1、精读及高频词汇 语言类,新航道阅读主讲 曹舒阳,C4T2P1,Half the worlds 6,800 languages are likely to vanish within two generations.,Never before has the planets linguistic diversity shrunk at such a pace.,At the moment, we are heading for about three or four languages dominating the world.,Isolation breeds linguistic diver
2、sity.,The critically endangered languages are those that are only spoken by the elderly.,Practice,因为地球被三到四种语言统治，许多濒危语言可能会在两代人之内消失，使得语言多样性以惊人的速度缩减。,Why do people reject the language of their parents?,It begins with a crisis of confidence, when a small community finds itself alongside a larger, wealth
3、ier society, people lose faith in their culture.,When the next generation reaches their teens, they may not want to be induced into the old traditions.,Quite often, governments try to kill off a minority language by banning its use in public or discouraging its use in schools, all to promote nationa
4、l unity.,The deadliest weapon is not government policy but economic globalisation.,Native Americans do not lose pride in their language, but they have had to adapt to socio-economic pressures, they cannot refuse to speak English if most commercial activity is in English.,Language is also intimately
5、bound up with culture, so it may be difficult to preserve one without the other.,Practice,因为语言与文化密切相关，所以如果一个国家的后代/青少年失去了对自己文化的信心，他们可能会拒绝说本土语言/少数语言。,If a person shifts from Navajo to English, they lose the traditional culture.,The loss of diversity may also deprive us of different ways of looking at
6、the world.,There is mounting evidence that learning a language produces physiological changes in the brain, and this could affect our thoughts and perceptions.,The patterns and connections we make among various concepts may be structured by the linguistic habits of our community.,The key to fosterin
7、g diversity is for people to learn their ancestral tongue as well as the dominant language.,Most of the endangered languages will not survive without a large degree of bilingualism.,word vocabulary term terminology lexicalexpression utterance,audiencefrequency of usageaccuracy accurate,新浪微博：曹脆脆是个饼学员交流QQ群：111041732,Any questions?,
