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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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- There's an interesting illustration of this.
- 举一个有趣的例子。
- I have to go slightly obscure, but really you should seek it out.
- 可能这个例子没那么直观，但是你应该可以理解。
- There's a movie by the Canadian film director Denys Arcand
- 加拿大导演Denys Arcand执导的一部电影，
- read out in English on the page, "Dennis Ar-cand," if you want to look him up.
- 如果有兴趣，你可以上网查一下，英语是Dennis Ar-cand。
- He did a film called "Jesus of Montreal."
- 他拍了一部电影叫《蒙特利尔的耶稣》。
- And many of the characters are vibrant, funny, passionate, interesting French-Canadian, French-speaking women.
- 电影中很多角色都是说法语的法语区加拿大女人，充满活力，为人风趣，充满热情。
- There's one scene closest to the end, where they have to take a friend to an Anglophone hospital.
- 在影片结尾有一个场景，他们要送一个朋友到讲英语的医院。
- In the hospital, they have to speak English.
- 在医院里他们需要讲英语。
- Now, they speak English but it's not their native language, they'd rather not speak English.
- 她们会说英语，但是不是母语，她们不太愿意讲英语。
- And they speak it more slowly, they have accents, they're not idiomatic.
- 她们的语速慢了下来，讲的话有口音并且显得生硬。
- Suddenly these characters that you've fallen in love with become husks of themselves, they're shadows of themselves.
- 突然间，这些你已经爱上的角色变成了空空的躯壳，变成了她们自己的影子。
- To go into a culture and to only ever process people through that kind of skrim curtain is to never truly get the culture.
- 了解一种文化，如果只是透过表面那一层面纱，我们是无法真正理解的。
- And so to the extent that hundreds of languages will be left,
- 所以既然未来几百种语言会存活下来，
- one reason to learn them is because they are tickets to being able to participate in the culture of the people who speak them,
- 学外语的一个理由就是它是我们理解和融入一种文化的一张门票，
- just by virtue of the fact that it is their code. So that's one reason.
- 因为语言就是打开文化的钥匙。以上是第一个原因。
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