关于外语学习的7个常见误解_BEC初级作文

关于外语学习的7个常见误解

Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese are essentially dialects of the same language. If you learn one, you can learn the others. I did. If you learn Spanish, you open the door to the culture, music, history and possible business dealings with 800 million people in 60 countries, including the US and Canada.

西班牙语、法语、意大利语和葡萄牙语从本质上说是同一种语言的不同方言。如果你学会了一种，你也可以学会其他几种。我就是这样。如果你掌握了西班牙语，它就为你打开了一扇门，你可以接触到和8亿人相关的文化、音乐、历史，可能还有商务，这8亿人来自60个国家，其中包括美国和加拿大。

If you get ambitious you could try Russian, as I have been doing for the last two years. Once you have Russian you can probably communicate with other Slav speakers.

如果你在语言学习方面有雄心壮志，那么你可以试试俄语，过去两年我一直在学。一旦你掌握了俄语，你应该可以和其他的斯拉夫语言使用者交流。

But hold it here! Before getting carried away, let’s look at the present situation of language teaching. According to one Canadian survey, after 12 years of daily French classes, only one high school graduate out of 147 (0.68%) achieved “intermediate” proficiency. Another survey of immigrants learning English in the US showed that “classroom instructional hours” had little impact on progress.