以前我写过文章,讲述学说欧洲语言是多么困难,因为人们执着地用英语回答。
Because English has Germanic and Romance roots, with plenty of Greek words, it is, of course,far easier for Europeans to learn English than it is for Chinese speakers.
由于英语的源头包括了日耳曼语和罗曼语,其词汇里有大量的希腊语单词,所以,欧洲人学英语当然比讲中文的人学英语要容易得多。
But it is not just in Europe that people appear to speak better English. Singaporeans seemed,when I went there last year, to speak English more fluently — and with a playfulness and joythat I missed in Hong Kong.
但是,英语讲得好的地方并不限于欧洲。去年我去新加坡时,发现当地人的英语似乎讲得更流利,带着一种香港人讲英语时没有的活泼和欢快。
In Shanghai, which I visited in 2009, I was struck by the number of people who spoke excellentEnglish. Some had been to university in English-speaking countries, but others had just workedhard on the language at home.
在上海——2009年我去过那里——我对很多人英语讲得特别棒感到吃惊。有些人曾经到讲英语的国家读大学,其他人只是在国内下了很大功夫学英语。
More extensive surveys have reached the same conclusion. The EF English Proficiency Index,which analysed test data from 750,000 adults in 63 countries, found that Hong Kong was wellbehind Malaysia and Singapore. The survey found that South Korea, Japan, Indonesia andTaiwan were all ahead of Hong Kong in English.
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