十二周大时，婴儿会微笑，发出类似元音的声音。

At twelve weeks a baby smiles and makes vowel-like sounds.

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知道了这些带元音的词后，你就知道如何移动其余的字母。

Once you have the vowels, you know which way to shift the rest of the letters.

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没有数学，没有斜视的小字，并试图破译那些没有元音的单词。

No math, no more squinting at the fine print and trying to decipher those words with no vowels.

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You can read every sound that is made, and they produced their alphabet.

就可以读出每一个能发的元音,他们还创造出了他们的字母系统

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You have to know where the vowels are supposed to go, and that makes it harder to learn how to read, but when you have the vowel sounds it's easier and the Greeks made that contribution.

你必须知道这些元音都应该加在哪,这使的学习阅读变得更加困难,但是如果填入元音,那么就会简单点,而希腊人在这方面做出了贡献

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I think I mentioned to you that the Greeks improved upon it and made it a true alphabet by taking some signs that they didn't need for their own language by turning them into vowel sounds.

我想我向你们提到过希腊人将这种字母表改良,并使其成为真正的字母表,他们把一些并不需要的符号,变成元音使用

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