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0:03Last summer when I was alone in Tallinn, Estonia, I had to face a challenge.去年夏天,我在爱沙尼亚塔林独自一人时,不得不面对挑战。
0:09This challenge was this simple phrase and many others like it, territory most.这一挑战就是这个简单的短语,还有许多其他类似的话,就是领土。
0:14I presume none of you speak Estonian.我猜你们都不会说爱沙尼亚语
0:17I take that as a no.我认为这是不。
0:19So and I was in the same situation as you are right now back in the last summer所以去年夏天我和你的情况一样
0:24because I never spoke Estonian, never read an Estonian book, never watched an Estonian movie,因为我从不说爱沙尼亚语,从不读爱沙尼亚书,从不看爱沙尼亚电影,
0:27never actually listened to an Estonian song or met anybody from Estonia.从未真正听过爱沙尼亚的歌曲 也从未见过爱沙尼亚人
0:31Yet I had to act quickly.但我得快点行动
0:32I had to be able to at that one single spot be able to understand what the barista was saying我不得不在那个单一的地方 能够理解女律师在说什么
0:37when I was ordering my coffee, be able to understand what the passport security person我点咖啡的时候 能够理解护照安全人员
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1Last summer when I was alone in Tallinn, Estonia, I had to face a challenge.去年夏天,我在爱沙尼亚塔林独自一人时,不得不面对挑战。
2This challenge was this simple phrase and many others like it, territory most.这一挑战就是这个简单的短语,还有许多其他类似的话,就是领土。
3I presume none of you speak Estonian.我猜你们都不会说爱沙尼亚语
4I take that as a no.我认为这是不。
5So and I was in the same situation as you are right now back in the last summer所以去年夏天我和你的情况一样
6because I never spoke Estonian, never read an Estonian book, never watched an Estonian movie,因为我从不说爱沙尼亚语,从不读爱沙尼亚书,从不看爱沙尼亚电影,
7never actually listened to an Estonian song or met anybody from Estonia.从未真正听过爱沙尼亚的歌曲 也从未见过爱沙尼亚人
8Yet I had to act quickly.但我得快点行动
9I had to be able to at that one single spot be able to understand what the barista was saying我不得不在那个单一的地方 能够理解女律师在说什么
10when I was ordering my coffee, be able to understand what the passport security person我点咖啡的时候 能够理解护照安全人员
11was asking me at the airport when I was coming to Estonia and was leaving Tallinn.我在机场问我 当我来到爱沙尼亚 并离开塔林。
12I had to be able to comprehend the language, to comprehend it at that very single moment.我必须能够理解语言, 在那一刻理解它。
13And this experience raised the question,这段经历提出了一个问题,
14how can one learn a language in a very limited amount of time,如何在非常有限的时间内学习语言,
15comprehend it, be able to act with it, be able to work with it, to meet people with it理解它, 能够与它一起行动, 能够与它合作,
16and most of all to progress in it.最重要的是要进步
17I attended a talk last September, which was right above this issue.去年9月,我参加了一个演讲,这正好高于这个问题。
18It was held by a polyglot.由多块块块所持.
19She was from Slovakia and was willing to talk about how she is learning,她来自斯洛伐克 并愿意谈论 她是如何学习,
20how she was learning and is still learning to this day new languages.她是如何学习的,至今仍在学习新的语言。
21She told us of people that speak six, ten, twelve, sixteen languages even.她告诉我们那些会说六、十、十二、十六种语言的人
22They devote their whole lives to this idea of being able to comprehend every single one of them他们毕生致力于这个想法 能够理解他们每一个人
23or as many as they could.或尽量多
24And if you were thinking that there is some magical way, some magical secret,如果你认为有神奇的方法 一些神奇的秘密
25which she told me, I have to disappoint you.她告诉我,我不得不让你失望。
26There is no single super method.没有单一的超级方法。
27What if the polyglots, all of them worldwide, agree on one thing?如果全世界所有的多胞胎都同意一件事呢?
28It is that there is no way, one fastest way how to learn language.这是没有办法的, 一个最快的方法如何学习语言。
29It has to be personal.必须是个人的。
30You have to be able to choose a personal way and find it你必须能够选择一个个人的方法 找到它
31and find your language through a personal way and modify it通过个人方式找到自己的语言并修改
32as much as you possibly can to suit you, to suit your type of learning.尽可能适合你的学习类型
33Some people prefer to stuff their head full of vocabulary有些人喜欢把头装满词汇
34and to fill it with words and phrases until their head bursts.并用言语和言语填满它,直到他们的头晕。
35Some of us prefer to watch a movie, to talk with a person at a pub我们有些人更喜欢看电影 在酒吧和一个人聊天
36or like me, when going back from the library, working on an essay for six hours或喜欢我,当回到图书馆, 做一篇论文6小时
37till dying morning, meet a drunken Frenchman and talk to him in French直到早上死, 遇到一个醉酒的法国人 用法语跟他说话
38and practice as much as I can.尽我所能练习
39There are many ways.有许多方法。
40Some people even prefer those video games that you know, your phones,有些人甚至更喜欢那些电子游戏 你知道,你的手机,
41you know, the memorises and those kind of things.你知道,回忆和这些事情。
42I'm not much a fan of that, but that's a personal thing again.我不太喜欢这个,但又是私人恩怨
43Today, what I'll be presenting to you is something different.今天,我要向你们展示的是不同的东西。
44It is or these are the four points which are intrinsic to our learning,是我们学习的内在四点
45which are the building blocks of any learning of any language you will ever do.这些是学习任何语言的基础。
46Doesn't matter if it's Chinese, if it's Arabic, it is Hebrew,不管是中文还是阿拉伯文,都是希伯来文
47Estonian, French, Spanish, any language whatsoever.爱沙尼亚语、法语、西班牙语、任何语言。
48These four things, message, importance, observation, comprehension,这四件事,信息,重要性,观察,理解,
49all amount to the same thing, the same goal, learning a language effectively.都等于是同一东西,同一目标, 有效地学习一种语言。
50And they all are, as you'll soon find, interconnected.而且,你们很快会发现,它们都是相互联系的。
51You cannot just focus on one of them.你不能只关注其中之一。
52You cannot just focus on importance and hope that you will,你不能仅仅专注于重要性,希望你会,
53through this relevance to who you are, you'll be able to learn quickly.通过这种与你身份的关联,你就能很快地学会.
54Or similarly, you cannot just focus on comprehension.同样,你不能只专注于理解。
55As we do in our schools nowadays, we focus too much on memorising vocabulary就像我们现在的学校一样 我们过于关注记忆中的词汇
56or learning phrases about whatever thing that there is prescribed by the booklets.或学习关于任何事物 小册子规定的短语。
57But that's not how you learn a language.但你不是这么学语言的
58I'll get into them more later once I progress through the talk.我待会再谈
59The first one is message.第一个是信息。
60Some of you, this might seem bizarre about what I mean by message.你们中有些人,这似乎很奇怪 关于我所说的信息。
61It is, well, you'll see yourselves.这是,好了,你会看到自己。
62This sentence is in Estonian.此句在爱沙尼亚语中.
63Since you know how to speak Estonian, I'm not going to be asking what it actually means.既然你知道怎么说爱沙尼亚语 我不会问它到底是什么意思
64But does anybody or rather, let me read it.但是,任何人或宁可, 让我读它。
65I'm not fluent in Estonian, so just like, be ready with me.我不流利的爱沙尼亚语,所以就像, 准备好和我在一起。
66So,这么说
67Now, still, you have no clue what this actually means.现在,尽管如此,你完全不知道这到底意味着什么。
68I don't presume that from some magic learning of some broken Estonian,我不认为从一些神奇的学习 一些破碎的爱沙尼亚,
69you magically speak or learn, understand this one phrase.你神奇的说话或学习, 理解这个短语。
70But already you can see that there is yaw twice.但你已经看到有两遍了
71And because language is logically structured, you are able to deduce that因为语言是逻辑结构的 你可以推断
72probably because also these two words have the same endings, this one and this one,可能是因为这两个词的结局都一样,这个和这个
73and then these two, then maybe that means end.然后这两个,然后也许这意味着结束。
74And already, in less than 30 seconds, you understand one word and language30秒内你就会明白一个字和语言
75that you've never seen in your whole life.你这辈子从未见过
76And through progressing like this, through making these small steps,通过这样的进步, 通过这些小步骤,
77you're able to actually learn it.你能够真正学习它。
78What if I put another sentence here in a language that some of you speak,如果我用你们中有些人会说的语言 再说一句
79maybe more than some of you, maybe all of you, but certain that it's more也许比你们中的一些人,也许你们所有人, 但肯定它更多
80familiar because we are in an Anglophone, Francophone society.因为我们在英语、法语社会中
81So most of us, presumably.因此,大部分我们,大概。
82And what if I put another one, which all of us speak in English?如果我再放一个,我们用英语讲哪个呢?
83This is how you learn language.这就是你学习语言的方式。
84Once you find the meaning, the message behind a sentence,一旦你找到意义和句子背后的信息
85you are able to acquire the language.您可以获取语言。
86There are signifiers in a language which all help you to build a logical有一种语言的符号 帮助您构建逻辑
87structure of this said language.这一语言的结构。
88When you understand the message, you unconsciously acquired language.当你理解信息时,你无意识地获得语言.
89This doesn't mean that by understanding one phrase from the Charter of Human这并不意味着通过理解《人类宪章》中的一句话
90Rights from the United Nations, you understand Estonian or French or来自联合国的权利,你懂爱沙尼亚语或法语或
91English for that matter.英文是这方面的。
92It simply means that you will have the building blocks with它只是意味着,你会有 构件与
93which you can build the learning.你可以建立学习。
94You have the logical structure, which builds on this language.你有逻辑结构,它建立在这种语言之上。
95Then you have importance, every language, no matter what it is, has to be useful那你有重要的意义,每种语言,不管是什么,都必须有用
96to you, has to be relevant to you, has to be something you enjoy.对你来说,必须和你有关, 必须是你喜欢的东西。
97When I was in school many years ago in my very elementary school, I was当我在很多年前的学校 在我非常的小学,我是
98forced to study Spanish.被迫学习西班牙语。
99I hated it.我讨厌它。
100I couldn't stand it.我无法忍受
101Nothing against Spanish, nothing against that.没有反对西班牙语,也没有反对西班牙语。
102It was simply, I just didn't enjoy it.很简单,我只是不喜欢它。
103I couldn't learn a single sentence.我一个句子都学不好
104When I was in Italy for my Duke of Edinburgh residential trip, I was, I我在意大利参加爱丁堡公爵的住宿旅行时 我...
105decided to study Italian and I was just like, yes, I'm going to learn this我决定学习意大利语,我就想,是的,我要学会这个
106language and then I failed because I was not able to enjoy it because I语言,然后我失败了 因为我无法享受它,因为我
107just didn't enjoy it.只是不喜欢它。
108And actually from that one trip, I had more from Swedish because I met a实际上从那一次旅行中 我得到了更多的瑞典语 因为我遇到了一个
109Swedish friend that I'm still in contact to this day.瑞典朋友,我今天还在联系
110It is this enjoyment, this relevance to you that is important.正是这种享受,这种与你们的相关性才是重要的。
111It has to be relevant to your education, something that you want to learn because它必须与你的教育有关, 一些你想学习的,因为
112you want to progress in your life, has to be relevant because of family or你想在你的生活中进步, 必须有相关性 因为家庭或
113friends, if you find enjoyment in it, it has to be relevant because of your job.朋友们,如果你在其中找到乐趣, 它必须是相关的 因为你的工作。
114Maybe you have a job in, I don't know, Ireland or Stockholm and you need to也许你在爱尔兰或斯德哥尔摩有份工作
115learn the language to be able to work with it.学习语言才能与之合作。
116And like me, maybe it's relevant to your travels because being international,和我一样,也许这与你的旅行有关 因为做国际旅行
117this is what this whole day is about, means that you want to open yourself这就是这一整天的意义, 意味着你想打开自己
118to other opportunities, for me that means to see different cultures in对我来说,这意味着要看到不同的文化
119different worlds and as a part of that, you have to be able to speak the不同的世界,作为其中的一部分, 你必须能够说话
120language to at least some degree.语言至少达到某种程度。
121Languages are tools, just like any other part of our lives.语言是工具,就像我们生活中任何其他部分一样。
122They can be used in some meaningful way.它们可以用某种有意义的方式使用。
123Once you find this, what this meaningful way is, you're able to learn much一旦你找到这个,你就能学到很多
124faster and therefore choose a language that's useful to you.更快,因此选择一种对你有用的语言.
125Now onto observation, and this is probably the part that I think might be现在观察, 这可能是 我想可能是
126one of the most important, simply because it can be done so easily.最重要的一个, 仅仅因为它可以如此容易地做到这一点。
127This photo was taken when I was also, last summer, walking the Tour de Montblanc这张照片是去年夏天我走蒙勃朗之旅时拍的
128in between France, Italy and Switzerland.在法国、意大利和瑞士之间
129And when I took it, I was just crossing the Italian-French border.当我拿走它时,我刚刚越过了意大利和法国的边界。
130I just came from a little, a little refugio on the French side and was我刚刚从法国那边的 一点点,一点点的复古。
131walking up the mountain to cross the Italian side and in the same day, I走上山去穿越意大利一侧 同一天,我
132spoke both French and Italian.讲法语和意大利语。
133My French is by no means good, but I'm able to talk with it.吾法门虽不善,但能与其谈.
134Italian is much harder, but still I was able to comprehend the people, ask for a意大利语更难,但我还是能理解人民,要求
135And in a dire situation, not be forced to sleep outside in wind and freezing cold,在严峻的形势下,不要被迫在风和寒冷中睡在外面,
136because that would not be enjoyable at all.因为这根本不是一件好事
137And from it, I realized that there are two key things that you have to be从它,我意识到 有两件关键的事情你必须
138actually immerse yourself in the language to some degree.实际上你在某种程度上沉浸在语言中。
139You cannot just stand, sit at home and hope that language will come to you,你不能只是站着,坐在家里 希望语言会来到你,
140that the knowledge that you are able to do with it will actually come to you你所能做的知识,将降临你,
141some like that, like that.有些是那样的
142You have to be actually able to put yourself there, to pay attention, to你必须能把自己放在那里, 注意,注意
143observe what people are doing, how they speak, how they emote, and hopefully from观察人们在做什么, 他们如何说话, 他们如何发出,希望从
144that build up your knowledge.积累你的知识
145And, and this is actually a key thing.而且,这其实是一个关键的事情。
146I think people should start doing this.我认为人们应该开始这样做。
147You should be looking for something called a parent speaker.你应该找一个叫家长演讲的人
148Now, this is what I learned during the talk about the polyglots back in September.这是我在9月讨论多块块时学到的。
149It is an idea that when you're a new, you speak a new language, you're like a baby.这是一个想法,当你是新人的时候,你会说新语言,就像婴儿一样.
150You don't know how to actually operate language.你不知道如何操作语言。
151You're just plugged in a world where all adjuncts speak in a different language你刚刚插上了一个世界 世界上所有的副手都用不同的语言说话
152and you're just hoping to grab, grasp a meaning about it.你只是希望抓住, 抓住它的意义。
153Grasp something that you can know, a word that you can understand.一个你能理解的词
154What you need is a parent speaker.你需要的是一个家长演讲者。
155Somebody that will speak to you on a same level will help you learn new words跟你说话的人会帮你学新词
156and will actually correct you.并会真正纠正你。
157Will actually give you advice how to speak better and will not其实会给你建议 如何说话更好,不会
158diminish you in any sort of way.以任何一种方式削弱你。
159That is key because when you're able to practice your speaking, your这是关键,因为当你能够练习 你的演讲,你的
160learning in that sense, you learn faster because, and this is actually going to从这个意义上学习,你学得更快 因为,这实际上是
161be the very next slide, I think afterwards, so I'm going to quickly get to this.成为下一个幻灯片,我想之后, 所以我会很快得到这个。
162Sorry for that.对不起
163When you actually learn a language through comprehension, through observation,当你真正学习的语言 通过理解, 通过观察,
164you are able to then speak the language.然后,你可以说出语言。
165And that is one of the most important things because how else would you want这是最重要的事情之一 因为你想要什么
166to communicate with people, especially like me, when you want to travel, you与人交流,特别是像我一样, 当你想要旅行,你
167need to be able to, on your knowledge, you have to be able to actually find需要能够,根据你的知识, 你必须能够找到
168somebody that you can talk to an equal sense and you have to be able to listen一个人,你可以说话 平等感,你必须能够听
169a lot, people don't want to listen.很多,人们不想听。
170They revert back to English.他们回到英语。
171They revert back to their natural tongue because they are scared.他们回到自然的舌头,因为他们害怕。
172Don't be scared.别害怕
173This is going to sound like a great cliche.这听起来像一个伟大的陈词滥调。
174Don't be scared to make mistakes, make them, they're going to be corrected不要害怕犯错,犯错,会得到纠正
175by people and you're going to learn from that.你会从中吸取教训
176And now to the thing that I was hoping to talk about comprehension.现在我要谈的是理解。
177And this thing can be split into two parts, memory and comprehension or knowledge.而这个东西可以分为两个部分,记忆和理解或知识.
178And I feel like nowadays in schools, what we do is we just stuff our heads我觉得现在在学校里,我们做的就是把头塞进去
179with vocabulary until they explode.有词汇,直到爆炸。
180We shouldn't be doing that because memory or knowledge isn't comprehension.我们不应该这样做 因为记忆或知识是无法理解的。
181Like, for example, I know one sentence in Irish.例如,我懂爱尔兰语的一句话。
182Does it mean I speak Irish?意思是我说爱尔兰语吗?
183By no means.绝对不行
184I don't even properly know what the sentence means, but I know it's Irish.我甚至不知道这句话的意思 但我知道是爱尔兰语
185I have that one piece of knowledge, but I couldn't say I comprehend the我有一个知识, 但我不能说我理解
186language by no means whatsoever.绝对不是语言
187And that's the issue.这就是问题所在。
188We force ourselves to learn complex vocabulary that is not relevant to us.我们强迫自己学习与我们无关的复杂词汇。
189We're forced to stuff our heads with words that don't bear any meaning and我们不得不用没有意义的话 来填满我们的脑袋
190that we'll never probably use ever in our lives yet we don't actually我们永远不会使用 永远在我们的生活,但我们没有
191focus on comprehending them to comprehending the structures and the重点在于理解它们,以理解结构以及
192sentences to actually using our existing knowledge from other languages,句子实际上使用 我们的现有知识 从其他语言,
193from, from my modern tongues to actually progress further.从,从我的现代舌头 到实际进步。
194We should be doing that.我们应该这样做。
195We should be trying to learn with use of our existing languages.我们应该努力用我们现有的语言来学习。
196We should be using a native native tongues.我们应该用母语
197We should be using our abilities to speak from day one and we should be我们应该利用我们的能力 从第一天开始说话,我们应该
198looking at actions more than work or nouns.观察动作 不只是工作或名词。
199When you learn what it means, what it means the word to hurt, it's still当你知道它意味着什么, 它意味着伤害,它仍然是
200more useful than actually what it means.比实际意义更有用
201What the word arm is.臂之谓何.
202It, you can be like hurt hurt, but what do we do with an arm?它,你可以像伤害, 但我们怎么办与手臂?
203It doesn't work like that.岂不效哉.
204Actions are more important than words.行动比言语更重要。
205And this sort of progress is something that's key for learning这种进步是学习的关键
206a language effectively.一种有效的语言。
207So what I presented to you today is four principles and some key points,我今天向你们介绍的是四项原则和一些要点,
208some things that maybe you've heard, some things that maybe were new to有些事情也许你听说过, 有些事情也许是新来的
209you, the parent speaker, probably all these things are essential.你,家长演讲者, 可能所有这些事情都很重要。
210You cannot remove one and hope that the others will come with it or that你不能删除一个 希望其他人会带着它,或者
211you focus only on one of them and completely disregard the others.你只关注其中之一 完全无视其他。
212It is important to push yourselves to your limits, to go out there.重要的是要把自己逼到极限 出去
213And this is going to sound like a great cliche once again, but to这听起来就像一个伟大的陈词滥调 再次,但
214push yourself, go out there and actually experience the language firsthand.推自己,到那里去 亲身体验语言。
215No school, no institution, no book can ever give you that.没有学校,没有机构, 没有书可以给你。
216And just on the very end, I would like to dispel one last thing that I've最后,我想消除最后一件事
217been told in past that I've heard people tell me or people tell other过去我听说有人告诉我 或者有人告诉别人
218people that it's talent that's required.人们需要的是才华
219That for being able to learn language, you need talent.因为能够学习语言,你需要才能。
220You need to be able to have this magical skill within you that you're born with.你需要拥有你天生的神奇技能
221It's not true.非实非实.
222Anyone can learn a language.任何人都可以学习一种语言。
223Anyone I've known when they push themselves hard enough, they're able to speak a language.任何我认识的人,当他们用力地推自己,他们能够说一种语言.
224Some people are far superior to me and there are probably hundreds有人比我强得多 可能还有几百人
225and millions of like that, but it is that thing that you push yourselves和数百万这样的, 但这是的东西,你推自己
226that differentiates you from other people, this push.让你和别人不同 这推力
227So don't be scared to push.所以不要害怕推车。
228Thank you.谢谢
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