Now that--If the only language you've ever heard is English, that's going to seem like a really weird example of a problem because you're listening to me speak and in between each of my words you're hearing a pause.

如果你只接触过英语,那么刚才的问题就看上去非常奇怪了,因为你在听我讲话,而你会在我所说的单词之间听到一个停顿

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I listen to the music, and then what I also enjoy is some bilingual music that's Spanish and English.

我听音乐，而且还喜欢听两种语言的音乐，就是英语和西班牙语。

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We know there has to be some effect of the environment shaping language, obviously, because in order to know English you have to have heard English, in order to know Dutch you have had to heard, to--had to have learned and heard Dutch.

我们知道,很明显某些环境作用,塑造了语言,因为要理解英语,你必须听过英语,要理解荷兰语,你必须学过和听过荷兰语

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in the case of English, you're lucky because there is a lot of recorded English out there to listen to.

比方说英语，你很幸运，因为有很多录制好的英语磁带可以听。

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And read a lot and listen a lot because obviously, not just in English-speaking countries,

大量阅读，大量地听，因为明显地，不能只是在母语是英语的国家，

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I can't say because I need some person to listen to me

我不好说，因为我需要一个人听我说英语，

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because some sounds, like the 'R's here are very different from Americans and from other languages.

因为一些发音听起来，比如“R”跟美式英语，或者其他语言非常不一样。

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And so, an English speaker can hear the difference between "Lip" and "Rip" and that corresponds to two different words in English.

所以,英语说话者可以听出,"Lip"和"Rip"之间的差别,而这两种声音在英语中对应了不同的单词

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