《回應連登仔 能者多努 話我英文廢，憑咩教人》

一定有followers話，Tiffany其實你已經做得好好，唔需要為呢啲hater煩心。我知道。但我想藉此討論下香港學英文風氣嘅問題，因為香港學英文同教英文嘅風氣真係好有問題。

1）50000人follow就算上位？
Po主好介意我英文咁廢，都有50000幾60000人訂閱我channel。

唔好傻啦，我地啲片平均幾千到萬幾人睇，其實我有咩影響力丫。

2）我唔係聖人，我英文都會錯。
的確，睇番你改我篇文，如果我唔寫could have spent呢一句，文句的確會容易明啲。其實我當時係想講could have spent more wisely；再加上當時寫文係DSE之後，我覺得學生本身可以花喺理解英文嘅時間花咗喺背誦度，所以我先咁寫。

Inculcate呢個字我用得唔好，其實講cultivate或者foster會好好多，brain fog寫錯，多謝你指正。

曾經有學生同我講software唔加s，我先突然恍然大悟省起，係wor，software唔加s。

我冇話自己勁，亦冇話自己唔會錯，不過我可以將生活裡面都八九成思考嘅嘢，都可以同舒服用英文講。我覺得呢樣嘢，比起錯唔錯緊要好多。

3）有時算錯定唔算錯，係主觀嘅

“能者多努”話我唔可以講Teachers either don’t have the time, resources, permission, or expertise (cultural, literary and general knowledge)Teachers either don’t have the time, resources, permission, or expertise (cultural, literary and general knowledge) to
foster real and two-way interchange among students. They resort to imparting knowledge through lecturing,
to make English lessons interesting, engaging or even exciting.

因為either or只可以跟either A or B，其實喺informal contexts，好多人都會講either A, B, C or D。呢篇文只係一篇listacles，我簡單抒發己見，唔預學生睇，當我要教either or呢個conjunction我當然唔會舉either A, B, C or D咁嘅例子。

就好似both呢個字，傳統想要講Both A & B，如果要講三個或以上items，理論上要講all A, B and C。但現代英文裡面，大家都會講 both A, B and C。

如果你大學有讀descriptivism同prescriptivism嘅分別，應該會明白。

4）Youtube同社交媒體都係產業，我好相信quality follows quantity，所以我每個禮拜都出緊大量內容

或者你會覺得咁樣係誤人子弟，但我好相信我每出一篇文同一條片，學生都係係咁綺larp兩眼，因為我地世界步伐太快，佢地唔會當我每條片同每篇文章係精讀篇章咁「倫」。

當我每個禮拜都推出內容，我出咩錯嘅時候自然就會有觀眾出黎指正我，呢樣嘢我不嬲都好歡迎，我會心心晒佢地啲comment。

當一個禮拜出緊>5 Medium文；3套Youtube片；2集podcast；2篇email newsletter同>10嘅IG post嘅時候，雖然我儘量避免，但忙中有錯係必然。

如果你覺得能夠做到咁樣製作內容嘅速度，加上有你滿意嘅英文水平嘅人，可以喺Youtube出樣教英文？如果你識得有咁嘅人，希望你介紹比我識。

5）回應世界英文資源咁多，多我一個唔多；少我一個唔少

我自己好相信我嘅分享有用；而我呢個信念亦得到我好多嘅followers確認，我先會繼續做落去。

如果我冇我嘅存在價值，我相信好難做到多人訂閱。因為Youtube係一個競爭激烈嘅空間，演算法係民主嘅。有英文channel係教英文嘅，但好多都係用普通話或者英文。English with Lucy、Papa Teach me、English Like A Native，普通話嘅有阿滴英文等等，呢啲頻道我全部都有睇，佢地當然有佢地嘅作用。但我覺得自己channel嘅價值在於聯繫香港同亞洲文化落英文度，我覺得咁先可以令學生原本唔鍾意英文，變成發現英文同佢地有興趣嘅嘢其實好有關係。

有一句說話係咁講嘅：No one can do what you do, the way you do it。唔好成日集中精神喺人地叻唔叻，留意下人地幫唔幫到人。呢個世界已經夠黑暗，可唔可以欣賞下會攞個心出黎幫人嘅人，幫唔幫到人，而唔係人地有冇資格；叻唔叻？

6）呢個世界唔係你踩其他人，人地就會認同你叻
就算我同其他教英文嘅人，包括蕭叔叔、阿滴英文、馬米高、English Lesson for Freedom、Miss Charlotte、哥倫布等等嘅教學理念未必完全一樣，我從來冇走去踩佢地。

如果一定要搵，每個人嘅英文同知識面都一定會搵到可以挑剔嘅地方，但係咪代表我需要搵佢地錯誤出黎挑機同批評？

我從來冇咁做，除咗因為我focus on我自己做好之外，因為我知道佢地做嘅嘢最起碼都係啱多於錯；幫到人多於害到人。

我唔會嘗試批評佢地，顯出我自己幾叻，無論佢地教英文係為興趣定牟利都好，我覺得最緊要大家個mission有意義；做嘅範疇係自己鍾意，能力範圍內儘量做好，已經好好。

7）你話我屋邨英文水平，唔同我有IB同拔萃學生黎搵我教佢地Eng lit，又同你講咩？

又唔通，我走去Youtube教IB英文咩？會唔會有人睇？會唔會有說服力？唔通我UE A CE 5*又同你不斷同你講咩。

唔同有band 1學生走黎比我我幫佢地出mock卷，我又同你講？

有咩意思？

人地只覺得我精英主義同show quali。

8）香港，需要唔怕錯，勇於表達嘅老師

我覺得香港嘅老師真係好怕錯；學生都係，當老師咁怕錯，點說服學生唔怕錯？

因為香港太多鍾意品評其他人英文嘅唔出樣但寸寸貢嘅鍵盤戰士，所以好多英文老師怕比人捉到錯處，而唔拍片。再加上Youtube動輒會有幾廿萬人睇到你犯錯，好多人都承受唔到呢個心理壓力。

我曾經去過香港Google嘅event同教師分享點做Youtube，我覺得就係呢種熱愛批評嘅態度，令到好多教育工作者都唔敢拍片。

英文，唔應該係用黎突顯自己英文有幾叻；自己有幾叻；英文係一個工具比我地更加豐富咁表達自己同睇呢個世界。

9）我冇睇唔起香港嘅日校英文老師，請你唔好亂咁解讀。
我話明好多英文老師冇時間培養香港學生對英文嘅興趣，因為好多時學校冇呢個自由度比佢地；至於expertise，一定有啲老師都係喺expertise上面有欠缺的，只不過呢個唔代表呢個一定係佢地錯，又或者佢地就係好廢，又或者我睇唔起佢地。

10）英文裡面，溝通裡面，grammar唔係唔重要，pronunciation唔係唔重要，但仲有更加重要嘅，係attitude，同識得match番溝通嘅objective同埋講嘢方式

我成日都講beyond grammar；例如歌詞裡面嘅smile a little smile；Star Trek裡面嘅To boldly go where no one has gone before；蘋果嘅think different；麥當勞嘅I’m loving it，因為我知道rules are made to be broken。grammar只係達意嘅工具，最重要係你用嘅語言同你溝通嘅objective match。我唔覺得你有領會一點，一個人英文叻唔叻唔係在於一個人寫嘢有幾正確；而係在於佢嘅語言可以達到幾versatile/wide-ranging嘅objectives同purposes。

例如一個人識得用英文寫DSE文章或者office嘅email，唔代表識得寫blog posts；識得寫詩；識得拍Youtube video。我喺寫作上面，一直都experiment緊，以前都有幫人寫詩，自己寫literary essays，唔係淨係你講嘅Medium文。

Attitude方面，我一直都覺得香港學生（正如林沛理所講），淨係留喺read for information，未做到read for style、賞識英文呢個境界，亦有好多學生對英文冇興趣，只係當英文係生存嘅工具，咁樣係好難學好英文，只會搵捷徑（例如將好多時間投資喺考試技巧）同囫圇吞棗咁背詞語/句式。

11）Medium係我碎碎念嘅地方
我日日都寫Medium文，我寫Medium文多過我屙屎，好多都唔打算係比學生精讀嘅，更莫講或中學生。如果你睇我嘅中文文章，或者同樣係錯漏百出，但我嘅文係寫比讀者略讀嘅，每日當專欄咁寫，我唔覺錯有咩大不了。

能者多努，如果你仍然想批評，可以批評埋我喺Medium寫嘅其他英文文章，唔好淨係執我篇Listacle；同埋唔好喺連登出post問人有冇見過女仔屙尿，咁樣只會顯得你心理變態。

I am not the brightest; I am not the smartest. But I show up for my audience. That's what that matters.

Medium原文link：https://medium.com/@tiffanysuen/whats-wrong-with-hong-kongs-english-education-14bf7d0ca73f

LIHKG原link：https://lihkg.com/thread/2005909/

［記於香港戒嚴日常］

沒有明言是戒嚴，但實質便是了。而且更可怕。黑警隨意上巴士，地鐵各種交通工具，私人屋苑商場濫捕市民。亂打市民亂搜身。

昨日我回母校開舊生大會，門口附近有30 防暴幾架警車，老師立刻提醒大家離開時要千萬小心。眾人包括我都緊張，有舊生說等一下一起繞後路走。
這便是普通市民見到警方的反應！有警察便有暴力濫權，阻你行街一言不合便拘捕甚至毆打等各種不合理之事。擾民之極。
好離譜。大家都好驚見到情緒失控不守法濫權濫刑又無法追究投訴的黑警。

「車，你好人好姐無犯法驚咩」是不少藍絲或撐警者的一直以來的口頭禪。但兩個多月以來，幾多街坊穿校服的學生被打至頭破血流被無理拘捕。
麗晶花園居民返自己屋企都被捕。簡直荒謬。
現在香港是警暴城市，無限時宵禁戒嚴。

我們大班舊生只不過回母校聚舊開會，但警方這兩個月的胡作非為，已經令人心惶惶。是啊，我們守法怕什麼。但你跟不守法，知法犯法，濫用權力的有牌爛仔警暴講法，會有用嗎？

起初撤回逃犯修訂條例，是香港人不相信中共貪污與毫無法治。
想堅守香港的獨立法治與言論自由。

香港現在還未送中，甚至柒婆林鄭剛說撤回條例，但過去兩個月，香港的淪陷是過去二十年的總和。在香港發生的一切警方暴力，已跟中共沒甚麼兩樣。

林鄭一方面以退為進，欺騙外媒，希望攪散運動甚至美國人權法案，一方面繼續高壓打壓示威者。甚至今日的機場行動，警暴繼續恐嚇騷擾遊客。
到底黑警有什麼權力不讓市民坐巴士地鐵？以涉嫌違反什麼的罪名隨意趕人下車命令市民在公眾地方打開行李箱？

我連坐巴士去東涌的自由竟然都沒有？
對，在現在的港共政權下，香港人的確這樣的自由都沒有。坐巴士都要冒被捕的風險。

星期一台灣友人來港轉機，想出來玩一天。很感謝他在這樣的時勢下還願意花一天出來看看香港，他說維港很美他想去。
可惜現在警暴什麼荒唐無理的事都能做得出來，我怕他回不去機場接下一班機。香港戒嚴，跟很多第三世界戰地差不多，跟他說還是不要出來為妙。我沒有信心可以保證他們的安全。這是何其悲哀憤怒傷心的心情。是啊，本來維港很美。 可惜我們現在只能以淚目模糊的眼光去看，這個不知道還能維持多久的美麗海港。

另外，831 太子事件，無記者真空兩小時，雖港台說已查出三名傷者下落；但憑黑警過去所作所為，消防署口供又改來改去，唔好意思，我唔信。寧願炒車，希望手足無事。
而事件其實橫跨9月1號，港鐵應該原原本本將831 至整段封站時期的cctv都保留與公開才是！怕是已有關鍵時刻被隱藏煙滅。

而當日較早前在維園，發現疑有陀槍警員扮成示威者，甚至開真槍。其實極為嚴重危險，一定要追究。太子無故封站極可疑，疑有人以此發大來攪再蓋過所有焦點。
兩單都要繼續追。

外地的朋友們，我特意用書面語好好寫（最近好中意用廣東話寫野哈哈），希望你們明白，為什麼香港人不接受前幾天的假撤回。我們沒有贏啊。

由反送中翻起的巨浪，將潛藏已久的黑暗腐爛全揭開，環環相扣，所以是五大訴求，缺一不可！

Worse than the Martial Law: Hong Kong has become a police state, trampling of personal freedom will become a common phenomenon

Chitchat Philosophy:
"I would like to make a statement to everyone here. The consequences of police’s abuse of force may be far severe than the implementation of the martial law by the government, and would pose devastating consequences to the daily lives of Hong Kongers. But why?

When the martial law is imposed, the extreme measures/actions will taken by the police force, and the foundation of their power comes from the official announcement of the government stating that the society has fallen into a state of chaos, and hence granting more power for the police to stabilize the society. When order is restored, the power of the police would be revoked.
But what does it imply when the police display absurd level of violence without bearing any consequences even the martial law is not imposed? It means that all the actions executed by the police would set a precedent on what would be seen as “normal” and “a common phenomenon” in the future.

Up until now, Hong Kong police could unreasonably inspect, arrest and beat up citizens. They could patrol in major public traffic interchange, metro stations, outsides secondary schools to monitor students. And all of these actions could be understood as “normal” and “regular measures”.

As of today, the personal freedom of Hong Kong citizens will be seriously infringed. Because such infringement and violation of freedom are not granted under legal basis or regular procedures, it implies that Hong Kongers would have to suffer from such a “common phenomenon”. They would live under the terror of the abuse of power and violence by the police, and are unable to investigate into the situation and hold the police accountable under the current system.

Carrie Lam would not dare implement martial law because the government is unwilling to bear the consequences of such a measure, such as rocking the economy which further angers the general public. Therefore she chose to allow Hong Kong fall into anarchy, turning a blind eye and hence allowing the police to do whatever they want.

Because there are no regular procedures, the police do not have to be accountable for any legal responsibilities. Because Carrie Lam avoids the responsibility of being judged by history for her crimes under the name of the government, she has destroyed the rule of law and basis of regulations, and turned Hong Kong to a police state. The consequences of her actions are devastating."

Source: https://chitchitphilosophy.blogspot.com/2019/09/Policestate-in-HK-NOW-Anti-Extradition-Bill-Protest.html?m=1

【里斯本的地鐵指示】
【Metro signs @ Lisbon】

在里斯本搭乘地鐵非常方便, 每個地鐵站的站內多處都有行車路線表清楚顯示站名稱和轉車站的站名, 而較大的地鐵站例如 Oriente 和 Jardim Zoológico, 由於可接駁火車和巴士, 另有白色底藍色字體的告示牌, 以葡萄牙文 Comboios 和 Terminal Autocarros 分別表示: 火車和巴士總站/客運總站, 而字旁也有圖形，所以就算不懂葡萄牙文都大概能明白文字意思。

The metro system of Lisbon is very user-friendly. Various route signs are installed at each metro station, which show clearly station names of each of the four metro lines and interchange stations. As such metro stations as Oriente and Jardim Zoológico are connected to train and bus terminals, another set of signs (with white background and blue words) written in Portuguese can be seen: “Comboios” and “Terminal Autocarros” mean "Trains" and "Bus terminus" respectively. The figures of a train and a bus next to the words are indeed quite self explanatory.