¡¡¡¡What is language for£¿Some people seem to think it’s for practising grammar rules and learning lists of words—the longer the lists£¬the better. That’s wrong. Language is for the exchange of ideas and information. It’s meaningless knowing all about a language if you can’t use it freely. Many students I have met know hundreds of grammar rules£¬but they can’t speak correctly or fluently. They are afraid of making mistakes. One shouldn’t be afraid of making mistakes when speaking a foreign language. Native speakers make mistakes and break rules£¬too. Bernard Shaw once wrote£¬“Foreigners often speak English too correctly. ”But the mistakes that native speakers make are differently from those that Chinese students