An English reading workshop in university allowed this student to learn skimming and other skills while enjoying The Sign of the Four. He moved to Hong Kong after beginning his education in Canada.

Performing a drama, leading a book club and being a member of the English society contributed to this student’s English learning experience in secondary school. She has read The Little Prince, Harry Potter, Alice in Wonderland, Narnia, and Sherlock Holmes.

Activities using songs, films, and stories interested this Liberal Studies teaching major. It improved her pronunciation. She likes the magic of Harry Potter and mystery of Sherlock Holmes.

Learning English from TV dramas is more interesting than reading for this student because the language can be used in everyday life. She has read The Five People you meet in Heaven and enjoys mysteries like Sherlock.

Being a member of a speech club in secondary school helped this student improve her pronunciation. She likes the adventures in the Sherlock Holmes series.

An environmental science PhD student was mesmerized by her high school English teacher’s retelling of a love story. She was influenced by her mother to pick up reading. She enjoys Sherlock Holmes. English is the medium of instruction in native Philippines.

Preparing for the Gaokao was hard work for this Accounting and Finance major since she feels her English is poor. She didn’t finish Harry Potter after finding it difficult but she would like to read works of Agatha Christie and the Sherlock Holmes series in the future.

An American primary school teacher developed this Electronic Engineering major’s interest in learning with audio and visual tools. It made him realise that English is for communication rather than academic purposes. He was impressed by the beauty of the language after reading the Harry Potter series.

NETs in the kindergarten and primary school of this Computing major used music to teach the language and encouraged her to speak more. She also likes reading English fiction such as Sherlock Holmes, Harry Potter and the works of Jeffrey Archer.

Shopping for books is an activity friends can do according to this Environmental Science major. If there’s a choice, he prefers to read in Chinese because he does not like using the dictionary for English books.

Getting his English pronunciation right earned this Finance major candy. He enjoys reading Sherlock Holmes even though he needs to refer to a dictionary for some unknown vocabulary.

Subtitles in the movie Sherlock Holmes taught this Engineering major slang and difficult words. His favourite book is The Downing Street Years by Margaret Thatcher.

The fastest way to learn English is watching movies according to this Chinese major. She likes BBC’s shows, such as Sherlock Holmes, because of the accent. She was forced to read the South China Morning Post in secondary school.

Watching TV dramas and movies has helped this Sociology major learn English. He has read Sherlock Holmes, Harry Potter and Charles Dickens. His favourite books are A Christmas Carol and David Copperfield.

This Actuarial Science major had to listen to songs and write down the lyrics in secondary school. He attended a bridging course to help make the transition from a CMI primary to an EMI secondary school.

Forced to memorise vocabulary by her mum, this Translation major hated English. Academic articles were difficult when she was a freshman. She likes reading fiction books such as The Da Vinci Code.

Learning the alphabet in primary school marked the start of this Engineering major’s English learning. He read Sherlock Holmes with a dictionary.

A teacher quizzed this Cultural Management major on the vocabulary found in the newspaper every day. A difficult reading exam motivated her to improve English by reading novels such as Sherlock Holmes.

This Accounting major didn’t enjoy the exam-focused learning in school. He learnt more English when it was the MOI. He read The Red and the Black as well as detectives stories like Sherlock Holmes.

Playing video games with a dictionary let this Nursing major improve vocabulary and speech. After watching the Sherlock Holmes TV drama, she started to read the book. Although she had to check almost every word in the dictionary, she finished it.

A teacher told this Philosophy major that English is the language for connecting with the world. Reading Sherlock Holmes taught her practical English and sentence structures. She likes Oscar Wilde and Animal Farm.

A NET used songs and poems to teach this Science major. Reading Why Pick on Me? in class expanded her vocabulary. Her favourite book is Sherlock Holmes.

Dictation in tutorial classes helped expand this Information Engineering major’s vocabulary. He likes detective stories and his favourite is Sherlock Holmes.

The classes taught by a NET are fun according this Science major. He reads Sherlock Holmes.

A secondary school teacher impressed this Business major with the way he explained a poem. He read Lord of the Flies but felt the story is weird. He also read The Kite Runner and The Catcher in the Rye for school and other books during his free time.

Performing a play in junior secondary helped this Engineering major to speak English more naturally. She enjoys reading the Sherlock Holmes series.

A university course focusing on pronunciation was enjoyable for this student because it included a lot of activities. She read Sherlock Holmes in secondary school.

Interesting readings and activities have made university English lessons attractive to this Nursing major. After watching the movie Sherlock Holmes, she read the book but it was difficult for her.

Interacting with Australian teachers in secondary school was a good way for this Chinese History major to practise speaking English. She likes fiction and read The Mortal Instrument: City of Bones, Harry Potter and Sherlock Holmes.

The experience of teaching Mainland students English changed this undergraduate’s perception of their ability. Reading Sherlock Holmes in Form One entertained him and motivated him to learn.

Watching American dramas and imitating the actors improved this Technology major’s speech. He set English as the interface language on his electronic devices to practise reading and writing. He read TIME and the book Sherlock Holmes.

A teacher who used movies made the last two years of primary school enjoyable for this History major. She read Harry Potter for a class presentation. She also completed Sherlock Holmes.

Practising speaking with her classmates helped this History major get a level 4 in the DSE. After watching Sherlock Holmes on BBC, she tried to read the book but stopped after 8 pages.

A secondary school teacher advised this Electronic Engineering major to watch movies without subtitles and read books without using a dictionary. He read The Five Orange Pips for his SBA.

A teacher in primary school used puppets to practise everyday English with this Ecology major. She gave up reading Sherlock Holmes midway since it was too difficult and this discouraged her from other fiction.

A three-month summer job gave this Design major the opportunity to communicate with a British colleague. He became interested in reading Sherlock Holmes after watching the TV series.

Conducting interviews with foreign tourists made this Business Analysis major very nervous. He loves reading Sherlock Holmes and he would refer to the Chinese version when he has trouble with the English one.

An English learning programme in Beijing used games and movies to teach this Economics major. She liked to borrow novels from the university library and she was addicted to Sherlock Holmes.

Watching Sesame Street on TV was a way to learn English when this Translation major was young. She likes to read Sherlock Holmes.