シャドーイング練習: How Language Shapes The Way You Think｜语言如何悄悄塑造我们的思维方式 - YouTubeで英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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When I first started learning Chinese, I thought I was just learning new words.
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When I first started learning Chinese, I thought I was just learning new words.
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But slowly, I came to realize that I was actually learning a different way of seeing the world.
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We use language constantly to communicate, to express ourselves, to make sense of the world around us.
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But most of us rarely stop and ask, what exactly is language?
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And what does the language we speak do to our minds?
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Growing up in America as a native English speaker, I never really questioned how English worked.
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It just felt natural and normal to me.
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But as I started to learn Chinese, I started noticing a few little things that completely changed the way I think about language.
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For example, in English in America, when we talk about our address, we start with the smallest unit first.
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So you might say something like 123 Main Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
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But in Chinese, you actually go in the opposite direction.
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You'll start with the larger unit, maybe the country, the province, the city, and then work your way down to the smallest unit.
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And at first glance, this might totally just seem like a really random difference.
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But the more I thought about it, the more interesting it became.
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Because maybe language isn't just vocabulary and grammar.
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Maybe language is a reflection of culture.
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In many Western cultures like America, we put a lot of emphasis on the individual, so it makes sense that in our address, the individual unit comes first.
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However, in many East Asian cultures, there's more of an emphasis on the community, on the group as a whole,
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over one specific individual, which makes sense why
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when you say the address you would focus on the larger group first
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so these little differences in culture and the way
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that we think also show up in the languages that we speak
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and something so strange about language is that we use it
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so naturally and so frequently
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that we might even forget what words actually are for example the word cat
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when i say cat or in chinese mall you you might have this image of a cat appear in your mind.
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But the word itself, cat or mall, it's not really a cat.
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It's just a sound.
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It's a group of letters or a bunch of strokes in a character.
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It's just some kind of mental representation that we have all agreed means this animal.
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So language can help us describe our realities, but it's not reality itself.
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Learning Chinese also made me realize how deeply rooted and deeply attached we become to our own native languages.
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Many language learners, when we first start learning, we try to translate everything word by word.
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But eventually this approach starts to completely fall apart because languages aren't just groups of words, it's a completely different system of logic.
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This is why sometimes some expressions feel totally normal and natural in one language,
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but totally weird when you try to translate it into another language.
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For example, in English, we might say, help yourself.
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This is actually a very polite and common phrase.
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What they mean by this is, please take some food, eat whatever you want, or make yourself at home.
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But if you translate that directly into Chinese, help yourself, 帮助你自己, sounds kind of weird.
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And I think it's moments like these and examples like these that help us realize
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that language is not just a list of vocabulary words.
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You can't rely on the memorization of all these words to help you fluently communicate with other people.
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And I think this is exactly where a lot of frustration comes from when we try to learn a new language,
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because we're trying to use these existing mental frameworks and force them onto a new language.
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But language learning just doesn't work like that.
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To truly learn and deeply understand a new language, we have to let go of the idea that our way of thinking is the default.
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And honestly, this is a really hard thing to do.
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So don't stress yourself out too much.
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Just take it one day at a time.
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And especially for adult learners, when we make mistakes, it's very easy for it to feel personal.
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Maybe you say something wrong.
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Maybe someone has a hard time understanding you and you don't really know what they're saying either.
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The whole conversation is a bit clunky.
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and suddenly you feel like you sound less intelligent, less confident, and less like yourself.
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Language is deeply connected to our identity, so struggling in another language can make you feel vulnerable in ways you don't even know how to describe.
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But making mistakes doesn't mean that you're failing.
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Actually, it's quite the opposite.
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You can think of it as a growing pain.
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And And sometimes those little embarrassing mistakes are the things that we remember for a very long time, which also means that they're the moments that you can learn the most from.
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I think that learning a language can change the way that you view and interact with the world.
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You start to realize that your own perspective is just one version of reality.
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There are other ways to organize your thoughts, other ways to express yourself, and there are other ways to interact with other people.
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And maybe fluency isn't just about memorizing that one list of words.
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Maybe it's about learning how to think differently too.
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