如何选择你应该学习的语言
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| 时间 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 0:00 | I know a lot of monolingual English speakers who have a vague wish to learn a language, | 我知道很多单一语言的英语使用者 他们对学习语言的愿望模糊不清 |
| 0:04 | but who've never managed to stay motivated, and I think a big part of that is that there | 但我认为其中的一大部分是... |
| 0:07 | are too many languages in the world and it's too easy to start half-learning four different | 世界上语言太多了 开始半点学习太容易了 四个不同 |
| 0:11 | ones and then giving up on all of them. | 他们都放弃了 |
| 0:12 | I also have a following of insane polyglots | 我还有一群疯子 |
| 0:15 | who by language 6 are not really sure which one to go for next. | 从语言上看 6 不确定下一个选哪一个 |
| 0:18 | So I'm here to tell you what to do so you don't have to make a decision. | 所以我来告诉你该怎么做 这样你就不用做决定了 |
| 0:21 | Three caveats before we start. | 开始前有三个警告 |
| 0:23 | One, this is about what language to learn, not how to learn | 第一,这是要学什么语言,不是要学什么 |
| 0:25 | it. | 这个 |
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| 1 | I know a lot of monolingual English speakers who have a vague wish to learn a language, | 我知道很多单一语言的英语使用者 他们对学习语言的愿望模糊不清 |
| 2 | but who've never managed to stay motivated, and I think a big part of that is that there | 但我认为其中的一大部分是... |
| 3 | are too many languages in the world and it's too easy to start half-learning four different | 世界上语言太多了 开始半点学习太容易了 四个不同 |
| 4 | ones and then giving up on all of them. | 他们都放弃了 |
| 5 | I also have a following of insane polyglots | 我还有一群疯子 |
| 6 | who by language 6 are not really sure which one to go for next. | 从语言上看 6 不确定下一个选哪一个 |
| 7 | So I'm here to tell you what to do so you don't have to make a decision. | 所以我来告诉你该怎么做 这样你就不用做决定了 |
| 8 | Three caveats before we start. | 开始前有三个警告 |
| 9 | One, this is about what language to learn, not how to learn | 第一,这是要学什么语言,不是要学什么 |
| 10 | it. | 这个 |
| 11 | Two, there might be multiple languages selected for by my requirements at each stage, | 第二,每个阶段都有我要求的多种语言 |
| 12 | actually there definitely are, but I'm going to say one because otherwise I wouldn't | 实际上肯定有 但我要说一个 因为否则我不会 |
| 13 | be making the choice, would I? | 我会做出选择吗? |
| 14 | Three, this is a guide for English speakers, | 三,这是讲英语的指南, |
| 15 | especially native speakers, but everything I say will of course be affected by your knowledge | 特别是本地人,但我所说的一切都会受到你的影响 |
| 16 | of other languages. | 其他语言。 |
| 17 | So question one, do you live in a country | 问题一,你住的地方吗? |
| 18 | or community where you don't speak the native language? | 或者是不讲当地语言的社区? |
| 19 | If the answer is yes, then learn | 如果答案是肯定的,那就学习 |
| 20 | it no matter what. | 无论怎样 |
| 21 | This is the language you probably already are learning, and if not, | 这是你可能已经在学的语言 如果不是的话 |
| 22 | the one you definitely should be. | 你绝对应该是那个 |
| 23 | You can survive in most countries with only | 在大部分国家,你只能靠 |
| 24 | English, and in many you can live your life, but if you're in Germany and not speaking | 英语,很多时候你可以过自己的生活 但如果你在德国而不说话 |
| 25 | German then you are excluding yourself from a lot of the experience of living in Germany. | 德意志人,你将自己排除在德国生活的许多经验之外。 |
| 26 | In my opinion, one of the most important things we can do for personal and communal wellbeing | 我认为,为了个人和集体福祉,我们可以做的最重要的事情之一 |
| 27 | is feeling connected to the physical and social space we occupy, and language is a big, if | 语言是一个巨大的,如果 |
| 28 | not the biggest, part of that. | 不是最大的,这部分。 |
| 29 | You don't want to be stuck just talking to the same | 你不想被卡住,只是说同样的 |
| 30 | circle of internationals while you're in a different country, it will make your time | 当你们在另一个国家的时候,国际圈子会给你的时间 |
| 31 | there worse, and frankly it is kind of disrespectful to the country you've moved to. | 更糟糕的是,坦率地说,这是一种不尊重 你搬到的国家。 |
| 32 | I don't | 我没有 |
| 33 | care if the language is hard, you'll never have a better opportunity to practice it than | 如果语言很困难 你永远没有比这更好的机会练习 |
| 34 | now. | 现在 |
| 35 | I don't care if everyone speaks English anyway, slowly insert an increasing amount | 我不管大家会说英语,慢慢地插入增加的金额 |
| 36 | of the language into conversations and everyday interactions until you're good enough to | 将语言融入谈话和日常互动 直到你够格 |
| 37 | force everyone to speak their native language with you. | 强迫大家说他们的母语与你。 |
| 38 | If you're in Sweden, even if people are telling you that Swedish doesn't matter and that | 如果你在瑞典 即使有人告诉你瑞典语不重要 |
| 39 | they'd rather just speak English, learn the language out of respect for the people | 他们宁愿只说英语, 学习语言 出于尊重人民 |
| 40 | who wouldn't rather speak English, for the culture at large and for the general health | 更不愿说英语,为整个文化 和一般的健康 |
| 41 | of the language. | 语言。 |
| 42 | If you're in the Netherlands, learn Dutch out of spite. | 如果你在荷兰, 学荷兰语。 |
| 43 | I'm not trying to come across as hateful to the people who do live in a community without | 我并不想对生活在一个社区里的人 产生仇恨 |
| 44 | knowing its language, I know and am friends with such people, but for you the search for | 我知道它的语言,我知道,并且是朋友 这些人,但你寻找 |
| 45 | a language is over now and deep down you already knew it. | 语言已经过去,你早就知道了 |
| 46 | But if you answered no, then the next question is do you speak your heritage language, like | 但如果你回答不,那么下一个问题是 你是否说出你的遗产语言,比如 |
| 47 | is one side of your family French or something? | 你家庭的一方是法国人还是什么的? |
| 48 | If no, then learn this one, it's a language | 如果不是,那就学这个,这是一种语言 |
| 49 | you'll get plenty of opportunity to use, it will connect you with your family more, | 你会得到很多机会使用, 它会连接你和你的家人更多, |
| 50 | you probably already like half know a bunch of words and phrases, you've heard the pronunciation | 你可能已经喜欢一半 知道一堆词和短语, 你听说过发音 |
| 51 | If this is the case with both sides of your family, like one parent speaks one language | 如果你的双亲都这样,就像父母一方会说一种语言 |
| 52 | and the other speaks a different one, then it's time to choose which parent you prefer. | 而另一个则会说不同的, 然后是时候选择你喜欢哪个家长。 |
| 53 | If yes, or you don't have a heritage language, then instead pick the language of your romantic | 如果有,或者你没有传统语言 那就选浪漫的语言 |
| 54 | partner and their family. | 伴侣和他们的家庭。 |
| 55 | Note I said romantic partner here, not crush, in fact if your crush | 注意,我说浪漫伴侣在这里, 不是粉碎,事实上,如果你的迷恋 |
| 56 | speaks any of the languages from this question onwards, then that's an automatic skip. | 从这个问题开始讲任何一种语言,那就自动跳过。 |
| 57 | Next, a language your friend group or much of your friend group speaks, then the language | 接下来是你的朋友小组或大部分朋友小组的语言,然后是语言 |
| 58 | of a really close friend. | 一个非常亲密的朋友 |
| 59 | For both of these again you'll have a lot of motivation and | 再说一次,你有很多动机 |
| 60 | If none of that applies to you, well are you one of these hyper-practical freak people who just | 如果这些都不适用于你, 那么,你是不是这些超实际的怪人之一 |
| 61 | really want to learn the most useful language? | 真的想学最有用的语言吗? |
| 62 | Before I answer that question, you should ask | 在我回答这个问题之前 你应该问 |
| 63 | yourself if you want a hyper-practical way to learn a language from this video. | 如果你想用超实用的方法 从这段视频中学习语言 |
| 64 | If yes, | 如果是, |
| 65 | then you should check out today's video sponsor, italki. | 那你应该看看今天的视频赞助商 Italki |
| 66 | Italki is a language learning platform | Italki是一个语言学习平台 |
| 67 | which connects teachers and learners so that you can get personalised one-on-one lessons with | 将教师和学习者联系起来,以便你能够获得个性化的一对一课程与 |
| 68 | native speaker teachers. | 母语教师。 |
| 69 | This means that you get the opportunity to improve your listening | 这意味着你有机会改善你的听力 |
| 70 | and speaking skills in the context of a real conversation with a real person, receiving real | 和说话技巧 在与真实人进行真正对话的背景下 |
| 71 | time feedback and guidance from language experts. | 语言专家提供的时间反馈和指导。 |
| 72 | Italki lets you book lessons with more than | Italki让你为课程订书 |
| 73 | 30,000 experienced teachers of over 150 languages all over the world, keeping learning flexible with | 全世界150多种语言的30 000名有经验的教师,保持学习灵活性。 |
| 74 | a paper lesson policy to fit into your schedule whilst also giving you access to a vast range | 与日程相适应的纸质教学政策,同时允许您进入广阔的范围 |
| 75 | of languages. | 语文。 |
| 76 | So whether you want to learn French, German, Indonesian or all of the above, | 所以,无论你想学习法语,德语,印度尼西亚语还是所有上述, |
| 77 | you have the resources you need to immerse yourself in different languages and cultures | 您拥有将自身融入不同语言和文化所需要的资源 |
| 78 | even if you can't travel abroad. | 即使你不能出国旅行 |
| 79 | I myself had a go at some Korean with my teacher Soyoung. | 我和老师素英一起去韩国了 |
| 80 | Thanks again to Soyoung for that wonderful lesson and if you're also looking for a practical way | 再次感谢素英的精彩教训 如果你还在寻找一个实用的方法 |
| 81 | to improve your language skills, click through the link in the description below. | 来提高语言能力,请点击下面描述中的链接。 |
| 82 | If you go | 如果你走的话 |
| 83 | to italki now, you can get $5 off your first $10 purchase when you use my exclusive promo code | 现在到意大利,你可以得到5美元 从你的第一个10美元购买 当你使用我的独家宣传码 |
| 84 | CLINE. | 连线. |
| 85 | This discount is only available for the first 50 users so get on that and thank you to | 这个折扣只提供给前50个用户,所以请上吧,谢谢 |
| 86 | Italki赞助这段视频。 | |
| 87 | Where was I? | 我说到哪儿了? |
| 88 | Oh yes, the most useful language. | 哦,是的,最有用的语言。 |
| 89 | The thing with | 这件事情 |
| 90 | as an English speaker, you already speak it. | 作为英语发言人 你已经说过了 |
| 91 | Now I'm not saying that other languages aren't | 我不是说其他语言不是 |
| 92 | tangibly quote unquote useful in business, navigating life, getting a job, whatever it | 直截了当地引用了在商业,导航生活, 找到工作,不管它是什么 |
| 93 | might be because they certainly are, but what I am saying is that from the English speaker's | 也许是因为他们当然是, 但我要说的是, 从英语的 |
| 94 | perspective, there's no real all-rounder that can kind of nebulously help you because that's | 从视角看,没有真正的全方位 能够帮助你,因为 |
| 95 | generally English. | 一般英语。 |
| 96 | It will be much more specific to the places you want to go and the specific | 它会更具体地 针对你想去的地方和具体 |
| 97 | industries you're interested in. | 你感兴趣的行业。 |
| 98 | I mean, most likely it will be a world language like Spanish, | 我的意思是,它很可能是一个世界语言 像西班牙语, |
| 99 | Chinese, French, Portuguese, maybe Arabic or German, but without knowing more details about | 中文、法文、葡萄牙文、阿拉伯文或德文, |
| 100 | your life, I couldn't really tell you. | 你的人生,我真的不能告诉你。 |
| 101 | The good news is, if you're the kind of hyper practical | 好消息是,如果你是那种超实用的 |
| 102 | person who just wants to get the most useful language under their belt to further their career | 想要用最有用的语言来推进事业的人 |
| 103 | or whatever it is you people do, then you probably already know what language it is you should be | 或者不管你们做什么 你们可能已经知道你们应该用什么语言了 |
| 104 | learning, so go get it done. | 学习,所以去把它完成。 |
| 105 | If you really just want to be able to communicate with the highest | 如果你真的想和最高层沟通 |
| 106 | number of people in your surroundings, then in Canada this would probably be French, in the US, | 在你周围的人数量, 然后在加拿大,这可能是法国,在美国, |
| 107 | in the UK also Spanish, so when you drunkenly bother the locals in Ibiza, at least you can | 在英国也是西班牙语,所以当你喝醉 打扰伊比萨的当地人,至少你可以 |
| 108 | do it in their own language. | 用他们自己的语言做 |
| 109 | Next, do you just want to learn a language for the sake of having | 接下来,你只想学一种语言吗? |
| 110 | learned a language? | 学过语言吗? |
| 111 | If yes, you probably want to learn the easiest language, which is obviously | 如果是的话,你可能想要学习 最简单的语言,很明显 |
| 112 | going to depend a lot on what languages you already know, but from a monolingual English | 将非常依赖你已经知道的语言, 但从单一语言英语 |
| 113 | perspective, which are the majority of people who are going to be in this category anyway, | 这些人中的大多数无论如何都将属于这一类, |
| 114 | we can look at the category one languages, the languages that take the shortest amount of time | 我们可以看一类语言, 最短时间的语言 |
| 115 | to learn up to a level three, which is apparently roughly a C1. | 学习到三级,显然大约是C1。 |
| 116 | These are Danish, Dutch, French, | 它们是丹麦人,荷兰人,法国人, |
| 117 | Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish and Swedish, according to the US Department of | 据美国外交部称,意大利、挪威、葡萄牙、罗马尼亚、西班牙和瑞典等国的移民人数 |
| 118 | State. | 州属. |
| 119 | All languages which are very similar to English, all Indo-European, so with relatively | 所有与英语非常相似的语言, 所有印欧语,所以相对来说 |
| 120 | similar grammar, and all Germanic or Romance, so sharing a lot of vocabulary. | 类似语法, 和所有日耳曼语或罗马语, 所以分享了很多词汇。 |
| 121 | If you can get | 如果你可以得到 |
| 122 | over the initial hurdle of adapting to the sound and pace of the language, then a lot of comprehension | 适应语言的声音和速度的最初障碍, |
| 123 | is just handed to you for free because of English's Germanic origins and the massive amounts of Romance | 因为英语的德国血统 和大量的浪漫 才免费交给你 |
| 124 | it has learned from French. | 它从法语中吸取了教训。 |
| 125 | We can rule out Spanish and French, which take 30 weeks instead | 我们可以排除西班牙语和法语 需要30周时间 |
| 126 | of the 24 estimated for the others. | 估计其他24人。 |
| 127 | This is, of course, assuming you do 23 hours of lessons a week | 当然,这是假设你每周上课23小时 |
| 128 | plus 17 hours of self-studies, so if you scale this for your one hour lesson a week plus 30 minutes | 加上17小时的自学,所以如果你把这个缩放 一周一个小时的课,加上30分钟 |
| 129 | of half-heartedly staring at flashcards, that's 640 weeks, but still. | 半心半意地盯着闪卡, 这是640周,但仍然。 |
| 130 | Anyway, I'm glad to see French | 总之,我很高兴看到法语 |
| 131 | go. | 开始 |
| 132 | I'm pretty sure the French Foreign Ministry tricked the Americans into putting French as a | 我敢肯定,法国外交部 欺骗美国人把法语作为一个 |
| 133 | form of psychological warfare. | 一种心理战 |
| 134 | We can eliminate Romanian and Norwegian because they have three | 我们可以消灭罗马尼亚人和挪威人,因为他们有三个 |
| 135 | genders compared to the others too, and if there's one thing English native speakers love whining | 与其他人相比,性别也是,如果有一件事 英国本地人喜欢抱怨 |
| 136 | about, it's grammatical gender. | 是关于语法上的性别 |
| 137 | Dutch is tricky because standard Dutch pretends to have three | 荷兰人很狡猾 因为标准的荷兰人假装有三个 |
| 138 | genders, but it really only has two, so I'll allow it for now. | 性别,但它真的只有两个, 所以我现在允许它。 |
| 139 | Now you can choose. | 现在你可以选择了。 |
| 140 | Do you want more | 还要吗? |
| 141 | complicated verb forms or more complicated word order? | 复杂的动词形式还是更复杂的词序? |
| 142 | Verb forms then it's Italian, | 动词是意大利语 |
| 143 | because Portuguese seems to me subjectively to be the harder one to pronounce. | 因为葡萄牙语在我看来是主观上 很难发音的 |
| 144 | This is very | 这是非常的 |
| 145 | not trying to go for perfect pronunciation here, but I do think Swedish and Danish are | 但瑞典语和丹麦语 |
| 146 | harder to pronounce. | 更难发音。 |
| 147 | Yes, Dutch does sound like this, but Danish sounds like this. | 是的,荷兰语听起来是这样, 但丹麦语听起来是这样。 |
| 148 | And with Swedish you have to deal with pitch accents or tonality and the SJ sound, which has | 和瑞典语,你必须 处理音调或音调 和SJ的声音,它有 |
| 149 | a dedicated IPA symbol because it's the only language in the world which has it. | 一个专门的IPA符号,因为它是世界上唯一拥有它的语言. |
| 150 | On the other | 另一方面 |
| 151 | hand, though, Swedish does have dialects and variants without that sound, and I think the | 手,虽然,瑞典语确实有方言和变体 没有这种声音,我认为 |
| 152 | problems with them are more on the production side than the perception side. | 问题在生产方面比在感知方面要多。 |
| 153 | I've always | 我总是 |
| 154 | personally found Swedish very easy to understand, but in all seriousness I don't think it's that | 我个人觉得瑞典语很容易理解, 但从严肃的角度看,我不认为 |
| 155 | bad. | 糟透了,我还没说完 |
| 156 | Danish is out though, I only kept it in this far as a joke really, but between Swedish and | 不过丹麦人出去了,我只留了这么远作为笑话,但瑞典人和瑞典人之间 |
| 157 | Dutch, I still think it's Dutch. | 荷兰人,我还是觉得是荷兰人 |
| 158 | At first glance, Dutch looks more complicated, it sends the verb to | 乍一看,荷兰语看起来比较复杂, 它把动词发送到 |
| 159 | the end in a bunch of constructions and has different singular and plural forms of the verb, | 结尾在一堆构造中, 并有不同的单数和复数形式 动词, |
| 160 | but then if you look closer, you realise that Swedish doesn't send the verb to the end in | 但是如果你仔细看 你就会意识到瑞典语不会把动词送到最后 |
| 161 | subordinate clauses or infinitive constructions, which makes it even weirder, because instead of | 附属条款或无穷无尽的构思, 这使它更加奇怪, 因为相反, |
| 162 | just putting it at the end and being done with it, it puts it in the middle, separated from its | 把它放在最后,然后用它做, 它把它放在中间,从它的 |
| 163 | subject or auxiliary by certain words called clausal adverbials, but not by others. | 被某些单词称为clausal adverbials的主体或辅助,但不被其他人使用. |
| 164 | And then | 礛 |
| 165 | when you get to the verb forms, sure, it doesn't distinguish singular and plural, but it does | 当你到达动词形式,当然,它不会区分单数和复数,但它确实 |
| 166 | distinguish the past participle from the supine, and you might not know what that means, but trust | 你可能不知道这意味着什么 但信任 |
| 167 | me, it's worse. | 我,这更糟。 |
| 168 | Can you tell which languages I actually know stuff about? | 你能告诉我到底懂什么语言吗? |
| 169 | Um, all of them. | 嗯,所有他们。 |
| 170 | Every | 每个 |
| 171 | single one. | 单人 |
| 172 | Of course, if you're okay with learning loads and loads of vocabulary and that's like fun | 当然,如果你能接受 学习的负荷和词汇的负荷, 这就像乐趣 |
| 173 | to you, then I could suggest Indonesian, a very analytic language with very little morphology, | 对你来说,然后我可以建议印度尼西亚语, 一个非常分析的语言, 几乎没有形态学, |
| 174 | and it's still considered a category 2 language, taking only 36 weeks of intensive study. | 并且仍然被认为是第2类语言,只花了36周的密集研究. |
| 175 | That | 那个 |
| 176 | puts it on the same level as German. | 和德国人一样高 |
| 177 | That's right, even though German is one of English's | 没错,虽然德语是英语之一 |
| 178 | closest living relatives, sharing an enormous number of words with it, the amount of grammar | 最亲近的亲戚 和它分享大量的文字 语法的数量 |
| 179 | you have to learn for it takes the same amount of time as building up an entire Austronesian | 你必须学习,因为它需要同样的时间 建立整个澳洲人 |
| 180 | vocabulary from scratch. | 词汇从零开始。 |
| 181 | Which, yeah, that's the next question. | 是的,这是下一个问题。 |
| 182 | Do you want to have learned a | 你想学到一个 |
| 183 | language, but you want a little bit more respect, a little bit of bragging rights, seem a little | 语言,但你想要一点点 尊重,一点点 吹嘘的权利,似乎有点 |
| 184 | bit cooler than the guy who learned Dutch? | 比学荷兰语的人还酷吗? |
| 185 | Then yeah, it's one of these two. | 然后是,这是其中之一。 |
| 186 | Indonesian for easier | 印尼语比较容易 |
| 187 | grammar, German for easier vocab learning. | 语法,德语为更容易的词汇学习. |
| 188 | I guess really the easiest language for English native | 我想对于英语本土来说 语言是最简单的 |
| 189 | speakers to learn would be Scots. | 学习的发言者将是苏格兰人。 |
| 190 | You know, Scots is English's sister language. | 苏格兰语是英语的姐妹语言 |
| 191 | They're both descended | 都降下来了 |
| 192 | from Middle English, but I think it's harder to learn anyway because of the depressingly | 从中英文, 但我认为它很难学习 反正因为令人沮丧 |
| 193 | small amount of resources there are for learning it. | 有少量的资源来学习它。 |
| 194 | Okay, new caveat up here. | 好吧,这里有新的警告。 |
| 195 | Is Scots available | 有苏格兰人可用吗? |
| 196 | to you and are you okay with random people denying the fact that you speak a second language? | 随机的人否认你会说第二语言,你对吗? |
| 197 | Probably not because you want the credit, but if yes, then Scots. | 可能不是因为你想要功劳 但如果是,那么苏格兰人 |
| 198 | If none of that applies to you, | 如果这些都不适用于你 |
| 199 | then take this as a PSA to learn some of your local sign language. | 然后把这个当作PSA来学习一些本地手语. |
| 200 | If you're in America, ASL, | 如果你在美国,ASL, |
| 201 | in Britain, BSL, and so on. | 在英国,BSL等等。 |
| 202 | This is great for being able to communicate with deaf people in | 这对能和聋人交流是很好的 |
| 203 | your community, obviously, people who you are likely to run into at some point in your life. | 你所在的社区,显然, 那些你可能遇到的人 在你生命的某个时候。 |
| 204 | It shows respect for those people around you so that they don't always have to adapt to you in | 它显示对周围的人的尊重 这样他们就不必适应你 |
| 205 | every situation. | 所有情况 |
| 206 | But more than that, it will undoubtedly help you in your personal life at | 不仅如此,这无疑会帮助你的个人生活 |
| 207 | some point or another. | 某点或另一点。 |
| 208 | Even if you don't end up learning the full grammar or don't remember it | 即使你最后没有学习完整的语法 或者不记得了 |
| 209 | later in life, just having some basis in the vocabulary and maybe some phrases and structures | 后期,只是有 某些基础的词汇 和也许一些短语和结构 |
| 210 | will allow you to learn it more easily should you ever need it. | 如果你需要的话 可以更容易地学习 |
| 211 | Your child or grandchild might be | 你的孩子或孙子可能是 |
| 212 | born deaf or hard of hearing, and as you get older, even as a non-deaf person, you know, | 出生的聋人或听力困难, 当你变老, 即使作为一个非聋人,你知道, |
| 213 | hearing gets worse. | 听力越来越差 |
| 214 | We are all likely to experience hearing loss over the course of our lives. | 我们都有可能在一生中经历失声。 |
| 215 | Even as something as simple as just, you know, we're all in crowded areas sometimes, | 即使是简单的事情,你知道, 我们都在拥挤的地区 有时, |
| 216 | where it can be hard to hear important information. | 很难听到重要的信息 |
| 217 | Being able to communicate simple sentences or | 能够交流简单的句子或 |
| 218 | concepts in a systematic way without any auditory component is an invaluable skill. | 没有任何听觉部分的系统概念是一种宝贵的技能。 |
| 219 | You should learn | 你应该学会 |
| 220 | some sign language and encourage your friends to do so too. | 一些手语 并鼓励你的朋友这样做。 |
| 221 | I did half a year of German sign | 我做了半年的德国标志 |
| 222 | language, I wish I could have continued, but I'm already so glad for the little I did learn. | 语言,我希望我能继续, 但我已经非常高兴 我学到了一点点。 |
| 223 | If you're past this point, you don't just want to learn a language for social reasons, | 如果你超过这一点, 你不只是想学习一种语言 因为社会原因, |
| 224 | you don't just want to learn it for the sake of having learned one, you are looking for a specific | 你不只是想学它 为了学到一个, 你在找一个特定的 |
| 225 | language that will tickle your interest. | 语言会触动你的兴趣。 |
| 226 | You're probably either already multilingual and really | 你可能已经多语种了,真的 |
| 227 | want that thrill of learning a language again, or you're interested in or studying linguistics and | 想要再次学习语言的刺激 或者你对语言学感兴趣或研究 |
| 228 | want to pick up some practical knowledge, but there's just too many languages to pick from. | 想要收集一些实用的知识,但语言太多,无法从中选择. |
| 229 | Right, then let's narrow it down. | 好吧 那就缩小范围吧 |
| 230 | Do you want to get some experience with languages that work | 您想要获得一些使用语言的经验吗 ? |
| 231 | more differently to English? | 跟英语不一样? |
| 232 | You know, things outside of the Indo-European language family | 印欧语系以外的事 |
| 233 | that English is part of. | 英国人也是 |
| 234 | This is especially for those linguists who want to broaden their horizons | 这对那些想拓宽视野的语言学家来说尤为重要 |
| 235 | and expose themselves to concepts that might just not come up in the Indo-European family. | 和暴露自己的概念 可能只是不出现 在印欧家庭。 |
| 236 | Then we need to ask ourselves, are you against learning a new script, or rather, let's rephrase | 那我们得问问自己 你是反对学习新剧本 还是改编一下 |
| 237 | that, do you want to learn a new writing system? | 你想学习一个新的写作系统吗? |
| 238 | Because if you don't actively want to, it can be | 因为如果你不积极想要, 它可以是 |
| 239 | hard to stay motivated. | 很难保持动机。 |
| 240 | If you don't, then the question is, do you enjoy torturing yourself, | 如果你不这样做, 那么问题是, 你喜欢折磨自己, |
| 241 | you know, do you like pain and suffering? | 你喜欢痛苦和痛苦吗? |
| 242 | If not, then I suggest Swahili, which works differently | 如果没有,那么我建议斯瓦希里语,它的作用不同 |
| 243 | from Indo-European languages with its prefix-oriented noun class system and agglutinative | 来自印欧语系的前缀名词类系统 |
| 244 | morphology, but is still considered a class 2 language, so still no harder than German, | 形态学,但仍被认为是第2类语言, 所以仍然不难于德语, |
| 245 | if you like pain and suffering, then how much? | 如果你喜欢痛苦和痛苦, 那么多少钱? |
| 246 | If you want to feel where your head hurting, | 如果你想感受你头疼的地方 |
| 247 | your muscles ache, your brain stems start to cramp but then get to breathe a sigh of relief | 你的肌肉痛,你的大脑开始抽筋... ...然后呼吸... |
| 248 | as the structures finally make sense in your brain, then go with Turkish or Finnish. | 因为结构终于在你的大脑里有意义了, 然后用土耳其语或芬兰语。 |
| 249 | Finnish | 芬兰语 |
| 250 | if you like the snow, Turkish if you don't. | 如果你喜欢雪,土耳其人,如果你不喜欢。 |
| 251 | If you really enjoy the feeling of blood pooling | 如果你真的喜欢血聚在一起的感觉 |
| 252 | in your ears and dripping down in puddles as you attempt to learn how to form a basic sentence, | 在你的耳朵里 滴在水坑里 当你试图学习如何形成一个基本的句子 |
| 253 | then learn Basque. | 然后学习巴斯克语。 |
| 254 | But okay, you want to learn a new writing system. | 但是,好吧,你想学习一个新的写作系统。 |
| 255 | Then the question is, do you hate yourself? | 那么问题是,你讨厌自己吗? |
| 256 | If no, learn Korean. | 如果没有,学习韩语. |
| 257 | It's hard, of course, | 当然很难 |
| 258 | but it at least fundamentally respects the time of its learners. | 但它至少从根本上尊重学习者的时间。 |
| 259 | If yes, it's time for Chinese. | 若是,是时中宗. |
| 260 | Chinese is not that bad. | 中国人没那么糟 |
| 261 | I only ever studied it for a year, but even in that time, building | 我只研究了一年, 但即使在那个时候,建设 |
| 262 | and deconstructing sentences became this satisfying, almost algorithmic exercise where | 并解构句子 成为这种满足的, 几乎算法练习 |
| 263 | there's one right answer in this super-analytic structure. | 这个超分析结构有一个正确的答案. |
| 264 | You do need to know what a topic is, | 你需要知道一个话题是什么, |
| 265 | but I think it's quite intuitive to grasp as you see more and more examples, though | 但我认为,当你看到越来越多的例子时, 理解它是非常直观的。 |
| 266 | admittedly maybe I'm just saying this because my native language also uses a lot of topic comment | 诚然,也许我只是说这个 因为我的母语 也使用了很多话题评论 |
| 267 | structures. | 结构。 |
| 268 | Either way, Chinese grammar does have its quirks, but it's satisfying and fast to learn. | 无论哪种方式,中国语法确实有其怪异之处,但学习是满足和快的. |
| 269 | Tones do pose a problem, especially at the start, but all languages have some tricky stuff in their | 托尼确实有问题,特别是在一开始, 但是所有的语言都有一些棘手的东西 |
| 270 | phonology. | 音声学. |
| 271 | The issue is the writing system. | 问题在于书写系统. |
| 272 | Learning the character for every new word you learn slows | 学习每个新词的字符慢 |
| 273 | down the process so much, and you have to be willing to sacrifice your friendships, your joy, | 你要愿意牺牲你的友谊和喜悦 |
| 274 | your soul. | 你的灵魂 |
| 275 | There is no such thing as free time anymore. | 已经没有自由时间了 |
| 276 | There is only endless lines of the same | 只有一个无尽的线一样 |
| 277 | character written over and over again until you fall asleep dreaming about it, and you've still | 角色一遍又一遍地写 直到你睡着了 梦见它,你仍然 |
| 278 | probably forgotten it the next morning. | 也许第二天早上就忘了 |
| 279 | So what if you want to learn a new writing script, but | 所以,如果你想学习 新的写作剧本,但 |
| 280 | more for the sake of learning a new script in and of itself, but more English-like grammar is fine, | 更多是为了学习新剧本本身, 但更多的英文语法是好的, |
| 281 | or even positive? | 还是肯定的? |
| 282 | Then which of these shapes do you prefer? | 那你喜欢哪一种形状? |
| 283 | If you like the swirly one, well done, | 如果你喜欢这个,做得很好 |
| 284 | you picked Persian. | 你选了波斯语 |
| 285 | If you like the angular one, you're learning Ukrainian now. | 如果你喜欢角那一个, 你现在正在学习乌克兰语。 |
| 286 | And finally, | 终于 |
| 287 | do you want to start a successful YouTube channel? | 你想启动一个成功的YouTube频道吗? |
| 288 | If no, then learn German, apparently, | 如果不是,那就学德语,显然 |
| 289 | because if you learn old English, you'll get more bloody subscribers. | 因为如果你学老英语, 你会得到更多的该死的订阅者。 |
| 290 | I think that covers all people, right? | 我认为这覆盖了所有人,对不对? |
| 291 | Oh, what's that? | 这是什么? |
| 292 | You have another question? | 你还有一个问题吗? |
| 293 | Oh, | 瓳 |
| 294 | oh, you really like anime, you say? | 哦,你真的喜欢动漫,你说? |
| 295 | You really like certain video games and manga and anime and | 你真的喜欢电子游戏 漫画和动画 |
| 296 | stuff, and you really want to know what language you should learn? | 你真的想知道你该学什么语言? |
| 297 | We both know you already have | 我们都知道你已经 |
| 298 | one in mind, and if you just don't stick to learning it for more than a week, then that's | 如果你坚持学习一个多星期,那就是 |
| 299 | commitment, not choice. | 承诺,而不是选择。 |
| 300 | If you want to learn Japanese for those reasons, then you can. | 如果你因为这些原因想学日语,那么你可以. |
| 301 | Anyway, yes, I'm done. | 无论如何,是的,我结束了。 |
| 302 | If I didn't mention your language, I'm sorry, there's a lot of them. | 如果我不提你的语言,我很抱歉,有很多。 |
| 303 | I hope you enjoyed the video. | 我希望你喜欢这个视频。 |
| 304 | It's the closest I will ever come in my life to making a joke. | 这是我这辈子最想开个玩笑的 |
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