,我的問題:

「在你生命中,有甚麼事你後悔做或沒有做?」

他的回答是:

我覺得自己非常愚蠢因為我不懂得任何外語。高中時我曾修讀拉丁文和希臘文而且取得A級成績,我猜它們幫助我理解和運用詞彙,但我更希望學習法語,阿拉伯語或中文。我一直希望有時間研究其中的一個,可能是法文,因為它是最容易的。我曾經使用Duolingo一段時間但並未能堅持下去。令人驚訝的是,馬克·.扎克伯格學懂了普通話,還與中國學生進行問答環節,真是不可思議!

當我知道在香港有很多人學習英語作為第二種語言或與外國人溝通的主要語言,我鼓勵你行多一步— 認真地學習並把它應用在日常生活

多年之後,你就不會像比爾·蓋茨般後悔。

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What Bill Gates Regrets not doing

bill gates redditIf you haven’t heard of Reddit’s AMA,  you wouldn’t be alone.  The bookmark website has a section which invites celebrities and high profile names along with more regular “Joes” and “Janes” from around the world to be “asked anything.”  AMA stands for “Ask Me Anything.”  Recently, the richest man in the world did his 3rd Reddit AMA.  In the first question I saw, he responded to the question:

Hi Bill, my question: Is there anything in life that you regret doing or not doing?

His response:

I feel pretty stupid that I don’t know any foreign languages. I took Latin and Greek in High School and got A’s and I guess it helps my vocabulary but I wish I knew French or Arabic or Chinese. I keep hoping to get time to study one of these – probably French because it is the easiest. I did Duolingo for awhile but didn’t keep it up. Mark Zuckerberg amazingly learned Mandarin and did a Q&A with Chinese students – incredible.

While I realize many of you here in Hong Kong learn English as a second language or “foreign language” to some, I would encourage you to be even one step better: take another language under your belt and take it seriously.

Many years later, you won’t regret it … like Bill Gates did.

 

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