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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。
n. 命令，诫命，需要，祈使语气
adj. 命
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- Second reason: it's been shown that if you speak two languages, dementia is less likely to set in,
- 第二个原因：有研究指出，同时讲两种语言的人更不容易痴呆，
- and that you are probably a better multitasker.
- 而且你可能更加的擅长多线操作。
- And these are factors that set in early,
- 这些都是目前的研究结论
- and so that ought to give you some sense of when to give junior or juniorette lessons in another language.
- 能够给你一些参考，帮助你决定什么时候让孩子们接触新的语言。
- Bilingualism is healthy. And then, third -- languages are just an awful lot of fun.
- 双语教学有益健康。然后，第三点语言本身非常的有意思。
- Much more fun than we're often told.
- 比人们一般认为的要有意思的多。
- So for example, Arabic: "kataba," he wrote, "yaktubu," he writes, she writes. "Uktub," write, in the imperative.
- 例如在阿拉伯语中“kataba”表示“他写了”，“yaktubu”表示“他写，她写”。“Uktub”，是祈使句中“写”的意思。
- What do those things have in common?
- 这些有什么共同之处呢？
- All those things have in common the consonants sitting in the middle like pillars.
- 这几个单词的共同之处在于词里面都有同样的辅音，构成主体。
- They stay still, and the vowels dance around the consonants.
- 它们保持不变，元音围绕着辅音变化。
- Who wouldn't want to roll that around in their mouths?
- 谁不想多说这些单词几遍呢？
- You can get that from Hebrew, you can get that from Ethiopia's main language, Amharic. That's fun.
- 你能在希伯来语中找到这些，你能在埃塞俄比亚的主要语言阿姆哈拉语中找到。太有意思了。
- Or languages have different word orders.
- 不同语言的语序使不同的。
- Learning how to speak with different word order is like driving on the different side of a street if you go to certain country,
- 当你学习语序不同的语言时，就像到某些国家，在道路另一侧开车，
- or the feeling that you get when you put Witch Hazel around your eyes and you feel the tingle.
- 又像是把薄荷涂在眼睛周围时，感受到的那种刺激感。
- A language can do that to you.
- 语言也能给你类似的感觉。
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| imperative | [im'perətiv] | |||
| certain | ['sə:tn] |
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