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英语正迅速成为世界通用语言，同步翻译技术也在逐年提高。那么为什么还要学习一门外语呢？美国哥伦比亚大学教授、语言学家约翰·麦克沃特分享了学习一门不熟悉的语言的四个好处。
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- The language I'm speaking right now is on its way to becoming the world's universal language, for better or for worse.
- 我现在说的英语正逐渐变成全球通用语言，这有好处也有弊端。
- Let's face it, it's the language of the internet, it's the language of finance,
- 我们会认同，这是互联网标准语言，是金融界通用语言，
- it's the language of air traffic control, of popular music, diplomacy -- English is everywhere.
- 是空中管制标准语言，流行音乐，外交活动。英语无处不在。
- Now, Mandarin Chinese is spoken by more people,
- 实际上，说汉语的人数更多一些，
- but more Chinese people are learning English than English speakers are learning Chinese.
- 但是学英语的中国人要比学汉语的英语母语者要多。
- Last I heard, there are two dozen universities in China right now teaching all in English. English is taking over.
- 我之前听说，现在中国有二十多所大学使用纯英语教学。英语已占统治地位。
- And in addition to that, it's been predicted that at the end of the century almost all of the languages that exist now
- 除此之外，预计在本世纪末期，绝大多数现存的语言，
- there are about 6,000 -- will no longer be spoken.
- 大约6000种，将会失传。
- There will only be some hundreds left.
- 只会有几百种剩下。
- And on top of that, it's at the point where instant translation of live speech is not only possible, but it gets better every year.
- 另一方面，现在同传翻译不仅已经成为可能，而且每年都在变得更好。
- The reason I'm reciting those things to you is
- 我跟大家说这么多，
- because I can tell that we're getting to the point where a question is going to start being asked, which is:
- 是因为我要引出一个问题，一个大家或许已经在问的问题，就是：
- Why should we learn foreign languages -- other than if English happens to be foreign to one?
- 为什么我们需要学习除英语的外语？
- Why bother to learn another one when it's getting to the point where almost everybody in the world will be able to communicate in one?
- 既然很快英语会成为通用语言，为什么还要去学习新的语言呢？
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