英语真的是…最容易学的语言吗？
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剧集目录
| 集 | 标题 | 时长 |
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| P1 | 英语真的是…最容易学的语言吗？ 带字幕版 | 12:31 |
| P2 | 英语真的是…最容易学的语言吗？ 没字幕版（听力练习） | 12:31 |
P1 · 英语真的是…最容易学的语言吗？ p01 带字幕版 (P1)
字幕摘录
| 时间 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 0:00 | Hey guys, it's Lia. | 嘿,伙计们,这是利亚。 |
| 0:01 | Welcome back to another episode of my English podcast. | 欢迎回到我的英语播客的另一集 |
| 0:05 | Today we're going to be talking about something that I think most people have thought about | 今天我们将要谈论一些 我想大多数人已经想到的事情 |
| 0:10 | at least once in their life, which is what is the hardest language in the world to learn? | 他们一生中至少有一次,这就是世界上最难学习的语言吗? |
| 0:17 | Now when you hear this question, maybe you think of Chinese, of Arabic, or Korean, or German, | 现在,当你听到这个问题, 也许你想到中文, 阿拉伯语,或韩语,或德语, |
| 0:26 | or many other languages out there, but what if I told you that there isn't actually one | 或很多其他语言在那里, 但如果我告诉你,实际上没有一个 |
| 0:32 | hardest language to learn? | 难学的语言? |
| 0:34 | One language could be extremely difficult for one person to learn | 一个人可能很难学一种语言 |
| 0:39 | and relatively easy to learn for another person. | 和相对容易为他人学习。 |
| 0:43 | A huge part of what makes a certain language | 一个很大的部分 使某种语言 |
展开字幕全文（215 条）
| 序号 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hey guys, it's Lia. | 嘿,伙计们,这是利亚。 |
| 2 | Welcome back to another episode of my English podcast. | 欢迎回到我的英语播客的另一集 |
| 3 | Today we're going to be talking about something that I think most people have thought about | 今天我们将要谈论一些 我想大多数人已经想到的事情 |
| 4 | at least once in their life, which is what is the hardest language in the world to learn? | 他们一生中至少有一次,这就是世界上最难学习的语言吗? |
| 5 | Now when you hear this question, maybe you think of Chinese, of Arabic, or Korean, or German, | 现在,当你听到这个问题, 也许你想到中文, 阿拉伯语,或韩语,或德语, |
| 6 | or many other languages out there, but what if I told you that there isn't actually one | 或很多其他语言在那里, 但如果我告诉你,实际上没有一个 |
| 7 | hardest language to learn? | 难学的语言? |
| 8 | One language could be extremely difficult for one person to learn | 一个人可能很难学一种语言 |
| 9 | and relatively easy to learn for another person. | 和相对容易为他人学习。 |
| 10 | A huge part of what makes a certain language | 一个很大的部分 使某种语言 |
| 11 | difficult is based on what languages you already know. | 困难是基于你已经知道的语言。 |
| 12 | If you're not a native English speaker, | 如果你不是英语母语 |
| 13 | let's just pretend for a moment, let's use our imaginations here, pretend that English is your | 让我们假装一下,让我们在这里用我们的想象, 假装英语是你的 |
| 14 | first language and you wanted to learn a language like Spanish. | 第一语言 而你想学西班牙语 |
| 15 | Well you would find that there are | 你会发现,有 |
| 16 | a lot of similarities and some things might come a bit easier for you. | 有很多相似之处,有些事情 可能会变得更容易一些。 |
| 17 | There are a lot of vocab words | 有很多词 |
| 18 | that look pretty similar like important, importante, and there are many other examples of this. | 也有许多其他例子。 |
| 19 | I'm not | 我没有 |
| 20 | gonna make you guys listen to my terrible Spanish accent, but the point is even if you've never | 你们会听我的西班牙口音 但重点是 即使你们从来没有 |
| 21 | studied Spanish before, maybe you weren't exposed to a lot of Spanish, you don't know anyone who | 以前学过西班牙语,也许你没有接触过很多西班牙语,你不认识谁 |
| 22 | speaks Spanish, but you might find it a bit easier to learn the language or to study the language. | 说西班牙语,但你可能会发现学习语言或学习语言比较容易。 |
| 23 | However, if your native language is English and you try to learn a language like Chinese, then that | 但是,如果你的母语是英语, 你试图学习一种语言 像中文,那么 |
| 24 | would be a totally different story. | 这将是一个完全不同的故事。 |
| 25 | That would be very different and some people would say it would | 那不一样 有些人会说 |
| 26 | be more difficult because in Chinese you have a totally different writing system. | 更难 因为中文的写法完全不同 |
| 27 | You don't share | 你没有分享 |
| 28 | the same alphabet. | 同样的字母表。 |
| 29 | You have to learn all the different tones and the grammar is totally | 你必须学习所有不同的音调 语法是完全的 |
| 30 | different and there aren't really many loan words or words that you know kind of sound similar | 不同的,没有太多的贷款词 或字,你知道一种声音相似 |
| 31 | between English and Chinese. | 英文和中文之间。 |
| 32 | So why does it feel like some languages are a bit easier for you to | 那么,为什么感觉一些语言 是有点容易你 |
| 33 | learn while some others are a bit more difficult and why does this depend on the languages that | 学习,而另一些则比较困难。 |
| 34 | you know? | 你知道吗? |
| 35 | Well this all comes down to language families. | 这一切都归结于语言家庭。 |
| 36 | Individual languages are actually | 个人语言其实是 |
| 37 | grouped into language families. | 分为语言家庭。 |
| 38 | So languages like English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, | 因此,语言如英语,德语,法语,意大利语,西班牙语, |
| 39 | they all are from the same language family. | 他们都来自同一个语言家庭。 |
| 40 | They're Indo-European languages. | 它们是印欧语系语言. |
| 41 | Although if you were | 不过如果你是 |
| 42 | really to get into it, if you you know went into more specifics, then you would see that they kind | 真正进入它, 如果你知道去 更具体, 然后你会看到他们 |
| 43 | of branch out into different sub-categories like English and German are Germanic languages and then | 如英语和德语是德语,然后 |
| 44 | you have the Romance languages like Spanish, Italian, and French. | 你有西班牙语、意大利语和法语等罗马语。 |
| 45 | Languages are put into these | 将语言纳入其中 |
| 46 | groups based off of their ancestors basically. | 基本上基于祖先的团体。 |
| 47 | Like for the Romance languages they all basically | 就像浪漫语言一样 它们基本上都是 |
| 48 | derived from Latin so they share a lot in common and if you are a Spanish speaker it might be | 源自拉丁语,所以他们有很多共同点 如果你是西班牙语,它可能是 |
| 49 | pretty easy for you to learn Italian and French. | 你学意大利语和法语很容易 |
| 50 | And of course there are other language families. | 当然还有其他语言家庭。 |
| 51 | You have the Sino-Tibetan family which includes Chinese languages and dialects and Burmese and | 中藏语系包括汉语和方言 缅语和缅语 |
| 52 | many other languages. | 其他多种语言。 |
| 53 | So if English is your first language and maybe the only language that you | 所以,如果英语是您的第一语言, 也许唯一的语言你 |
| 54 | speak and you wanted to learn a language outside of the Indo-European language family, something | 你想在印欧语系以外学一种语言 |
| 55 | like Chinese for example, then yeah it would be a little bit more difficult because you have less | 比如说中国人,那就更难了 因为你少了 |
| 56 | to go off on. | 继续 |
| 57 | You don't really have that common ancestor. | 你没有那种共同的祖先 |
| 58 | There aren't that many things that | 没有那么多事情 |
| 59 | English and Chinese share in common so it's going to take a little bit extra effort. | 英文和中文是共同的 所以需要多加努力 |
| 60 | This brings us | 这给我们带来了 |
| 61 | to a term that maybe you've heard of before which is language distance. | 或许你听说过的语言距离 |
| 62 | I think this term is pretty | 我觉得这个词挺漂亮的 |
| 63 | self-explanatory. | 不言自明. |
| 64 | You have language and distance. | 你有语言和距离 |
| 65 | It basically is just referring to how far apart | 它基本上只是指 有多远的距离 |
| 66 | two languages are. | 两种语言是。 |
| 67 | So if we talk about English and Chinese they're very far apart because they | 所以,如果我们谈论英语和中文, 他们相距甚远,因为他们 |
| 68 | don't even share the same language family. | 连同一个语言家庭都一样 |
| 69 | When two languages have a lot of language distance | 当两种语言有很长的语言距离 |
| 70 | it essentially just means that you have a lot more to learn from scratch. | 基本上意味着你还有更多的东西要学 |
| 71 | This difference or | 这种区别或 |
| 72 | distance between languages could be many different things. | 语言之间的距离可能是很多不同的事物. |
| 73 | It could be vocabulary. | 可能是词汇 |
| 74 | We kind of touched | 我们有点感动 |
| 75 | on this with English and Spanish. | 上面写着英文和西班牙文 |
| 76 | There are a lot of vocabulary terms that feel similar so you know | 有很多词汇 感觉相似,所以你知道 |
| 77 | they don't really have that much of a distance there but there are other languages where | 他们没有那么远 但还有其他语言 |
| 78 | vocabulary is totally different like English and Chinese and also pronunciation. | 词汇与英语和汉语完全不同,也有发音. |
| 79 | There are so many | 有这么多 |
| 80 | sounds used in world languages. | 世界语言中使用的声音。 |
| 81 | There are so many sounds in this world but not every language is | 世界上有很多声音,但不是每种语言 |
| 82 | going to use all of those sounds. | 使用所有这些声音。 |
| 83 | So maybe if two languages are really different it means that you | 所以如果两种语言真的不同 那意味着你 |
| 84 | learn a lot of new sounds. | 学了很多新声音。 |
| 85 | And then you have the writing system of the language. | 然后你有了语言的书写系统。 |
| 86 | This can be | 这可能是 |
| 87 | a huge point of language distance between languages. | 语言之间巨大的语言距离。 |
| 88 | So for something like English and | 所以,对于像英语和 |
| 89 | Spanish and Italian they all share the same alphabet. | 西班牙语和意大利语都是相同的字母。 |
| 90 | The letters look the same which makes | 字母看起来是一样的 这使得 |
| 91 | it a lot easier for for example someone like me. | 比起像我这样的人 容易多了 |
| 92 | If I'm a native English speaker and I'm learning | 如果我是讲英语的本地人,我在学习 |
| 93 | Spanish, well it's kind of like one less thing that I really have to worry about through my | 西班牙语,嗯,这有点像 少一件事,我真的很担心 通过我的 |
| 94 | language learning journey. | 语言学习历程. |
| 95 | But then you have languages like Russian, Chinese, Korean, Japanese | 但是你们有俄语、汉语、韩语、日语 |
| 96 | and so many others that don't share the same alphabet which kind of makes it a bit more | 如此之多的其他人 都不一样的字母 |
| 97 | difficult for someone like me to learn. | 像我这样的人很难学 |
| 98 | There are many other examples of how languages can be | 还有许多其他例子说明语言如何 |
| 99 | from each other. | 从彼此。 |
| 100 | For example if you're a native Chinese speaker and you're learning English, | 比如说,如果你是本地汉语使用者 并且学习英语 |
| 101 | well you might be really frustrated by English verbs. | 你可能会因为英语动词而感到沮丧 |
| 102 | You might find that really difficult | 你可能会觉得这很困难 |
| 103 | because in Chinese the verbs don't really change in the same way that English verbs do when you | 因为汉语中的动词与英语动词的改变方式不同 |
| 104 | talk about different tenses. | 谈论不同的紧张。 |
| 105 | And an English speaker might feel overwhelmed by Chinese writing system | 说英语的人可能会觉得 被中文的写作系统压抑 |
| 106 | or the tones or how flexible word order and grammar can be in Chinese. | 或音调,或者汉语中词序和语法的灵活度. |
| 107 | So it really goes both | 所以,它真的去两个 |
| 108 | ways. | 办法 |
| 109 | But this doesn't mean that one language is objectively more difficult than the other. | 但这并不意味着一种语言在客观上比另一种语言更困难. |
| 110 | It just means that there's a larger language distance. | 只是表示语言距离较大. |
| 111 | There are things based off of your | 有些东西是靠你的 |
| 112 | own linguistic knowledge that can make another language more difficult for you personally to | 拥有语言知识,可以让你个人更难使用另一种语言 |
| 113 | Honestly there are a few other reasons why I don't like classifying languages into different | 老实说,我不喜欢把语言分为不同的 还有其他几个原因 |
| 114 | difficulty levels. | 难度水平 。 |
| 115 | I don't like referring to languages as more difficult than other languages | 我不喜欢说语言比其他语言更难 |
| 116 | because first of all I don't think that makes sense. | 因为首先我觉得这不合理 |
| 117 | I don't think that languages themselves | 我不认为语言本身 |
| 118 | are inherently difficult in the first place. | 本来就很困难 |
| 119 | I mean if they really were then native speakers | 我是说如果他们真的是本地人的话 |
| 120 | of certain languages would have a really hard time learning that language as a child. | 在某些语言中 学习这种语言很困难 |
| 121 | But as we know | 但据我们所知 |
| 122 | like children naturally pick up on the language. | 像孩子自然地 拾起的语言。 |
| 123 | So it's not that the language itself is difficult. | 因此,语言本身并非困难. |
| 124 | It really just depends on your background. | 这真的取决于你的背景。 |
| 125 | It depends on the languages that you already know. | 这取决于你已经知道的语言。 |
| 126 | That is what makes a certain language more difficult to learn. | 这使得某种语言更难学习. |
| 127 | So it all really depends | 所以一切都取决于 |
| 128 | on the person. | 一个人。 |
| 129 | There is no such thing as the hardest language in the world. | 世上没有最难的语言 |
| 130 | And I also don't | 我也不喜欢 |
| 131 | like saying the hardest language in the world because I think it sounds really intimidating. | 就像说世界上最难的语言 因为我觉得这听起来很吓人 |
| 132 | I think everyone should at least have the opportunity to try and learn a new language. | 我认为每个人至少应该有机会尝试并学习新语言. |
| 133 | But if we keep referring to certain languages as difficult or the hardest language in the world | 但如果我们继续把某些语言称为 世界上最难或最难的语言 |
| 134 | I think it can stop a lot of people from learning a language that they're honestly pretty interested | 我觉得这可以阻止很多人学习 他们真正感兴趣的语言 |
| 135 | in. | 进去 |
| 136 | And I think the way that we think can also affect our real lives and it can affect the way | 我认为我们思考的方式 也会影响我们的真实生活 也会影响我们的方式 |
| 137 | that we learn. | 我们学习。 |
| 138 | So if you're always thinking in the back of your mind that this language is really | 所以如果你总在脑后想着 这种语言真的 |
| 139 | difficult, it's nearly impossible to learn, everybody says so, then when you're actually | 很难,几乎是不可能学习的, 每个人都说,那么当你真的 |
| 140 | trying to learn the language, when you're actually studying, this can kind of become a barrier in | 尝试学习语言, 当你实际上学习, 这可能会成为一种障碍 |
| 141 | your mind and it can prevent you from living up to your true learning potential. | 让你无法发挥真正的学习潜力 |
| 142 | When I started | 当我开始 |
| 143 | learning Chinese, a lot of people around me told me that it would be impossible, there's no way I | 学中文,我身边很多人告诉我,这是不可能的,不可能 |
| 144 | would ever be able to speak Chinese or have a conversation in Chinese. | 可以说中文或者用中文交谈 |
| 145 | And the people told me | 人们告诉我 |
| 146 | that my grades would suffer from it, my GPA would drop because the class is so hard, you're gonna | 我的成绩会受苦,我的GPA会下降 因为班级太难,你会 |
| 147 | fail, really negative things. | 失败,非常消极的东西。 |
| 148 | But in my experience, languages that are really different from my native | 但根据我的经验, 语言 真正不同 我的本土 |
| 149 | language, which is English, were actually a bit easier for me to understand. | 语言,即英语,实际上对我来说更容易理解。 |
| 150 | And I know this sounds | 我知道这听起来 |
| 151 | like it's contradicting the whole main point of this video, you know, we talked about language | 就像这和这段视频的要点相矛盾 我们谈论语言 |
| 152 | distance and all of those things, but this is purely just my own experience. | 距离和所有这些东西, 但这只是我自己的经验。 |
| 153 | Like when I was | 就像当我是 |
| 154 | learning Spanish and Italian and French, those languages, I honestly got frustrated a lot, I got | 学西班牙语、意大利语和法语, 那些语言,我真的很沮丧,我得到了 |
| 155 | confused a lot because there were so many things that were similar. | 因为有很多事情是相似的 |
| 156 | You know, there are a lot of | 你知道,有很多 |
| 157 | vocabulary words that are the same, a lot of, you know, just word order, a lot of grammar that is | 词汇是相同的, 很多,你知道,只是词序, 很多语法,这就是 |
| 158 | really similar, but they're not totally the same, right? | 真的很相似,但他们不是完全一样,对不对? |
| 159 | They're different languages. | 他们是不同的语言。 |
| 160 | So sometimes | 所以有时候 |
| 161 | I would think that I knew something because it seemed right, it seemed familiar, but I ended up | 我觉得我知道一些事情 因为它看起来是正确的, 它看起来熟悉, 但我最后 |
| 162 | getting it totally wrong. | 弄错了 |
| 163 | I ended up misunderstanding the whole point of the sentence or the speech or | 我最后误解了整个句子的要点 或演讲,或 |
| 164 | it was honestly really frustrating. | 真的很让人沮丧 |
| 165 | It was like I had the English logic in the back of my mind the | 就像我脑后有英国逻辑 |
| 166 | whole time I was trying to learn those languages. | 我一直想学这些语言 |
| 167 | But later on, when I started learning languages | 但后来,当我开始学习语言 |
| 168 | like Chinese and Korean, it was a totally different experience. | 就像中国和韩国一样,这是完全不同的经历。 |
| 169 | Because of that language | 因为那个语言 |
| 170 | distance between English and Chinese or Korean, it was basically impossible for me to get it mixed | 英文和中文或韩文之间的距离 基本上我不可能搞混 |
| 171 | up with English. | 与英语。 |
| 172 | You know, I had basically nothing to go off of. | 你知道,我基本上没有什么可放弃的。 |
| 173 | I had to get rid of all the English | 我不得不摆脱所有的英国人 |
| 174 | logic in my mind. | 逻辑在我的脑海里。 |
| 175 | It was like starting over and that honestly made it a bit easier for me to | 就像重新开始 老实说 让我更容易 |
| 176 | become fluent in those languages. | 成为流利的这些语言。 |
| 177 | I mean, that's just my own experience. | 我的意思是,这只是我自己的经验。 |
| 178 | But again, it's something | 再说一遍,这是件好事 |
| 179 | to keep in mind. | 记住。 |
| 180 | If you're learning a language or you want to learn a language, but you hear a lot | 如果你正在学习一种语言,或者你想学习一种语言, 但你听到很多 |
| 181 | of people say stuff like, oh, that's the hardest language in the world. | 人们说的东西,哦, 这是世界上最难的语言。 |
| 182 | It's impossible to become | 这不可能成为 |
| 183 | fluent in that language. | 流利的语言。 |
| 184 | Don't let that scare you. | 别让你害怕 |
| 185 | This goes the other way too. | 事情也变了 |
| 186 | Like maybe you've | 就像也许你已经 |
| 187 | heard some people say English is the easiest language in the world. | 有人说英语是世界上最简单的语言 |
| 188 | Well, if you're struggling | 如果你在挣扎 |
| 189 | with it, it doesn't mean that something's wrong with you. | 不代表你有什么不对劲 |
| 190 | It doesn't mean that you can't learn | 这并不意味着你不能学习 |
| 191 | English. | 英语。 |
| 192 | It probably just means that your native language or the other languages that you know | 它可能只是意味着你的母语 或其他你知道的语言 |
| 193 | are really different from English. | 和英语不同 |
| 194 | You know, if you're a native Chinese speaker learning English, | 你知道,如果你是一个本地的 讲英语的中国人, |
| 195 | then yeah, it's probably going to be a bit more difficult than if you were a native Spanish | 是啊,这可能会是有点困难 比如果你是一个本地的西班牙人 |
| 196 | speaker. | 扬声器。 |
| 197 | I actually think it's really important for us to learn languages that are really different | 其实我觉得学习不同语言对我们很重要 |
| 198 | from the languages we already speak because by doing so, you can expand your ways of thinking | 从我们已经说的语言 因为这样做,你可以 扩大你的思维方式 |
| 199 | and start to see the world in a new way. | 开始以新的方式看待世界 |
| 200 | Okay guys, I hope you enjoyed this episode. | 好吧,伙计们,我希望你们喜欢这一集。 |
| 201 | Don't forget to | 别忘了 |
| 202 | like and follow if you did and also let me know how you feel about this topic. | 喜欢跟随,如果你这样做, 也让我知道你对这个话题的感受。 |
| 203 | You know, I feel | 我觉得 |
| 204 | like there are going to be some people who disagree with me. | 就像有人会反对我 |
| 205 | They're probably going to be some people | 他们可能会是一些人 |
| 206 | who think there are some languages that are more difficult than others. | 他们认为有些语言比其他语言更困难. |
| 207 | Just let me know in the | 只要告诉我在 |
| 208 | comments what languages are harder for you to learn. | 评论哪些语言更难学习。 |
| 209 | What languages do you speak? | 你讲什么语言? |
| 210 | What do you | 你怎么样 |
| 211 | want to learn? | 想学吗? |
| 212 | Just let me know in the comments. | 在评论中告诉我。 |
| 213 | I'm very interested to hear your guys' perspective, | 我很有兴趣听到你们的观点 |
| 214 | but that's going to be it for today and I will see you guys in the next one. | 但今天就到此为止了 下次见 |
| 215 | Okay, buh-bye. | 好吧,再见。 |
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P2 · 英语真的是…最容易学的语言吗？ p02 没字幕版（听力练习） (P2)
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| 时间 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 0:00 | Hey guys, it's Lia. | 嘿,伙计们,这是利亚。 |
| 0:01 | Welcome back to another episode of my English podcast. | 欢迎回到我的英语播客的另一集 |
| 0:05 | Today we're going to be talking about something that I think most people have thought about at | 今天我们将谈论一些 我想大多数人已经想到的东西 |
| 0:11 | least once in their life, which is what is the hardest language in the world to learn? | 他们一生中最难学的语言是什么? |
| 0:17 | Now when you hear this question, maybe you think of Chinese, of Arabic, or Korean, or German, | 现在,当你听到这个问题, 也许你想到中文, 阿拉伯语,或韩语,或德语, |
| 0:26 | or many other languages out there, but what if I told you that there isn't actually one hardest | 或很多其他语言在那里, 但如果我告诉你,实际上没有 最难的 |
| 0:33 | language to learn? | 要学习的语言? |
| 0:34 | One language could be extremely difficult for one person to learn | 一个人可能很难学一种语言 |
| 0:39 | and relatively easy to learn for another person. | 和相对容易为他人学习。 |
| 0:43 | A huge part of what makes a certain language | 一个很大的部分 使某种语言 |
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| 序号 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hey guys, it's Lia. | 嘿,伙计们,这是利亚。 |
| 2 | Welcome back to another episode of my English podcast. | 欢迎回到我的英语播客的另一集 |
| 3 | Today we're going to be talking about something that I think most people have thought about at | 今天我们将谈论一些 我想大多数人已经想到的东西 |
| 4 | least once in their life, which is what is the hardest language in the world to learn? | 他们一生中最难学的语言是什么? |
| 5 | Now when you hear this question, maybe you think of Chinese, of Arabic, or Korean, or German, | 现在,当你听到这个问题, 也许你想到中文, 阿拉伯语,或韩语,或德语, |
| 6 | or many other languages out there, but what if I told you that there isn't actually one hardest | 或很多其他语言在那里, 但如果我告诉你,实际上没有 最难的 |
| 7 | language to learn? | 要学习的语言? |
| 8 | One language could be extremely difficult for one person to learn | 一个人可能很难学一种语言 |
| 9 | and relatively easy to learn for another person. | 和相对容易为他人学习。 |
| 10 | A huge part of what makes a certain language | 一个很大的部分 使某种语言 |
| 11 | difficult is based on what languages you already know. | 困难是基于你已经知道的语言。 |
| 12 | If you're not a native English speaker, | 如果你不是英语母语 |
| 13 | let's just pretend for a moment, let's use our imaginations here, pretend that English is your | 让我们假装一下,让我们在这里用我们的想象, 假装英语是你的 |
| 14 | first language and you wanted to learn a language like Spanish. | 第一语言 而你想学西班牙语 |
| 15 | Well, you would find that there are | 你就会发现 |
| 16 | a lot of similarities and some things might come a bit easier for you. | 有很多相似之处,有些事情 可能会变得更容易一些。 |
| 17 | There are a lot of vocab words | 有很多词 |
| 18 | that look pretty similar, like important, importante, and there are many other examples of this. | 这看起来相当相似, 像重要,重要, 还有许多其他的例子。 |
| 19 | I'm not gonna make you guys listen to my terrible Spanish accent, but the point is even if you've | 我不会逼你们听我的西班牙口音 但重点是即使你们有 |
| 20 | never studied Spanish before, maybe you weren't exposed to a lot of Spanish, you don't know | 从来没有学习过西班牙语, 也许你没有接触 很多西班牙语,你不知道 |
| 21 | anyone who speaks Spanish, but you might find it a bit easier to learn the language or to study | 任何会说西班牙语的人,但你可能会发现 学习语言或学习比较容易 |
| 22 | the language. | 语言。 |
| 23 | However, if your native language is English and you try to learn a language like | 但是,如果你的母语是英语,你试图学习一种语言,比如: |
| 24 | Chinese, then that would be a totally different story. | 中文,那会是一个完全不同的故事。 |
| 25 | That would be very different and some | 那会很不一样,有些 |
| 26 | people would say it would be more difficult because in Chinese you have a totally different | 人们会说这更难 因为中文里你完全不一样 |
| 27 | writing system. | 书写系统。 |
| 28 | You don't share the same alphabet. | 你不一样的字母表 |
| 29 | You have to learn all the different tones and the | 你必须学习所有不同的音调和 |
| 30 | grammar is totally different and there aren't really many loan words or words that, you know, | 语法完全不同 而且没有太多的借词 或字,你知道, |
| 31 | kind of sound similar between English and Chinese. | 一种类似英文和中文的声音。 |
| 32 | So why does it feel like some languages are a bit | 所以为什么感觉有些语言有点 |
| 33 | easier for you to learn while some others are a bit more difficult and why does this depend on | 你更容易学习,而另一些则比较困难。 |
| 34 | the languages that you know? | 你知道的语言? |
| 35 | Well, this all comes down to language families. | 这都是语言家庭的事 |
| 36 | Individual languages | 个人语言 |
| 37 | are actually grouped into language families. | 实际分为语言类。 |
| 38 | So languages like English, German, French, Italian, | 所以英语,德语,法语,意大利语等语言, |
| 39 | Spanish, they all are from the same language family. | 西班牙语,他们都是来自同一个语言家庭。 |
| 40 | They're Indo-European languages. | 它们是印欧语系语言. |
| 41 | Although | 虽然 |
| 42 | if you were really to get into it, if you, you know, went into more specifics, then you would see | 如果你真的要进入其中, 如果你,你知道,去 更具体,然后你会看到 |
| 43 | that they kind of branch out into different sub-categories like English and German are | 他们分化成不同的亚类 比如英语和德语 |
| 44 | languages and then you have the Romance languages like Spanish, Italian, and French. | 还有西班牙语、意大利语和法语等罗马语。 |
| 45 | Languages are | 语文为: |
| 46 | put into these different groups based off of their ancestors basically. | 基本上从祖先的角度 将不同的群体纳入其中 |
| 47 | Like for the Romance languages | 喜欢罗马语 |
| 48 | they all basically derived from Latin so they share a lot in common and if you are a Spanish | 它们基本上都来源于拉丁语 所以它们有很多共同点 如果你是西班牙人 |
| 49 | speaker it might be pretty easy for you to learn Italian and French. | 演讲者,你学意大利语和法语可能很容易 |
| 50 | And of course there are other | 当然还有其他的 |
| 51 | language families. | 语言家庭。 |
| 52 | You have the Sino-Tibetan family which includes Chinese languages and dialects | 你有中藏语系 包括汉语和方言 |
| 53 | and Burmese and many other languages. | 以及缅甸语和许多其他语言。 |
| 54 | So if English is your first language and maybe the only | 所以如果英语是你们的第一语言 也许是唯一的语言 |
| 55 | language that you speak and you wanted to learn a language outside of the Indo-European language | 您所讲的语言, 您想要学习一种语言, 而不是印欧语言 |
| 56 | family, something like Chinese for example, then yeah it would be a little bit more difficult | 比如说,家庭,比如中国人, 那会比较难 |
| 57 | because you have less to go off on. | 因为你少了一点去。 |
| 58 | You don't really have that common ancestor. | 你没有那种共同的祖先 |
| 59 | There aren't | 没有 |
| 60 | that many things that English and Chinese share in common so it's going to take a little bit | 英国和中国有很多共同点 所以需要一点时间 |
| 61 | extra effort. | 额外的努力。 |
| 62 | This brings us to a term that maybe you've heard of before which is language | 这让我们想到一个你以前听说过的词 就是语言 |
| 63 | distance. | 距离 。 |
| 64 | I think this term is pretty self-explanatory. | 我认为这个术语相当不言自明。 |
| 65 | You have language and distance. | 你有语言和距离 |
| 66 | It basically is just referring to how far apart two languages are. | 它基本上只是指两种语言的距离有多远。 |
| 67 | So if we talk about English | 所以,如果我们谈论英语 |
| 68 | and Chinese they're very far apart because they don't even share the same language family. | 他们和中文相距甚远 因为他们甚至没有共同的语言家族 |
| 69 | When | 何时 |
| 70 | two languages have a lot of language distance it essentially just means that you have a lot more | 两种语言的距离很大 基本上意味着你有更多的语言 |
| 71 | to learn from scratch. | 从零开始学习。 |
| 72 | This difference or distance between languages could be many different things. | 语言之间的这种差异或距离可能是许多不同的事物. |
| 73 | It could be vocabulary. | 可能是词汇 |
| 74 | We kind of touched on this with English and Spanish. | 我们用英语和西班牙语谈到这个问题。 |
| 75 | There are a lot | 还有很多 |
| 76 | of vocabulary terms that feel similar so they don't really have that much of a distance there | 词汇的词汇,感觉相似,所以没有那么远 |
| 77 | but there are other languages where vocabulary is totally different like English and Chinese. | 但也有其他语言的词汇与英语和汉语完全不同. |
| 78 | And also pronunciation. | 亦有发音. |
| 79 | There are so many sounds used in world languages. | 世界语言使用的声音太多. |
| 80 | There are so many sounds | 有这么多的声音 |
| 81 | in this world but not every language is going to use all of those sounds. | 但并不是每一种语言都会使用这些声音。 |
| 82 | So maybe if two | 所以也许两个 |
| 83 | languages are really different it means that you have to learn a lot of new sounds. | 语言确实不同 这意味着你必须学习很多新的声音。 |
| 84 | And then you | 还有你 |
| 85 | have the writing system of the language. | 拥有语言的书写系统。 |
| 86 | This can be a huge point of language distance between | 这可能是一个巨大的语言距离点 |
| 87 | languages. | 语言。 |
| 88 | So for something like English and Spanish and Italian they all share the same alphabet. | 因此,对于英语、西班牙语和意大利语之类的东西,他们都有相同的字母表。 |
| 89 | The letters look the same which makes it a lot easier for for example someone like me. | 字母看起来是一样的, 这使它变得更容易 比方说像我这样的人。 |
| 90 | If I'm a | 如果我是个 |
| 91 | native English speaker and I'm learning Spanish well it's kind of like one less thing that I | 讲英语的人和我在学西班牙语, 有点像一件事,我 |
| 92 | really have to worry about through my language learning journey. | 真正需要担心 通过我的语言学习旅程。 |
| 93 | But then you have languages | 但你有语言 |
| 94 | like Russian, Chinese, Korean, Japanese and so many others that don't share the same alphabet | 像俄语、汉语、韩语、日语 和很多不一样的字母 |
| 95 | which kind of makes it a bit more difficult for someone like me to learn. | 这让我这样的人更难学 |
| 96 | There are many other | 还有很多 |
| 97 | examples of how languages can be different from each other. | 以实例说明语言如何相互不同。 |
| 98 | For example if you're a native Chinese | 比如说,如果你是本地华人 |
| 99 | speaker and you're learning English well you might be really frustrated by English verbs. | 扬声器和你的英语学习得很好 你可能会因为英语动词而感到沮丧 |
| 100 | You might | 你会 |
| 101 | find that really difficult because in Chinese the verbs don't really change in the same way that | 觉得这很困难 因为用中文来说 动词并没有改变 |
| 102 | English verbs do when you talk about different tenses. | 谈论不同的时态时,英语动词会做. |
| 103 | And an English speaker might feel | 说英语的人可能会觉得 |
| 104 | overwhelmed by Chinese writing system or the tones or how flexible word order and grammar can be | 被汉语的书写系统或音调所淹没 或字序和语法多么灵活 |
| 105 | in Chinese. | 中文译名. |
| 106 | So it really goes both ways. | 因此,它真的走两条路。 |
| 107 | But this doesn't mean that one language is objectively | 但这并不意味着一种语言是客观的 |
| 108 | more difficult than the other. | 比其他更难 |
| 109 | It just means that there's a larger language distance. | 只是表示语言距离较大. |
| 110 | There are | 还有 |
| 111 | based off of your own linguistic knowledge that can make another language more difficult for you | 以你自己的语言知识为基础 让你的语言更加困难 |
| 112 | personally to learn. | 亲自学习 |
| 113 | Honestly there are a few other reasons why I don't like classifying languages | 老实说,我不喜欢分类语言还有其他几个原因 |
| 114 | into different difficulty levels. | 进入不同的难度水平。 |
| 115 | I don't like referring to languages as more difficult than | 我不喜欢把语言说成比 |
| 116 | other languages because first of all I don't think that makes sense. | 其他语言,因为首先我觉得这不合理。 |
| 117 | I don't think that languages | 我不认为语言 |
| 118 | themselves are inherently difficult in the first place. | 本身本来就很困难。 |
| 119 | I mean if they really were then | 我的意思是如果他们真的是那么 |
| 120 | native speakers of certain languages would have a really hard time learning that language as a child | 某些语言的母语语言在童年时期很难学会这种语言 |
| 121 | but as we know like children naturally pick up on the language. | 但正如我们所知道的那样 孩子们自然会懂语言 |
| 122 | So it's not that the language itself | 所以不是语言本身 |
| 123 | is difficult. | 很难 |
| 124 | It really just depends on your background. | 这真的取决于你的背景。 |
| 125 | It depends on the languages that | 这取决于语言 |
| 126 | you already know. | 你已经知道了。 |
| 127 | That is what makes a certain language more difficult to learn. | 这使得某种语言更难学习. |
| 128 | So it all really | 所以这一切都是真的 |
| 129 | depends on the person. | 取决于个人。 |
| 130 | There is no such thing as the hardest language in the world and I also don't | 世界上没有最难用的语言,我也没有 |
| 131 | like saying the hardest language in the world because I think it sounds really intimidating. | 就像说世界上最难的语言 因为我觉得这听起来很吓人 |
| 132 | I think everyone should at least have the opportunity to try and learn a new language | 我想大家至少应该有机会 尝试学习新语言 |
| 133 | but if we keep referring to certain languages as difficult or the hardest language in the world | 但如果我们继续把某些语言称为 世界上最难或最难的语言 |
| 134 | I think it can stop a lot of people from learning a language that they're honestly pretty interested | 我觉得这可以阻止很多人学习 他们真正感兴趣的语言 |
| 135 | in and I think the way that we think can also affect our real lives and it can affect the way | 我认为我们思考的方式 也会影响我们的真实生活 也会影响我们的方式 |
| 136 | that we learn. | 我们学习。 |
| 137 | So if you're always thinking in the back of your mind that this language is really | 所以如果你总在脑后想着 这种语言真的 |
| 138 | it's nearly impossible to learn everybody says so then when you're actually trying to learn | 几乎不可能学别人说 当你真正想学的时候 |
| 139 | language when you're actually studying this can kind of become a barrier in your mind and it can | 语言 当你在学习的时候 这可能会成为你脑海中的障碍 |
| 140 | prevent you from living up to your true learning potential. | 阻止你发挥真正的学习潜力。 |
| 141 | When I started learning Chinese a lot | 当我开始学习中文的时候 |
| 142 | of people around me told me that it would be impossible. | 我身边的人告诉我 这是不可能的 |
| 143 | There's no way I would ever be able | 我永远不可能 |
| 144 | to speak Chinese or have a conversation in Chinese and the people told me that my grades would suffer | 说汉语或者用汉语交谈 人们告诉我 我的成绩会不好 |
| 145 | from it my GPA would drop because the class is so hard you're gonna fail. | 我的GPA会下降 因为上课太难了 你会失败的 |
| 146 | Really negative things | 非常消极的东西 |
| 147 | but in my experience languages that are really different from my native language which is English | 但从我的经验来看, 语言与我的母语,即英语确实不同 |
| 148 | were actually a bit easier for me to understand and I know this sounds like it's contradicting the | 其实我比较容易理解 我知道这听起来有点矛盾 |
| 149 | whole main point of this video you know we talked about language distance and all of those things | 这段视频的要点 你知道我们谈论了语言距离和所有这些 |
| 150 | but this is purely just my own experience like when I was learning Spanish and Italian and French | 但这只是我自己的经验 就像我学习西班牙语、意大利语和法语时 |
| 151 | those languages I honestly got frustrated a lot I got confused a lot because there were so many | 那些语言,我真的很沮丧 我感到困惑,因为有很多 |
| 152 | things that were similar you know there are a lot of vocabulary words that are the same a lot of | 类似的东西,你知道有很多词汇 有很多相同的词汇 |
| 153 | you know just word order a lot of grammar that is really similar but they're not totally the same | 你知道,只是单词顺序 很多语法是真正相似的 但它们不是完全一样 |
| 154 | right they're different languages so sometimes I would think that I knew something because it | 对,他们是不同的语言 所以我有时会认为我知道一些东西,因为它 |
| 155 | seemed right it seemed familiar but I ended up getting it totally wrong I ended up misunderstanding | 看起来很眼熟 但我最后弄错了 我最后误会了 |
| 156 | the whole point of the sentence or the speech or whatever it was honestly really frustrating | 整个句子的要点 或演讲 或任何它诚实的 真正令人沮丧 |
| 157 | it was like I had the English logic in the back of my mind the whole time I was trying to learn | 就像我脑后有英国逻辑一样 |
| 158 | those languages but later on when I started learning languages like Chinese and Korean | 这些语言,但后来我开始学习 汉语和韩语 |
| 159 | it was a totally different experience because of that language distance between English and | 由于英语和英语之间的语言距离,这是一个完全不同的经历。 |
| 160 | Chinese or Korean it was basically impossible for me to get it mixed up with English you know I had | 中文或韩文,我根本不可能跟英文混 |
| 161 | basically nothing to go off of I had to get rid of all the English logic in my mind it was like | 基本上没什么可放弃的 我不得不摆脱所有 英国逻辑在我的脑海里,就像 |
| 162 | starting over and that honestly made it a bit easier for me to become fluent in those languages | 从头开始,老实说,这让我更容易 变得流利的那些语言。 |
| 163 | I mean that's just my own experience but again it's something to keep in mind if you're learning | 我的意思是,这只是我自己的经验... ...但是如果你正在学习... ...这是需要记住的东西 |
| 164 | a language or you want to learn a language but you hear a lot of people say stuff like oh that's | 一种语言或你想学习一种语言 但你听到很多人说 |
| 165 | the hardest language in the world it's impossible to become fluent in that language don't let that | 世界上最难用的语言 不可能流利 |
| 166 | scare you this goes the other way too like maybe you've heard some people say English is the | 吓唬你,这是另一条路 就像你听到有人说英语是 |
| 167 | easiest language in the world well if you're struggling with it it doesn't mean that something | 世界上最简单的语言 如果你在挣扎 它并不意味着什么 |
| 168 | is wrong with you it doesn't mean that you can't learn English it probably just means that your | 你错了 这并不意味着你不能学英语 可能只是意味着你 |
| 169 | native language or the other languages that you know are really different from English you know | 本地语言或你熟悉的其他语言与英语真的不同 |
| 170 | if you're a native Chinese speaker learning English then yeah it's probably going to be a bit more | 如果你是讲英语的本地汉语人 那可能要多一点 |
| 171 | difficult than if you were a native Spanish speaker I actually think it's really important for us to | 很难说,如果你是讲西班牙语的土生土长的人... ...我觉得这对我们很重要 |
| 172 | learn languages that are really different from the languages we already speak because by doing so | 学习与我们所讲语言不同的语言 因为这样做 |
| 173 | you can expand your ways of thinking and start to see the world in a new way okay guys I hope you | 你可以扩大你的思维方式 开始以新的方式看待世界 |
| 174 | enjoyed this episode don't forget to like and follow if you did and also let me know how you | 喜欢这集 别忘了喜欢跟随 如果你喜欢 也让我知道你是如何 |
| 175 | feel about this topic you know I feel like there are going to be some people who disagree with me | 感受一下这个话题,你知道的,我觉得 将会有人反对我 |
| 176 | they're probably going to be some people who think there are some languages that are more difficult | 他们可能会是一些人 谁认为有一些语言 比较困难 |
| 177 | than others you just let me know in the comments what languages are harder for you to learn what | 你只要在评论中告诉我 什么语言更难让你学会 |
| 178 | languages do you speak what do you want to learn just let me know in the comments I'm very interested | 你讲什么语言,你想学什么 只要让我在评论中知道,我很感兴趣 |
| 179 | to hear your guys' perspective but that's gonna be it for today and I will see you guys in the | 听听你手下的观点 但今天就到此为止了 我会看到你们 |
| 180 | next one okay bye bye. | 下一个再见 |
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