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Hi! I’m Taylor Behnke, and welcome to Crash Course Linguistics!
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Language is everywhere.
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It’s what we use to order a pizza, talk on our phones, tell jokes, and make sense of the world around us.
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We’ve used language to learn about every other subject on Crash Course, and now it’s time to learn linguistics — how language itself works!
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Over the next 16 episodes, we'll look at the structure of language from the smallest building blocks of sounds and handshapes, to the structure of words and meanings, to how words go together to make sentences and conversations.
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Along the way, we’ll also look at the relationship between language and our identity, the brain, and even computers.
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We’ll learn about writing, language acquisition, and the diversity of human languages.
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There are actually over 7000 identified languages in the world today!
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That includes thousands of spoken languages and hundreds of signed languages.
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They can be found in small communities or span across multiple countries.
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They can be written or unwritten.
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And they can be learned through family, formal schooling, or broader social networks.
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Each one is a living experiment into how humans communicate.
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Throughout this series we’ll be sharing examples from widely-known languages, as well as some you may not have encountered before.
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But we won't be learning one language in particular.
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Instead, we'll be looking at similarities and differences across many languages, learning how to think like a linguist about the languages we encounter in our everyday lives.
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We’re excited to produce a series on linguistics because it is super relevant to lots of fields, including speech recognition and natural language processing, speech pathology, lexicography, and communications.
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It’s also useful if you are teaching or learning languages, not to mention for journalists, poets, translators, interpreters, and other people who work with language.
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And if that sounds like basically everyone, it kind of is.
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More generally, understanding linguistics helps us understand how our own minds and bodies work, and the hidden patterns in our interactions with other humans.
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It's also really fun!
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Regardless of what part of language we’re analyzing, or which language or languages are our focus, a linguist is interested in language as it’s actually used.
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Linguistics is not about trying to establish and enforce one variety of language as better than another.
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After all, if we were studying rabbits, we wouldn't go around telling some rabbits that their hopping style is better than others.
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But this increased understanding of language does come with an ethical responsibility to be kind and compassionate with it.
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Before we get into it all, let me introduce myself.
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My name is Taylor Behnke, and I’m a writer, video maker, and digital organizer.
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I studied linguistics in college, alongside writing and Spanish.
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Ever since, I’ve been fascinated by how language works, and how it shapes our identities.
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I think a lot about the power of language as a tool for communication, both in my work with digital communities and on my YouTube channel ItsRadishTime.
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I’m excited to keep learning about linguistics with you.
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See you in the first episode!
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為何這個影片是絕佳的口語練習素材?
這個影片的對話自然流暢,語速適中,非常適合用來練習英語影子跟讀。內容圍繞語言學展開,話題貼近生活又充滿知識感,能讓你在練習口語的同時拓展視野。說話者泰勒的發音清晰,語調富有節奏感,無論是連讀、弱讀還是重音都處理得很到位,是學習提高英語發音的好範例。而且,影片中包含大量實用表達,比如“make sense of the world”(理解世界)、“living experiment”(活的實驗)等,對雅思口語練習也很有幫助。
拆解自然表達,學習地道口語
我們來看看幾個讓對話聽起來自然的句子:
- “Language is everywhere. It’s what we use to order a pizza, talk on our phones, tell jokes, and make sense of the world around us.” 這句話用了排比結構,列舉日常場景,讓表達生動又易懂。“it’s what we use to...”的句式簡潔明瞭,適合模仿。
- “We’ve used language to learn about every other subject on Crash Course, and now it’s time to learn linguistics — how language itself works!” 這裡的破折號用來補充說明,使句子邏輯更清晰。“it’s time to...”是口語中常用的表達,用來引出新話題。
- “Linguistics is not about trying to establish and enforce one variety of language as better than another.” 否定句的使用的自然,“not about doing sth”結構能準確表達“不是關於……”的意思,避免生硬。
簡單有效的影子跟讀練習步驟
試試這個shadow speech練習法:首先,播放影片片段,每句話聽完後暫停,模仿泰勒的發音、語調和節奏,大聲重複。然後,嘗試同步跟讀,即影片播放的同時跟著說,儘可能貼合原速和語氣。最後,用手機錄下自己的跟讀,對比原影片,找出發音、語速或語調上的差距。每天練習10-15分鐘,堅持一週,你會發現自己的口語流暢度和發音有明顯提升。這個方法不僅適合初學者,對準備雅思口語練習的同學也很有效,能幫助你培養自然的口語表達習慣。
什麼是跟讀法?
跟讀法 (Shadowing) 是一種有科學依據的語言學習技巧,最初開發用於專業口譯員的培訓,並由多語言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。這個方法簡單而強大:您在聽英語母語原聲的同時立即大聲重複——就像是一個延遲1-2秒緊跟說話者的影子。與被動聽力或語法練習不同,跟讀法強迫您的大腦和口腔肌肉同時處理並模模擬實的講話模式。研究表明它能顯著提高發音準確性,語調,節奏,連讀,聽力理解和口語流利度——使其成為雅思口語備考和真實英語交流最有效的方法之一。































