Практика Shadowing: Losing your mother tongue ⏲️ 6 Minute English - Изучайте разговорный английский с YouTube

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Hello, this is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.
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I'm Sam.
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And I'm Rob.
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In this programme, we'll be hearing about an issue experienced by many child refugees who are forced to leave their home.
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The loss of their first native language,
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or mother tongue, as they start a new life learning to speak a new language in a new country.
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Julie Tadevi and her family left their home in what was then Czechoslovakia and is now the Czech Republic,
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during the Cold War when Julie was a small child.
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After several years travelling through Europe,
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they arrived in Canada as political refugees with no English.
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We'll be hearing about Julie's childhood when learning English started to replace her native language, Czech.
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And as usual, we'll be learning some new vocabulary as well.
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But first, I have a question, Rob.
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Julie's family left their home as political refugees,
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but every year millions of people are also displaced because of war,
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persecution, or the damaging effects of climate change.
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So, according to the United Nations,
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how many people around the world are currently living as displaced refugees? Is it A.
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3 million, B.
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53 million, or C.
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103 million?
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I'll guess it's 103 million.
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I'll reveal the answer later in the programme, Rob.
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Like many child refugees, Julie spoke only her mother tongue,
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Czech, at home with her brothers,
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sisters and parents who, in the beginning,
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spoke no English at all.
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Here she describes to Michael Rosen,
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presenter of BBC Radio 4 programme,
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Word of Mouth, going to an English-speaking school for the first time.
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So you went into school,
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not to start off with,
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really understanding what was going on, is that right?
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That's right, I just kind of interpreted things as best I could
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and my memory of that is that that was not particularly difficult or traumatic.
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I think by then I'd had the experience of being dunked into various unfamiliar languages numerous times
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and I had faith that it would sort itself out and that everything would be just fine and it was, of course.
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At school, Julie was dunked into unfamiliar situations,
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a bit like a biscuit being dunked into a cup of tea.
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Often, dunk means to dip something into a liquid,
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but here the meaning is that Julie was suddenly dropped into a new situation for a while,
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then taken out as her family travelled through Europe.
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By the time she arrived in Canada,
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Julie had been exposed to several other languages, including Italian and French.
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She had experienced many difficulties,
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but never given up hope of finding a new home.
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Julie had faith, in other words,
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trust or confidence, that everything would sort itself out,
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a phrase meaning to stop being a problem automatically without having to do anything.
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Over the following years, Julie faced many challenges,
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going to school and making friends,
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helping her parents as they struggled in the English-speaking world,
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and grieving for her native language,
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which she slowly forgot, and with it,
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the chance to speak Czech with her dad before he passed away.
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Julie shares her thoughts on losing and refinding her mother tongue in her book Memory Speaks.
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Through it all, Julie kept alive her belief that by speaking two,
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three, or even more languages,
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we don't forget who we are,
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but instead gain a sense of tolerance,
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an idea which she talked about with BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth.
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The idea that you can be both of Mexican ancestry,
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for example, and speak Spanish,
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and be a full-fledged American,
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or in my case, come from a country like the Czech Republic,
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continue to speak my language,
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and be Canadian, and very proudly so,
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and very invested in Canada as a society.
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There's a number of studies that suggest
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that the very presence of people with blended ideas in a society seem to lead to greater acceptance between groups.
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It creates the sense that this is not an either-or,
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that we can coexist, perhaps precisely because we have evidence that these cultures can coexist within a single person.
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For Julie, there's no contradiction in being a Canadian refugee speaking Czech or a Spanish who's a full-fledged or fully developed American.
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These are not either-or situations,
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cases where there is only a choice between two options with no third possibility.
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Instead, a peaceful coexistence can develop as shown in the life of Julie Sedevi herself.
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Right, it's time to reveal the answer to my question.
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How many people around the world,
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like Julie, are living as displaced refugees?
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Well, I said it was 103 million.
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Was I right?
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And that was the correct answer, Rob a number which,
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according to the UN, is only going to grow.
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Now it's time to recap the vocabulary we've learned from this programme about losing our mother tongue,
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the native language we were brought up speaking by our parents.
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If something is dunked, it's dipped into a liquid like a biscuit and a cup of tea.
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But if someone is dunked into a situation,
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they're suddenly placed into a new and unfamiliar setting,
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before being removed again after a short time.
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If you have faith in something or someone,
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you have trust or confidence in them.
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The phrasal verb to sort itself out means to stop being a problem without having to do anything.
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The adjective full-fledged means completely developed.
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And finally, an either-or is a situation where only a choice between two options is possible with no third alternative.
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And that brings us to the end of this programme.
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Bye for now!
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Bye bye!
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English from the BBC.

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