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学外语最佳方法：造一个文化孤岛

Are you trying to learn a new language in a foreign land? You might be better off if you stopped looking at that picture of your family and friends.

你是否正身处异国他乡，正在努力学习一门新的语言？如果你能放下那张家人和亲友的照片不再看它，也许你的学习之旅或许能事半功倍。

When learning a new language, your brain is running a whole new neuropathway, creating new patterns and trying to fix those new pathways permanently in your gray matter. New research from Columbia University found that prompting someone who is learning a new language with images and reminders of their own culture could temporarily wreck everything that the brain was trying to build.

当我们学习一门新语言的时候，我们的大脑里新的神经通路就开始发挥作用，大脑会创造新的认知模式，并使这种新的认知模式与大脑灰质构建永久性的联系。哥伦比亚大学的一项新研究证实，当人们用一个初学者本土文化的意象和物象来刺激他的二语习得时，大脑在二语习得过程中试图架构的模式和联系可能被彻底摧毁。

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When native Chinese students were asked to converse with a Caucasian avatar versus a Chinese avatar, their English skills were so different. Simply exposing students to a Chinese person affected their ability to speak English. Subjects who talked with the Chinese version felt more comfortable in their speech, but they produced 11% fewer words per minute. They actually became less fluent speakers.