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There were twenty-six freshmen learningmajoringtrainingspecializing majoring in English at Beijing Language Institute in the class of 1983, I was assigned to Group Two with another eleven boys and girls who had cameescapedcomeleft come from big cities in China. I was told that language study required smallness so that we would get more attention from the skilful teachers. The better the school, the smaller the class. I realized that my classmates were already all spokespeaktalkingspeaking talking in English, simple sentences tossed out to each other in their red-faced introductions and carefree chatting. Their intonations were curving and dramatic and their pronunciation refined and accurate. But as I stretched to catch the drips and drops of their humming dialogue, I couldn't understand it all, only that it was English. Those words now flying before me sounded a little familiar. I had read them and tried to speak them, but I had never heard them talkedrespondedspokensmiled spoken back to me in such a speedy, fluent manner. My big plan of fightingbeatingfittingliving beating the city folks was thawing before my eyes.