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Have you ever felt like a different person in another language?

別の言語を話しているとき、自分が別人になったように感じたことはありますか？

I have, and it took me years to understand why it happens.

私はあります。そして、なぜそうなるのかを理解するのに何年もかかりました。

It's often said that learning a language opens doors.

言語を学ぶことは新たな扉を開く、とよく言われます。

What I've come to believe is that it also rewires the mind.

私が今確信しているのは、それが頭の中の回路まで組み替えるということです。

At forty-one, I moved to Lisbon, and I knew no Portuguese.

41歳のとき、私はポルトガル語をまったく知らないままリスボンに移り住みました。

Ordering coffee felt like an exam, and I failed it daily.

コーヒーを注文するのは試験のようなもので、私は毎日落第していました。

About a year in, something shifted,

1年ほど経った頃、何かが変わり、

and friends told me I was a different person in Portuguese.

友人たちから、ポルトガル語を話すあなたは別人みたいだと言われるようになりました。

I was louder and warmer, and I was far more patient!

声が大きくなり、温かくなり、しかもずっと辛抱強くなっていたんです！

Some of the clearest evidence comes from a military academy in Sweden,

特に明確な証拠のいくつかは、スウェーデンのある軍の学校から得られています。

where recruits learn languages like Arabic or Russian from scratch.

そこでは新兵たちが、アラビア語やロシア語などの言語をゼロから学びます。

Researchers scanned their brains before and after three months of study.

研究者たちは、3か月の学習の前と後で彼らの脳をスキャンしました。

Parts of the brain linked to memory and language had physically grown!

記憶と言語に関わる脳の部位が、物理的に大きくなっていたのです！

Medical students, who were studying just as hard, showed no such change.

同じくらい熱心に勉強していた医学生には、そのような変化は見られませんでした。

So it seems it wasn't hard work alone that made the difference.

つまり、違いを生んだのは努力だけではなかったようです。

That study lasted months, but the benefits may well last decades.

その研究は数か月のものでしたが、その恩恵は何十年も続くかもしれません。

In a Toronto memory clinic, Ellen Bialystok's team compared hundreds of patients.

トロントのある記憶障害クリニックで、Ellen Bialystokのチームが数百人の患者を比較しました。

Those who'd spoken two languages all their lives

生涯にわたって2つの言語を話してきた人たちは、

developed symptoms of dementia around four years later!

認知症の症状が出るのが、およそ4年遅かったのです！

Admittedly, not every study has found such a clear effect,

確かに、すべての研究でこれほど明確な効果が見つかったわけではありませんが、

but it's widely thought that juggling two languages keeps the brain flexible.

2つの言語を使い分けることで脳の柔軟性が保たれる、と広く考えられています。

Perhaps the most counterintuitive finding concerns how we make decisions.

おそらく最も直感に反する発見は、私たちの意思決定に関するものです。

In 2012, a Chicago team gave people a classic decision problem,

2012年、シカゴのある研究チームが、人々に古典的な意思決定の問題を出しました。

framed either in terms of lives saved or lives lost.

救われる命か、失われる命か、どちらかの言い方で示したのです。

In their native language, people's choices flipped with the wording,

母語では、言い回しによって人々の選択が逆転しましたが、

but in a foreign language, the bias largely disappeared!

外国語では、その偏りがほとんど消えたのです！

The less emotional a language feels, the more calmly we decide.

感情的な結びつきが薄い言語ほど、私たちは冷静に判断できるのです。

It isn't that I'm a nicer person in Portuguese,

ポルトガル語を話すと私がいい人になる、というわけではなく、

it's that I have to slow down and choose every word.

ゆっくり話して、一語一語を選ばなければならないからなんです。

Had I never left my comfortable English-only life,

もし、英語だけの居心地のいい生活から一度も離れていなかったら、

I'd never have met this side of myself.

自分のこんな一面に出会うことは、決してなかったでしょう。

So, provided you're willing to feel a little foolish,

ですから、少し恥ずかしい思いをする覚悟があるなら、

start a language, and allow yourself to be bad at it.

新しい言語を始めて、下手な自分を許してあげてください。

What if a new version of you is waiting in another language?

もし、別の言語の中で新しいあなたが待っているとしたら？

Thank you — or, as I'd now say, obrigada!

ありがとうございました——今の私なら、obrigada！と言いますね。

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This C1 speaking lesson is built on the video “SEtalk: What a Second Language Does to Your Brain”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: language, Portuguese, brain, lives, study. This video has 35 sentences and 362 words to shadow. The speech runs for 2:26. The speaker talks at a steady 149 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 79% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 12 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
counterintuitive adjective	/ˌkaʊntəɹɪnˈtuɪtɪv/	Contrary to intuition or common sense.
juggling noun	/ˈd͡ʒʌɡəlɪŋ/	The art of moving objects, such as balls, clubs, beanbags, rings, etc. in an artful or artistic manner.
rewire verb	/ɹiːˈwaɪə(ɹ)/	To replace or reconnect the wires of a device or installation.
admittedly adverb		As is acknowledged to be true; by general admission; confessedly.
calmly adverb	/ˈkɑː(ɹ)m.li/	In a calm manner; coolly.
symptom noun	/ˈsɪm(p)təm/	A perceived change in some function, sensation or appearance of a person that indicates a disease or disorder, such as fever, headache or rash; strictly, a…
dementia noun	/dɪˈmɛnʃə/	A progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Areas particularly affected…
recruit verb	/ɹɪˈkɹut/	To enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports team, the military, etc.
foolish adjective	/ˈfuː.lɪʃ/	Lacking good sense or judgement as a general trait; unwise; stupid.
researcher noun	/ˈɹiˌsɝ.t͡ʃɚ/	One who researches.
scan verb	/skæn/	To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely.
disappear verb	/dɪsəˈpɪɹ/	To vanish.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
slow down verb	To decelerate.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

Have you ever felt like a different person in another language?
I'd never have met this side of myself.
What if a new version of you is waiting in another language?
Thank you — or, as I'd now say, obrigada!

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 8 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'd, I'm, I've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: dementia /dɪˈmɛnʃə/, foolish /ˈfuː.lɪʃ/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like counterintuitive, juggling, rewire.

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