迷思四，你是初学者，必然会犯很多错误
本文英语原文节选自 antimoon，略有删改并增加中文译文 Myth #4: "As a beginner, you're bound to make a lot of mistakes"
This is often given as justification of the “Mistakes are OK” myth. The reasoning is that mistakes are a part of learning, therefore it is pointless to try to avoid them 这话通常用作「犯错没关係」迷思的辩解，理由在於犯错是学习的一部份，所以尝试避开错误没有道理。」
事实
While you cannot eliminate mistakes completely, you can speak and write with very few mistakes, even if you are a beginner.
The trick is to put input before output. If you follow good examples (i.e. build your sentences out of correct phrases and patterns that you have read in books or heard from native speakers), and avoid “uncertain” phrases (phrases that could possibly be incorrect), you will make practically no mistakes
虽然你不能完全消灭错误，但你可以在读和写中只犯很少的错，即使你是初学者也好。
诀窍在於输入后才输出。如果你跟随好的范例（即是你只用书上读到、从母语者听到的正确语句和模式，来构造你的句子。），并且避免「不肯定」的语句（可能不对的语句），你就不犯错。
Here’s what this means: 上述的意思如下：
- You should not open your mouth until you see/hear enough correct sentences to build your own sentences correctly. If you can’t help but make mistakes, spend all your time on getting input (reading and listening).
- You should look things up on the Web and in dictionaries before you write a sentence, to make sure it’s correct.
- If you’re not absolutely sure and can’t check if what you’re going to say (or write) is correct, don’t say (or write) it. Otherwise, you may teach yourself an incorrect phrase.
- When reading or listening, pay attention to details like word order, articles, prepositions, and tenses. Compare sentences in the foreign language with equivalent sentences in your native language. Notice how different they are. This will help you realize which parts of your own sentences can be wrong.
- 你不要开口说，直到听读正确句子足够多，能让你正确造出句子。如果你还是常常犯错，把你所有时间都用在输入（读和听）上。
- 你写一句前，应先查互联网和词典，确保写法正确。
- 如果你不是绝对肯定你要说（或写）的话，又不能查到你要说的是否正确，请不要说（或写）出来。不然你可能教了自己错句。
- 读和听时，应留心细节，譬如词序、冠词、前置词、动词时态等。比较这句子在外语和你的母语中的同类句子，注意它们如何不同，这会令你明白你的句子哪一部份可能会错。
The above techniques help you avoid developing bad habits that would be very difficult to cure later on. If you are careful and patient enough, you can learn with very few mistakes and gradually acquire the ability to use more and more phrases that you are absolutely sure of, until you can express anything you want in the foreign language correctly and fluently.
以上技巧帮你避免养成坏习惯。坏习惯一养成就难以根治。如果你足够小心及有耐性，你学习时只会犯很少错误，逐渐地，你学会使用愈来愈多肯定对的句子，直到你可以用外语正确流畅地表达任何你所想的事。