TED英語演講：如何在6個(gè)月內(nèi)學(xué)會(huì)一門外語
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How to learn any language in six months
演講者：Chris Lonsdale
/ 中英對(duì)照演講稿 /
Have you ever held a question in mind for so long that it becomes part of how you think?Maybe even part of who you are as a person?
你是否曾經(jīng)把一個(gè)問題留在心中很久，結(jié)果它已經(jīng)成為你的一種思路?甚至可能已經(jīng)成為你自己的一部分?
Well I've had a question in my mind for many, many years and that is: how can you speed up learning? Now, this is an interesting question because if you speed up learning you can spend less time at school. And if you learn really fast, you probably wouldn't have to go to school at all.
有一個(gè)問題我思考了很多很多年，就是：你怎樣才能加快自己學(xué)習(xí)的速度?這是一個(gè)很有趣的問題，因?yàn)槿绻憧梢约涌熳约旱膶W(xué)習(xí)速度，你就可以花更少時(shí)間在學(xué)校里。 如果你真的可以學(xué)習(xí)得特別快，你可能根本就不用去上學(xué)。
Now, when I was young, school was sort of okay but I found quite often that school got in the way of learning so I had this question in mind: how do you learn faster? And this began when I was very, very young. When I was about eleven years old I wrote a letter to researchers in the Soviet Union, asking about hypnopaedia, this is sleep learning, where you get a tape recorder, you put it beside your bed and it turns on in the middle of the night when you're sleeping, and you're supposed to be learning from this.
我小時(shí)候上學(xué)還湊合，但我常常發(fā)現(xiàn)上學(xué)會(huì)阻礙學(xué)習(xí)，因此在我心里面有了這樣一個(gè)問題：怎樣才能學(xué)得更快呢?(這個(gè)想法)在我很小時(shí)候已經(jīng)開始了，大約我11 歲時(shí)，我給前蘇聯(lián)的研究者寫了一封關(guān)于睡眠學(xué)習(xí)的信， 所謂“睡覺學(xué)習(xí)”，就是拿個(gè)磁帶錄音機(jī)放在你床邊， 等你入眠后機(jī)器開始播放磁帶，目的是通過這種方式來學(xué)習(xí)。
A good idea, unfortunately it doesn't work. But, hypnopaedia did open the doors to research in other areas and we've had incredible discoveries about learning that began with that first question.I went on from there to become passionate about psychology and I have been involved in psychology in many ways for the rest of my life up until this point.
這看似 一個(gè)好主意，不幸的是它行不通。但睡眠學(xué)習(xí)確實(shí)打開了研究其他領(lǐng)域的大門，并且我們從研究這個(gè)問題開始已經(jīng)有了一些驚人的發(fā)現(xiàn)。從那開始我對(duì)心理學(xué)充滿熱情，直到現(xiàn)在我已經(jīng)投入了幾十年的時(shí)間從事心理學(xué)相關(guān)的不同研究和工作。
In 1981 I took myself to China and I decided that I was going to be native level in Chinese inside two years.Now, you need to understand that in 1981, everybody thought Chinese was really, really difficult and that a westerner could study for ten years or more and never really get very good at it.And I also went in with a different idea which was: taking all of the conclusions from psychological research up to that point and applying them to the learning process.
1981年，我來到了中國, 并且決定在兩年內(nèi)我的漢語要達(dá)到像中文母語者一樣的水平。你需要明白的是, 在 20 世紀(jì) 80 年代初，所有人都認(rèn)為漢語是真的很難學(xué)，一個(gè)西方人可能學(xué)習(xí)10 年或以上也未必能學(xué)好。還有，我?guī)е环N不同的想法，就是把心理學(xué)對(duì)這個(gè)問題研究所得的全部結(jié)論運(yùn)用到我學(xué)習(xí)的過程當(dāng)中。
What was really cool was that in six months I was fluent in Mandarin Chinese and took a little bit longer to get up to native. But I looked around and I saw all of these people from different countries struggling terribly with Chinese, I saw Chinese people struggling terribly to learn English and other languages, and so my question got refined down to: how can you help a normal adult learn a new language quickly, easily and effectively?
特別棒的是, 我在六個(gè)月內(nèi)能說流利的中文，不久后，我達(dá)到了中文母語者的水平。但我看到周圍那些來自不同國家的人在為學(xué)習(xí)中文苦苦掙扎，中國人在為學(xué)習(xí)英文或其他語言苦苦掙扎，因此我的問題便細(xì)化到：怎樣幫助一位正常的成年人更快、更容易和有效地學(xué)會(huì)第二門語言。
Now this is a really, really important question in today's world. We have massive challenges with environment. We have massive challenges with social dislocation, with wars, all sorts of things going on and if we can't communicate we're really going to have difficulty solving these problems.So we need to be able to speak each other's languages. This is really, really important.
要強(qiáng)調(diào)的是，在今天的世界里這是一個(gè)非常非常重要的問題。我們需要面對(duì)大量的(有關(guān))環(huán)保問題的挑戰(zhàn)，我們需要面對(duì)很多社會(huì)混亂和戰(zhàn)爭的挑戰(zhàn)，各種各類事情在發(fā)生，如果我們不能溝通那我們將難以解決這些問題。因此，我們需要能夠說對(duì)方的語言。這真的非常重要。
The question then is how do you do that? Well, it's actually really easy. You look around for people who can already do it, you look for situations where it's already working and then you identify the principles and apply them. It's called modeling and I've been looking at language learning and modeling language learning for about fifteen to twenty years now.
接下來的問題是，怎樣做到?這實(shí)際上是很容易的?？纯茨阒車切┮呀?jīng)做到的人，尋找在什么情況下，它是有效的，識(shí)別這些原則后好好利用它們。這是一種高科技模仿，而我已經(jīng)用這種方法研究語言學(xué)習(xí)大約15到20年了。接著多年的觀察，我得到的結(jié)論是，任何一個(gè)成年人能在6個(gè)月內(nèi)把任何外語學(xué)得流利。
And my conclusion, my observation from this is that any adult can learn a second language to fluency inside six months.Now when I say this, most people think I'm crazy, this is not possible. So let me remind everybody of the history of human progress, it's all about expanding our limits.
吶，當(dāng)我說成年人能在6個(gè)月內(nèi)學(xué)會(huì)任何一種外語，大多數(shù)人都認(rèn)為我瘋了，這是不可能的。因此，先讓我提醒在座各位關(guān)于人類歷史的進(jìn)展，所有人類歷史都是在擴(kuò)展我們的極限。
In 1950 everybody believed that running one mile in four minutes was impossible and then Roger Bannister did it in 1956 and from there it's got shorter and shorter. 100 years ago everybody believed that heavy stuff doesn't fly。Except it does and we all know this. How does heavy stuff fly?We reorganize the materials using principles that we have learned from observing nature, birds in this case.
在20世紀(jì)50年代，所有人都相信跑出4分鐘1英里的成績是不可能的，后來羅杰?班尼斯特在1965年做到了，而從那開始跑1英里的時(shí)間變得越來越短。100年前，每個(gè)人都相信重的物體不能飛。它不但可以飛，而且我們大家都知道這個(gè)事實(shí)。那么，重物是怎樣飛的呢?我們觀察大自然的原理，在此是鳥飛行的原理，，根據(jù)這些我們重新組織材料來使重物可以飛。
And today we've gone ever further, so you can fly a car. You can buy one of these for a couple hundred thousand US dollars. We now have cars in the world that can fly.And there's a different way to fly that we've learned from squirrels.
如今，我們甚至走得更遠(yuǎn)，你可以駕駛一輛會(huì)飛的汽車。你可以花幾十萬美元購買一輛這樣的汽車。我們現(xiàn)在有了會(huì)飛的汽車了。在能飛的松鼠的身上我們學(xué)會(huì)了另一種不同的方式來飛。
So all you need to do is copy what a flying squirrel does, build a suit called a wing suit and off you go, you can fly like a squirrel.
你只要做的是去復(fù)制一只飛鼠如何飛的原理，建造一套翼服，你就可以像一只飛鼠那樣可以在天空中飛翔。
Now, most people, a lot of people, I wouldn't say everybody but a lot of people think they can't draw.However there are some key principles, five principles that you can apply to learning to draw and you can actually learn to draw in five days.So, if you draw like this, you learn these principles for five days and apply them and after five days you can draw something like this.
那么，大多數(shù)人，很多人，我不會(huì)說所有人，但很多人認(rèn)為他們不會(huì)畫畫。然而這里有一些重要的原則，5個(gè)原則你可以利用來學(xué)習(xí)畫畫并且實(shí)際上你可以在5天內(nèi)學(xué)會(huì)。如果你平時(shí)畫成這樣，那么你學(xué)習(xí)5天這些原則, 然后應(yīng)用它們，5天后，你可以畫成這樣。
Now I know this is true because that was my first drawing and after five days of applying these principles that was what I was able to do. And I looked at this and I went ‘wow,' so that's how I look like when I'm concentrating so intensely that my brain is exploding.
我知道這是真的，因?yàn)槟鞘俏业谝淮萎嫷模? 天后我應(yīng)用了這些原則，我可以做到這樣。當(dāng)我看著這個(gè)，我“哇”了一聲，那就是我非常強(qiáng)烈的專注，專注到我大腦快要爆炸的樣子呀!
So, anybody can learn to draw in five days and in the same way, with the same logic, anybody can learn a second language in six months.
因此，任何人都能夠用 5 天時(shí)間學(xué)會(huì)畫畫，同樣地，用同樣的方式和邏輯，任何人都可以在 6 個(gè)月內(nèi)學(xué)會(huì)一門外語。
How: there are five principles and seven actions.There may be a few more but these are absolutely core.And before I get into those I just want to talk about two myths, dispel two myths.
怎么做呢?有 5個(gè)原則和 7個(gè)行動(dòng)可以參考?？赡苡懈?，但這些絕對(duì)是核心部分。進(jìn)入這些點(diǎn)之前我想先說說兩個(gè)誤區(qū)并消除它們。
The first is that you need talent.Let me tell you about Zoe. Zoe came from Australia, went to Holland, was trying to learn Dutch, struggling a great deal and finally people were saying: ‘you're completely useless,' ‘you're not talented,' ‘give up,' ‘you're a waste of time' and she was very, very depressed.And then she came across these five principles, she moved to Brazil and she applied them and within six months she was fluent in Portuguese, so talent doesn't matter.
誤區(qū)一, 你需要有天賦。讓我跟你們說說關(guān)于佐伊的事情。佐伊是澳大利亞人，她去到荷蘭并嘗試學(xué)習(xí)荷蘭語。她非常掙扎，最后人們跟她說，“沒用的，”“你沒有天賦，”“還是放棄吧，”“你根本就是在浪費(fèi)時(shí)間。”她對(duì)此感到非常沮喪。后來，她無意中發(fā)現(xiàn)了這 5 個(gè)原則，去了巴西，并把這些原則應(yīng)用到她學(xué)習(xí)葡萄牙語中，6 個(gè)月內(nèi)，她可以說流利的葡萄牙語了。因此，天賦不重要。
People also think that immersion in a new country is the way to learn a language. But look around Hong Kong, look at all the westerners who've been here for ten years, who don't speak a word of Chinese.Look at all the Chinese living in America, Britain, Australia, Canada who have been there ten, twenty years and they don't speak any English. Immersion per se doesn't not work, why? Because a drowning man cannot learn to swim.
人們還認(rèn)為學(xué)會(huì)一門外語最好的方式就是，到說該門語言的國家去。但是看看在香港已經(jīng)呆了 10 年的西方人，還是一句中文也不會(huì)說。看看那些居住在美國、英國、澳大利亞、加拿大 10 年、20 年的中國人，還是不會(huì)一句英文。只呆在一個(gè)新的國家本身是沒有用的。為什么?因?yàn)槟缢娜耸菍W(xué)不會(huì)游泳的。
When you don't speak a language you're like a baby and if you drop yourself into a context which is all adults talking about stuff over your head, you won't learn. So, what are the five principles that you need to pay attention to;
當(dāng)你不能說那種語言，你就像一個(gè)嬰兒，如果你進(jìn)入一個(gè)環(huán)境，那里全部都是成年人在嘰嘰呱呱的說一些你完全聽不明白的話，你還是學(xué)不會(huì)。那么你需要注意的那 5 個(gè)原則是什么呢?
First: there are four words, attention, meaning, relevance and memory, and these interconnect in very important ways. Especially when you're talking about learning.Come with me on a journey through a forest.You go on a walk through a forest and you see something like this.Little marks on a tree, maybe you pay attention, maybe you don't.
首先，有四個(gè)詞，注意力、含義、關(guān)聯(lián)和記憶。這些在很多非常重要的方面是相互連接的，特別在你談?wù)搶W(xué)習(xí)時(shí)。請(qǐng)跟隨我來一趟森林之旅。你穿越森林，然后你看到一個(gè)像這樣的東西。你可能注意到樹上的這些小標(biāo)志，可能沒有。
You go another fifty metres and you see this.You should be paying attention.Another fifty metres, if you haven't been paying attention, you see this.And at this point, you're paying attention. And you've just learned that this is important, it's relevant because it means this, and anything that is related, any information related to your survival is stuff that you're going to pay attention to and therefore you're going to remember it.
然后你繼續(xù)向前走 50 米，你看到了這個(gè)。你應(yīng)該要注意了。再 50 米，如果你還沒注意的話，你會(huì)看到這個(gè)。當(dāng)看到這個(gè)的時(shí)候，你就要注意了。你剛剛學(xué)習(xí)到了這個(gè)是重要的，它與你有重要關(guān)系，因?yàn)樗磉@個(gè)。任何有關(guān)聯(lián)的東西，任何有關(guān)你生存的信息都是值得你注意的，而你給注意力的就會(huì)記住的。
If it's related to your personal goals then you're going to pay attention to it, if it's relevant you're going to remember it. So, the first rule, the first principle for learning a language is focus on language content that is relevant to you.Which brings us to tools.We master tools by using tools and we learn tools the fastest when they are relevant to us. So let me share a story. A keyboard is a tool. Typing Chinese a certain way, there are methods for this.
如果它關(guān)于你個(gè)人目標(biāo)的，那么你就會(huì)注意到它，如果它與你是有關(guān)聯(lián)的，你就會(huì)記住它。因此，學(xué)習(xí)一門語言的第一個(gè)原則就是, 注意那些與你息息相關(guān)的語言內(nèi)容上。這就讓我們談到工具。我們通過使用工具來掌握工具，而當(dāng)這些工具與我們息息相關(guān)的時(shí)候，我們就可以學(xué)得很快。先讓我分享一個(gè)故事。
That's a tool.I had a colleague many years ago who went to night school; Tuesday night, Thursday night, two hours each night, practicing at home, she spent nine months, and she did not learn to type Chinese.
鍵盤是一個(gè)工具。有不同方法打中文字。這些方法屬于工具的一種。多年前，我有一位同事，她上夜校學(xué)習(xí)中文打字。每周二、周四晚上，她都用 2 個(gè)小時(shí)上課，然后也在家練習(xí)，她花了 9 個(gè)月的時(shí)間，仍然沒學(xué)會(huì)打中文字。
And one night we had a crisis.We had forty eight hours to deliver a training manual in Chinese. And she got the job, and I can guarantee you in forty eight hours, she learned to type Chinese because it was relevant, it was important, it was meaningful, she was using a tool to create value.So the second tool for learning a language is to use your language as a tool to communicate right from day one. As a kid does.
一天晚上，我們有一件緊急的事情。我們有 48 個(gè)小時(shí)來準(zhǔn)備用中文發(fā)表一本訓(xùn)練手冊(cè)。她獲得了這個(gè)任務(wù) ，并且我可以像你保證，在 48 個(gè)小時(shí)內(nèi)，她學(xué)會(huì)了用中文打字。因?yàn)檫@是相關(guān)的、重要的、有意義的，她在使用一種工具來創(chuàng)造價(jià)值。因此，學(xué)習(xí)一門語言的第二個(gè)工具是從第一天開始，用你的語言作為一種工具來溝通，像一個(gè)孩子那樣做。
When I first arrived in China I didn't speak a word of Chinese, and on my second week I got to take a train ride overnight.I spent eight hours sitting in the dining car talking to one of the guards on the train. He took an interest in me for some reason, and we just chatted all night in Chinese and he was drawing pictures and making movements with his hands and facial expressions and piece by piece by piece I understood more and more.
當(dāng)我初次來到中國，我一句中文都不會(huì)說。第二個(gè)星期我乘坐火車過夜。我花了 8 個(gè)小時(shí)，坐在餐車，跟一位乘警聊。因?yàn)槟撤N原因，他對(duì)我很感興趣。我們?cè)谀怯弥形牧牧苏?，隨著他畫畫、比劃雙手并動(dòng)用他的面部表情，我逐漸地明白越來越多。
But what was really cool, was two weeks later, when people were talking Chinese around me, I was understanding some of this and I hadn't even made any effort to learn that. What had happened? I'd absorbed it that night on the train, which brings us to the third principle When you first understand the message, then you will acquire the language unconsciously.
但是真正有趣的是，兩個(gè)星期后，當(dāng)人們?cè)谖抑車f中文的時(shí)候，我可以明白一些而且我并沒有為之付出任何努力。發(fā)生了什么?在火車的那晚我已經(jīng)吸收了中文，這也是我們要說的第三個(gè)原則。當(dāng)你已經(jīng)理解溝通的信息含義，接下來你將不知不覺下意識(shí)的獲得該語言。
And this is really, really well documented now, it's something called comprehensible input and there's twenty or thirty years of research on this. Stephen Krashen, a leader in the field has published all sorts of these different studies and this is just from one of them.
而且這是有充足的證據(jù)證明的，我們把它稱之為“可明白輸入”，而這個(gè)概念被研究了研究二三十年。此領(lǐng)域的佼佼者史蒂夫·克拉申發(fā)布了各類不同的學(xué)術(shù)研究成果，而這些數(shù)據(jù)來自他的一個(gè)報(bào)告。
The purple bars show the scores on different tests for language. The purple people were people who had learned by grammar and formal study, the green ones are the ones who learned by comprehensible input. So, comprehension works.Comprehension is key and language learning is not about accumulating lots of knowledge. In many, many ways it's about physiological training.
條形圖里面的紫色部分顯示不同語言測(cè)試的成績。紫色代表那些通過正式學(xué)習(xí)和學(xué)習(xí)語法的人，綠色的代表那些通過可明白輸入學(xué)習(xí)的人。因此，可明白意思的輸入是有效的。理解是很關(guān)鍵的，而學(xué)語言本身不僅僅是獲取大量的知識(shí)。在很多方面，更多的是生理的訓(xùn)練。
A woman I know from Taiwan did great at English at school, she got A grades all the way through, went through college, A grades, went to the US and found she couldn't understand what people were saying. And people started asking her: ‘are you deaf?'
And she was. English deaf.
我認(rèn)識(shí)一位來自臺(tái)灣的女士，上學(xué)時(shí)英文成績很好，大學(xué)英語也很優(yōu)秀。后來，她到了美國，竟然發(fā)現(xiàn)自己聽不懂別人在說什么。然后人們開始問她：“你是聾的嗎?”她確實(shí)是。英語聾子。
Because we have filters in our brain that filter in the sounds that we are familiar with and they filter out the sounds of languages we're not. And if you can't hear it, you won't understand it and if you can't understand it, you're not going to learn it.
因?yàn)樵谖覀兇竽X里有一些過濾器會(huì)幫助我們過濾熟悉的語言聲音進(jìn)入腦子里，而把不熟悉的語言聲音過濾出去。如果你聽不到，你不會(huì)明白;你聽不明白，你將不能學(xué)會(huì)它。
So you actually have to be able to hear these sounds.And there are ways to do that but it's physiological training. Speaking takes muscle. You've got forty-three muscles in your face, you have to coordinate those in a way that you make sounds that other people will understand.
因此，你必須能夠聽到這些聲音。這里有一些方法來做到，但這些是生理上的訓(xùn)練。說話需要用到肌肉。在你的臉上有 43 塊肌肉，你必須協(xié)調(diào)好這些肌肉來發(fā)聲，讓別人明白你的話。
If you've ever done a new sport for a couple of days, then you know how your body feels. And it hurts. If your face is hurting you're doing it right.
如果你曾經(jīng)有做過幾天新的運(yùn)動(dòng)，你會(huì)知道你的身體有什么感覺。有點(diǎn)酸疼。如果你的面部有這種酸疼的感覺，那就對(duì)了。
And the final principle is state. Psycho-physiological state. If you're sad, angry, worried, upset, you're not going to learn. Period. If you're happy, relaxed, in an Alpha brain state, curious, you're going to learn really quickly, and very specifically you need to be tolerant of ambiguity. If you're one of those people who needs to understand 100% every word you're hearing, you will go nuts, because you'll be incredibly upset all the time, because you're not perfect.
最后一個(gè)原則是狀態(tài)。心理生理的狀態(tài)。如果你傷心、生氣、擔(dān)心、沮喪，你將不能學(xué)會(huì)。絕對(duì)是這樣。如果你是在一個(gè)開心、放松、好奇的大腦狀態(tài)下，你將很快學(xué)會(huì)，而且需要明確的一點(diǎn)是，你需要忍受歧義。如果你是那種在聽的時(shí)候需要百分百聽明白別人在說的每一個(gè)詞的人之一，你會(huì)因?yàn)槟銦o時(shí)無刻(的)沮喪感和你的不完美而發(fā)瘋了。
If you're comfortable with getting some, not getting some, just paying attention to what you do understand, you're going to be fine, you'll be relaxed and you'll be learning quickly.
如果你對(duì)聽明白一些、聽不明白一些而感到舒服，并把注意力放在你明白的部分，你將會(huì)學(xué)好，而且你的狀態(tài)越輕松，你將學(xué)得越快。
So based on those five principles, what are the seven actions that you need to take
那么在這 5 個(gè)原則上，你還需要哪 7 個(gè)行動(dòng)呢?
Number one: listen a lot. I call it brain soaking。You put yourself in a context where you're hearing tons and tons and tons of a language and it doesn't matter if you understand it or not。 You're listening to the rhythm ,you're listening to the patterns that repeat, you're listening to things that stand out。 So, just soak your brain in this.
第一，多聽。我把它叫做泡腦子。你把自己置放在聽很多很多語言的環(huán)境當(dāng)中，聽得明白與否無關(guān)重要。在聽的時(shí)候，你是在聽它的節(jié)奏、聽它重復(fù)的模式、聽凸出來的詞語。像這個(gè)泡泡你的腦子。
The second action: is that you get the meaning first, even before you get the words. You go “Well how do I do that?”， I don't know the words. Well, you understand what these different postures mean. Human communication is body language in many, many ways, so much body language.
第二個(gè)行動(dòng)是，在獲取單詞之前先獲取它的意思。你可能在想，這個(gè)我怎么知道的呢?我不知道那些單詞!但你可以理解那些不同手勢(shì)代表的含義。身體語言占領(lǐng)人類交流的一大部分。
From body language you can understand a lot of communication, therefore, you're understanding, you're acquiring through comprehensible input.And you can also use patterns that you already know. If you're a Chinese speaker of Mandarin and Cantonese and you go Vietnam, you will understand 60% of what they say to you in daily conversation, because Vietnamese is about 30% Mandarin, 30% Cantonese.
從身體語言，你可以理解很多對(duì)話內(nèi)容，因此，你通過可明白輸入理解、獲取它的含義。你還可以利用你已經(jīng)知道的模式。如果你是說國語和粵語，當(dāng)你去到越南，你可以明白 60%的日常用語，因?yàn)樵侥显捰?30%的國語和 30%的粵語。
The third action: start mixing. You probably have never thought of this but if you've got ten verbs, ten nouns and ten adjectives you can say one thousand different things. Language is a creative process. What do babies do? Okay: me, bat(h)， now， okay, that's how they communicate.So start mixing, get creative, have fun with it, it doesn't have to be perfect it just has to work.
第三個(gè)行動(dòng)：開始混合。你可能之前沒有想過這個(gè)，但如果你有10個(gè)動(dòng)詞，10個(gè)名詞和 10個(gè)形容詞，你可以說一千句不同的話。語言是創(chuàng)造的過程。孩子是怎么做的呢?我，澡澡，現(xiàn)在......這就是他們說話的方式。所以現(xiàn)在開始混合、創(chuàng)造并從中獲得趣味。你不需要做到完美，你能溝通就好。而且當(dāng)你這樣做的時(shí)候，你把注意力放在核心上。
And when you're doing this you focus on the core. What does that mean? Well any language has high frequency content. In English 1000 words covers 85% of anything you're ever going to say in daily communication. 3000 words give you 98% of anything you're going to say in daily conversation. You got 3000 words, you're speaking the language. The rest is icing on the cake.
任何語言都有它的高頻內(nèi)容。英語有1000個(gè)高頻詞覆蓋你85%的日常交流。而3000個(gè)高頻詞將覆蓋98%的日常交流。你有 3000個(gè)高頻詞，你將可以說一門外語。剩余的是錦上添花。
And when you're just beginning with a new language start with the tool box. Week number one in your new language you say things like: ‘how do you say that?' ‘I don't understand,'‘repeat that please,' ‘what does that mean,' all in your target language.
當(dāng)你開始學(xué)習(xí)一門外語，從工具箱開始。第一周，你會(huì)用新語言說一些像這樣的話“那個(gè)你怎么說?”“我不明白，”“請(qǐng)重復(fù)，”“那是什么意思”全都用你的目標(biāo)語言。
You're using it as a tool, making it useful to you, it's relevant to learn other things about the language. It's by week two that you should be saying things like: ‘me,' ‘this,' ‘you,' ‘that,' ‘give,' you know, ‘hot,' simple pronouns, simple nouns, simple verbs, simple adjectives, communicating like a baby.
你把它當(dāng)做工具來用，并且利用好它，這對(duì)學(xué)習(xí)該門語言的其他東西是有重大關(guān)系的。第二周，你應(yīng)該會(huì)說一些像“我”、“這個(gè)”、“你”、“那個(gè)”、“給”、“熱”，像個(gè)孩子一樣用這些簡單的代詞、名詞、動(dòng)詞、形容詞來溝通。
And by the third or fourth week, you're getting into what I call glue words. ‘Although,' ‘but,' ‘therefore,' these are logical transformers that tie bits of a language together, allowing you to make more complex meaning。At that point you're talking。
然后第三或第四周，你會(huì)進(jìn)入我稱為“膠水詞”的這部分。 “雖然”、“但是”、“因此”，這些邏輯工具幫助你把語言的小塊緊密地結(jié)合在一起，讓你制造更多復(fù)雜的意思。在那個(gè)階段，你已經(jīng)進(jìn)入說話的階段了!
And when you're doing that, you should get yourself a language parent. If you look at how children and parents interact, you'll understand what this means. When a child is speaking, it'll be using simple words, simple combinations, sometimes quite strange, sometimes very strange pronunciation and other people from outside the family don't understand it. But the parents do.
當(dāng)你這樣做的時(shí)候，你應(yīng)該給自己找位語言家長。如果你看看孩子和父母之間的互動(dòng)，你會(huì)明白這個(gè)什么意思的。當(dāng)一個(gè)孩子說話，它會(huì)用簡單的詞，簡單的組合，而有時(shí)候會(huì)發(fā)生奇怪甚至是非常怪的聲音，如果不是家里人根本就不懂它在說什么。 但是父母卻知道。因此，孩子有個(gè)安全的環(huán)境，然后變得有自信。父母用孩子可以理解的身體語言和簡單句子跟他們說話。
And so the kid has a safe environment, gets confidence. The parents talk to the children with body language and with simple language which they know the child understands. So we have a comprehensible input environment that's safe, we know it works otherwise none of you would speak your mother tongue.So you get yourself a language parent, who's somebody interested in you as a person who will communicate with you essentially as an equal, but pay attention to help you understand the message.
因此我們有一個(gè)很安全的可明白輸入的環(huán)境。我們知道這個(gè)有用，不然的話我們都不會(huì)說自己的母語。因此你可以給自己找個(gè)語言家長，他是對(duì)你感興趣的一個(gè)人，可以跟你溝通得上的，甚至專注于幫助你理解的同輩。
There are four rules of a language parent. Spouses by the way are not very good at this, okay? But the four rules are, first of all, they will work hard to understand what you mean even when you're way off beat.
語言家長有四個(gè)規(guī)則。 順便說一下，配偶在這里沒有那么好，明白嗎? 那么 4 條規(guī)則是，第一，他們會(huì)盡可能地理解你的意思，哪怕你脫離節(jié)拍。
Secondly, they will never correct your mistakes. Thirdly they will feed back their understanding of what you are saying so you can respond appropriately and get that feedback and then they will use words that you know.
第二，他們從來不會(huì)糾正你的錯(cuò)誤。第三，他們會(huì)理解你說的話并給出反饋，好讓你適當(dāng)?shù)鼗貞?yīng)并獲得反饋，并且他們也是說你知道的單詞。
The sixth thing you have to do, is copy the face. You've got to get the muscles working right, so you can sound in a way that people will understand you. There's a couple of things you do.
第六件事你需要做的就是，模仿面部表情。 你需要把肌肉部位用得準(zhǔn)確，別人才可以聽明白你發(fā)出的聲音。 達(dá)到此目的，你需要做幾件事情。
One is that you hear how it feels, and feel how it sounds which means you have a feedback loop operating in your face, but ideally if you can look at a native speaker and just observe how they use their face, let your unconscious mind absorb the rules, then you're going to be able to pick it up. And if you can't get a native speaker to look at, you can use stuff like this: [slides].
第一，聽它是什么感覺的并感覺它是怎樣發(fā)出聲音的，從你的臉上獲得反饋。如果條件理想的話，你可以看著母語者并觀察他們的面部，讓你下意識(shí)地吸收這些規(guī)則，然后你將能夠獲取到它。如果你沒有母語者可以看著學(xué)習(xí)的話，你可以用像這樣的東西。
And the final idea here, the final action you need to take is something that I call “direct connect.” What does this mean? Well most people learning a second language sort of take the mother tongue words and take the target words and go over them again and again in their mind to try and remember them. Really inefficient.
最后一個(gè)行動(dòng)是, 你需要“直接聯(lián)系”。什么意思呢?大多數(shù)人學(xué)習(xí)外語幾乎都是用母語的單詞對(duì)照目標(biāo)語言，反復(fù)地在心中念并嘗試記住它們。這樣做效率真的很低。你需要做的是意識(shí)到你所知道的事情在你的腦海里都有一個(gè)畫面和感覺。
What you need to do is realize that everything you know is an image inside your mind, it's feelings, if you talk about fire you can smell the smoke you can hear the crackling, you can see the flames, so what you do, is you go into that imagery and all of that memory and you come out with another pathway.So I call it ‘same box, different path.
如果你說到“火”，你可以聞到那個(gè)煙味，你可以聽到那燃燒的爆裂聲，你可以看到那火焰，所以你需要做的是進(jìn)入那些意象和有關(guān)的所有的記憶力，然后從另一條通道出來。我把這叫做“殊途同歸”(同一個(gè)盒子，不同的路)
You come out of that pathway, you build it over time you become more and more skilled at just connecting the new sounds to those images that you already have, into that internal representation.And over time you even become naturally good at that process, that becomes unconscious.
你從那條通道出來，你將建立這種技能并且越來越熟練地把新的聲音連接到你心里已經(jīng)知道的畫面去。往后你甚至很擅長走這個(gè)過程，甚至是無意識(shí)的。
So, there are five principles that you need to work with, seven actions, if you do any of them, you're going to improve。And remember these are things under your control as the learner. Do them all and you're going to be fluent in a second language in six months.
因此，你需要運(yùn)用的那 5 個(gè)原則和 7 個(gè)行動(dòng)，如果你運(yùn)用其中任何一個(gè)，都將得到進(jìn)步。并且記住，作為學(xué)習(xí)者，這些事情都在你的掌控之下。如果你做到以上全部，你將會(huì)在六個(gè)月內(nèi)學(xué)會(huì)流利的外語。
Thank you.
謝謝。
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