移民的孩子往往会说两种语言,而且精通英语,“到了第三代,大多数移民家庭都丧失了原来的语言。”
The children of immigrants tend to be bilingual and proficient in English, "by the third generation, the original language is lost in the majority of immigrant families".
在婴儿会说话之前,甚至在他们还不会爬的时候,他们就能够靠看着说话人的脸来辨别两种不同且从未听过的语言了。
Before they speak-before they even crawl-infants can distinguish between two languages they've never heard before just by looking at the face of a speaker.
比如我登记了一个意英翻译的职位, 我收到了一个意英两门语言都不会说的说荷兰语的当地人的简历!
For instance I post a job for a Italian>English Translation and get a CV from a Dutch native speaker who is fluent in neither language.
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