跟读练习: SEtalk: What a Second Language Does to Your Brain - 通过视频学习英语口语

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Have you ever felt like a different person in another language?
你们有没有过这种感觉:换一种语言,就像变了一个人?
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I have, and it took me years to understand why it happens.
我有过,而且我花了好几年才明白为什么会这样。
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It's often said that learning a language opens doors.
人们常说,学习一门语言能打开许多扇门。
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What I've come to believe is that it also rewires the mind.
而我逐渐相信,它还会重塑我们的思维。
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At forty-one, I moved to Lisbon, and I knew no Portuguese.
41岁那年,我搬到了里斯本,一句葡萄牙语都不会。
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Ordering coffee felt like an exam, and I failed it daily.
点杯咖啡都像一场考试,而我天天不及格。
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About a year in, something shifted,
大约一年后,有些东西变了,
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and friends told me I was a different person in Portuguese.
朋友们说,我讲葡萄牙语的时候像换了个人。
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I was louder and warmer, and I was far more patient!
我更大声、更热情,而且耐心多了!
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Some of the clearest evidence comes from a military academy in Sweden,
一些最有力的证据来自瑞典的一所军事学院,
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where recruits learn languages like Arabic or Russian from scratch.
那里的新兵要从零开始学阿拉伯语或俄语这样的语言。
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Researchers scanned their brains before and after three months of study.
研究人员在他们学习3个月的前后,分别扫描了他们的大脑。
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Parts of the brain linked to memory and language had physically grown!
大脑中与记忆和语言相关的区域,竟然真的长大了!
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Medical students, who were studying just as hard, showed no such change.
而同样刻苦学习的医学生,却没有出现这样的变化。
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So it seems it wasn't hard work alone that made the difference.
所以看来,带来差别的不只是努力本身。
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That study lasted months, but the benefits may well last decades.
那项研究只持续了几个月,但它带来的益处很可能会延续几十年。
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In a Toronto memory clinic, Ellen Bialystok's team compared hundreds of patients.
在多伦多的一家记忆门诊,Ellen Bialystok的团队比较了数百名患者。
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Those who'd spoken two languages all their lives
那些一辈子都讲两种语言的人,
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developed symptoms of dementia around four years later!
出现痴呆症状的时间晚了4年左右!
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Admittedly, not every study has found such a clear effect,
诚然,并非每项研究都发现了如此明显的效果,
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but it's widely thought that juggling two languages keeps the brain flexible.
但人们普遍认为,在两种语言之间来回切换能让大脑保持灵活。
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Perhaps the most counterintuitive finding concerns how we make decisions.
也许最违反直觉的发现,与我们如何做决定有关。
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In 2012, a Chicago team gave people a classic decision problem,
2012年,芝加哥的一个团队给受试者出了一道经典的决策题,
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framed either in terms of lives saved or lives lost.
表述方式要么着眼于获救的生命,要么着眼于失去的生命。
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In their native language, people's choices flipped with the wording,
用母语时,人们的选择会随着措辞而反转,
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but in a foreign language, the bias largely disappeared!
但换成外语,这种偏差基本上消失了!
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The less emotional a language feels, the more calmly we decide.
一种语言给人的情感冲击越小,我们做决定就越冷静。
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It isn't that I'm a nicer person in Portuguese,
并不是说我讲葡萄牙语时人就变好了,
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it's that I have to slow down and choose every word.
而是因为我得放慢速度,斟酌每一个词。
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Had I never left my comfortable English-only life,
如果我从未离开那种只说英语的舒适生活,
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I'd never have met this side of myself.
我永远不会遇见自己的这一面。
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So, provided you're willing to feel a little foolish,
所以,只要你们愿意让自己显得有点傻,
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start a language, and allow yourself to be bad at it.
就开始学一门语言吧,允许自己学得不好。
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What if a new version of you is waiting in another language?
如果在另一种语言里,有一个全新的自己正在等着你们呢?
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Thank you — or, as I'd now say, obrigada!
谢谢大家——或者,用我现在的说法:obrigada!

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本课的词汇与口语要点

这节 C1 级别的口语课以视频“SEtalk: What a Second Language Does to Your Brain”为素材。 视频中反复出现的词有:language, Portuguese, brain, lives, study。 这段视频共有 35 个句子、362 个单词可供跟读。 讲话部分时长为 2:26。 说话人语速平稳,每分钟约 149 个词,很适合跟读。 只有 79% 的单词属于英语最常用的 3,000 词,词汇难度较高。

视频中的重点词汇

视频中最难的 8 个单词,附发音和释义:

单词发音释义
counterintuitive 形容词/ˌkaʊntəɹɪnˈtuɪtɪv/反常識 /反常识, 反直覺 /反直觉
juggling 名词/ˈd͡ʒʌɡəlɪŋ/變戲法 /变戏法, 雜技 /杂技
symptom 名词/ˈsɪm(p)təm/症狀 /症状, 病徵 /病征
dementia 名词/dɪˈmɛnʃə/癡呆 /痴呆, 失智症
recruit 动词/ɹɪˈkɹut/招聘, 徵兵 /征兵
foolish 形容词/ˈfuː.lɪʃ/笨, 傻
researcher 名词/ˈɹiˌsɝ.t͡ʃɚ/研究員 /研究员, 研究者
disappear 动词/dɪsəˈpɪɹ/消失

视频中出现的短语动词

单词释义
slow down 动词減速 /减速, 放慢

值得反复跟读的句子

视频中简短而完整的句子,可以直接用在日常对话里:

  • 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!

需要注意的发音

说话人用了 8 次缩略和弱读形式,例如 I'd, I'm, I've。请按听到的简短形式来说。

  • “sh” 和 “zh” 音: dementia /dɪˈmɛnʃə/, foolish /ˈfuː.lɪʃ/

中文母语者容易读错的音:

  • 词尾辅音 — 要读清楚,后面不要加元音: counterintuitive /ˌkaʊntəɹɪnˈtuɪtɪv/, recruit /ɹɪˈkɹut/, foolish /ˈfuː.lɪʃ/

如何用这段视频练习

  1. 先完整听一遍视频,不要开口,记下不认识的单词。
  2. 用正常速度逐句跟读,每句重复到你的节奏与说话人一致为止。
  3. 录下自己的声音并与原声对比,特别注意 counterintuitive, juggling, symptom 这类单词。

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