小學應該取消英語課嗎？ Should English class be canceled in primary school?

 Today, there isa general discussion about the issue of cancel the English class in primaryschool, because now people in growing number are beginning to realize that we don’tactually use English that much after we graduate from university, except for Englishteacher or translator. Besides, more and more people are inclined to payattention to traditional Chinese literature and virtues.

現在，關於小學取消英語課的問題有廣泛的討論，因爲現在越來越多的人開始認識到其實我們從大學畢業之後並不常用英文，除了英語老師和翻譯。除此之外，越來越多的人傾向於注重中國傳統文學和美德。

People whoagree with cancel the English class argue that there are too many Chinesepeople do not know about Chinese traditional literature and virtues, all theycare about is foreign literature and foreign language. It might lead to a decayof Chinese traditional literature. What’s more, now parents are care too muchfor money making, they ignore the education of Chinese traditional virtues tochildren, lots of young students doesn’t know what exactly it is. People thinkwe should cancel English class and open course of the Chinese traditionalliterature and virtues.

同意取消英語課的人爭辯說現在有太多的中國人不懂中國文學和美德了，他們關心的都是外國文學和外語。這有可能會引起中國文學的衰退。再者，現在父母太重視賺錢，他們無視掉對孩子的中國美德教育，很多年輕的學生根本就不懂那是什麼。人們認爲我們應該取消英文課，再開設中國傳統文學和美德的課程。

People whoagainst cancel English class hold the opinion that the best age of learningforeign language is in primary school, when people are getting old, age-relateddeclines in memory and the ability to process information quickly. Incidentally,people advocate in line with international standards, since English has beenwidely used as a second language in many countries, we will have a big chanceto use it in some way. Hence, we should learn it when we are young, or we willfind it hard after we grow up.

反對取消英文課的人認爲小學時學習外語的最佳年齡，當人們長大，年齡會讓記憶力下降，處理信息的能力也會減緩。順帶一提，人們都提倡和國際接軌，英語被許多國家廣泛第作爲第二語言使用，我們還是很有可能在某個方面用到英語的。因此，我們應當在我們年輕時候學習英語，不然我們長大後就會發現很難學了。

On the whole, Ithink we should not cancel English class in primary school. As to the Chinesetraditional literature issue, we could open a course about that, so that our elementaryschool students can learn both.

總體來說，我認爲小學不應該取消英語課。對於中國傳統文學這個問題，我們可以開設這類課程，這樣我們的小學生兩種知識都能學到了。