小学应该取消英语课吗？ 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.

现在，关于小学取消英语课的问题有广泛的讨论，因为现在越来越多的人开始认识到其实我们从大学毕业之后并不常用英文，除了英语老师和翻译。除此之外，越来越多的人倾向于注重中国传统文学和美德。

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.

同意取消英语课的人争辩说现在有太多的中国人不懂中国文学和美德了，他们关心的都是外国文学和外语。这有可能会引起中国文学的衰退。再者，现在父母太重视赚钱，他们无视掉对孩子的中国美德教育，很多年轻的学生根本就不懂那是什么。人们认为我们应该取消英文课，再开设中国传统文学和美德的课程。

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.

反对取消英文课的人认为小学时学习外语的最佳年龄，当人们长大，年龄会让记忆力下降，处理信息的能力也会减缓。顺带一提，人们都提倡和国际接轨，英语被许多国家广泛第作为第二语言使用，我们还是很有可能在某个方面用到英语的。因此，我们应当在我们年轻时候学习英语，不然我们长大后就会发现很难学了。

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.

总体来说，我认为小学不应该取消英语课。对于中国传统文学这个问题，我们可以开设这类课程，这样我们的小学生两种知识都能学到了。