The way I think of it is like the conversation hour for your foreign language class.

我认为这就像是,你的外语课堂上的对话时间。

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I began this class with a demonstration of -that illustrates two very important facts about language.

我用一段演示来开始今天的课,这段演示阐述了语言非常重要的两个事实

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This class today is about language.

今天我们要讲的是语言

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And one claim, which we're going to return to briefly next class when we talk about language, is that there's a very, very big difference between a creature that doesn't have language and a creature that does.

我们下节课讲述语言时,会简单地讲述一个观点,也就是在未掌握语言的生物,与掌握语言的生物之间,存在着巨大的差异

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In fact, language is sufficiently interesting that, unlike most other things I'll talk about in this class, there is an entier field devoted to this study the field of linguistics that is entirely devoted to studying the nuances and structures of different languages.

事实上,语言是非常有意思的,与本门课上探讨的其他主题不同,对它的研究形成了一个完整的专业,即语言学专业,这个专业致力于研究各种语言的,细微差异及其结构

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