我为自己制定了一个不可能的目标：让一群南印度村落里说泰米尔语的12岁的孩子们靠自己用英语学习生物科技。
And I set myself and impossible target: can Tamil speaking 12-year-old children in a South Indian village teach themselves biotechnology in English on their own?
“新”式英语是这个国家四种官方语言——英语、汉语普通话、马来语和泰米尔语的一种混合品，单词来自几种汉语方言。
Singlish is a jumble of the nation's four official languages -- English, Mandarin, Malay and Tamil -- and vocabulary from several Chinese dialects.
第二件，是在海啸袭击的一个印度村子进行的一个实验。在那里，我试图证实，说泰米尔语的十二岁的孩子不会用英语自学生物技术。
The second was an experiment in a Tsunami-hit Indian village, where I was trying to prove that Tamil-speaking 12-year-olds cannot teach themselves biotechnology in English.
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