Over the past couple of days, on Weibo, the argument about English being the ultimate leverage for ordinary people has been going really hot. Today I’ll teach you an action you can use right away to turn English first-hand information sources into a once-a-week habit. Between the English original and the Chinese paraphrase of the same company’s earnings report, the same central bank press conference, or the same project mainnet announcement, there are often several hours to several days of difference—and in the market, those few hours are the price difference. This is not something that “translators” can just be blamed for. Don’t treat it as a question of whether you should learn English. Treat it as a methods problem. Three steps are enough.
1. Don’t memorize from a word book. Pick an industry you genuinely care about, then lock down its English first-hand source. One is enough: a company’s quarterly report earnings call, a regulatory body’s announcement page.
2. Don’t aim to understand everything—just grab three numbers: direction and time. Skip the rest. Whether to look up words is up to your mood.
3. Every week, at the same time, read the same kind of documents. By the third week, you’ll start noticing the same face-recognition tricks—terminology and sentence structures—everything begins to repeat. That’s when real progress happens.
Try it today: take an action to find the latest English announcement for the company—or the protocol—you hold. Only read the title and the first paragraph. You have five minutes. Did it work? Come back and tell me.
1. Don’t memorize from a word book. Pick an industry you genuinely care about, then lock down its English first-hand source. One is enough: a company’s quarterly report earnings call, a regulatory body’s announcement page.
2. Don’t aim to understand everything—just grab three numbers: direction and time. Skip the rest. Whether to look up words is up to your mood.
3. Every week, at the same time, read the same kind of documents. By the third week, you’ll start noticing the same face-recognition tricks—terminology and sentence structures—everything begins to repeat. That’s when real progress happens.
Try it today: take an action to find the latest English announcement for the company—or the protocol—you hold. Only read the title and the first paragraph. You have five minutes. Did it work? Come back and tell me.
