Before you leave home for the United States, you should first be familiar with English.

在你出国赴美之前，你应该先通晓英语。

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You should be familiar with human language constructs: nouns, verbs, articles, etc., different types of each, and be able to identify variations of their contexts in English.

你应该熟悉人类语言构造：名词，动词，冠词等等，每种词的不同类型，并且能够识别这些词在不同的英语语境中的意思。

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For those who are not familiar with Lin Yutang it needs to be explained that he wrote in English.

对于那些不熟悉林语堂的人，需要说明一下，他是以英文来创作的。

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