The most extraordinary thing about language, however, is that one doesn't have to be a genius to set its wheels in motion.

然而，语言最非凡之处在于，一个人不必成为天才也能驾驭语言。

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Saying "thank you" is probably the first thing most of us learn to do in a foreign language.

说“谢谢”可能是我们大多数人学习外语要做的第一件事。

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Another thing that distinguishes a real language is a property we call "discreteness".

区分真正语言的另一因素是我们称为“间断性”的一种特质。

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Again, this is a right-handed centric thing but if you're right-handed, language on the left, math and music on the right.

重申一遍,这是以右利手为基础的研究结论,如果你是右利手,那么语言功能便定位于左半球,而数学运算与音乐则定位于右半球

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3 So here what I'm doing is 17 divided by 13, but because of this parenthetical, , -- because of that parenthetical -- that has nothing to do with math; -- this is a programming language thing -- that is a casting operation.

所以这里我要做的是用17除以，但因为这样的题外话，因为那样的题外话-,还是没有做完这个数学题;,这是一个编程语言的东西-,那是一个计算操作。

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So doing music, if I'm sight reading, playing, it's a very complex thing, but most of the--most of this music and language processing happens in these-- the--as I mentioned--the left and right auditory cortex.

如果我想创作音乐,即兴创作,即兴表演,那就会很复杂了,但是大多数的语言和音乐处理,都在这部分发生,就是我之前提到的左右听觉皮层

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The Wiki boss has often said that his free, not-for-profit online encyclopaedia - that now gets seven billion page views each month with in-excess of five million multiple-language entries - was either the "smartest thing, or the dumbest thing that I ever did".

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"We live in an ever smaller global community and we probably are at a point where we believe having some language skills is a useful thing - it's what I would call a vocational skill really, " he says.

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Regardless of all of the above, one thing you should always do when traveling around China is carry with you Chinese-language business cards of your hotel or of places you wish to visit so you can show passers-by, taxi drivers, bus conductors and the like.

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