英国人的英语最难懂:母语人士请学会说通用英语_BEC初级作文

英国人的英语最难懂:母语人士请学会说通用英语

笑话是一个很难理解的领域。一个让人难以理解的笑话会带来一片沉默，这会使你难以忘怀。而另一方面，当笑话起作用时，它们会为你在英语非母语人中带来巨大的成功。如果你学过其它语言，你会知道，听懂自己的第一个外国笑话，会带来一种无可比拟的成就感。试着给非母语听众讲几个笑话后，你会很快明白哪些是值得重复的。

It is often unnecessary to avoid longer words such as “association” and “nationality”, which are common to the Romance languages and will be widely understood in Europe and Latin America.

通常没有必要去避免较长的单词，例如“association”（协会、联合）和 “nationality”（国家、民族），这些词在拉丁语系中很常见，在欧洲和拉丁美洲都能被广泛理解。

Listen to verbal responses for signs of whether you have been understood or not. Make sure your non-native speaking colleagues have the chance to talk; they will often be paraphrasing your words in an attempt to satisfy themselves that they have grasped what you said.

从人们的反应中找寻自己是否被人理解的迹象。让非母语同事有机会说话，他们常常会重复你说过的话，以此肯定自己已经理解了你表达的意思。

Always remember that the greatest friend of the non-native speaker is repetition. Find more than one way of getting your point across and summarise frequently.