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研究建议:专注发音而非死记硬背,有助于语言学习Stop making sense: focus on sounds to help learn a language, study suggests

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有效学习一门语言需要长时间接触其语音。图片来源:Dimitrios Symeonidis/AlamyLearning a language effectively requires prolonged exposure to its sounds. Photograph: Dimitrios Symeonidis/Alamy

研究表明,最优秀的语言学家处理不熟悉的外语发音时,更像是在处理非语音声音。

如果你想真正掌握法语、阿拉伯语或匈牙利语,不要从死记硬背词汇和语法开始,而应专注于它们的发音,研究表明。

Research shows that the best linguists process unfamiliar foreign speech sounds more like non-speech sounds If you want to get really good at French, Arabic or Hungarian, don’t start with rote learning vocabulary and grammar, focus on how they sound instead, research suggests.

一项关于人类如何学习现代语言的新研究发现,最有天赋的语言学家的大脑在听到外语词汇时,会将其当作随机噪声而非单词来处理。

A new study of how humans learn modern languages has found that the brains of the most talented linguists hear foreign terms as random noise, not words.