可可电台，每期节目一话题，让英语磨练耳朵的同时学到更多有益的小知识，丰富知识的同时受益于生活。

Learn a language-you need to know

学习语言必备

Ignore the myths:age is just a number

无视那些迷思：年龄只是数字

You are a monolingual adult: have you missed the language boat? Ralby argues "a key language myth is that it's harder as an adult".

你是一个只会一种语言的成年人：那么你是否已经错过了学习一门新语言的时机了呢?罗尔比说“关于语言学习的一个重要的迷思就是，成年更难学会新语言。”

Adults and children may learn in different waysbut that shouldn't deter you from committing to learning another language.

成年人和儿童可能在学习的方法上不一致，但这并不应该成为阻碍你学习另一门语言的障碍。

"Languages are simultaneously organic and systematic. As children we learn languages organically and instinctively; asadults we can learn them systematically."

“语言是有机和系统的。儿童学习语言的方法是有机和直觉的：而成年人学习语言是系统的。”

If you're still not convinced of your chances,Ralby suggests drawing inspiration from early philologists and founders of linguistics who "learned dozens of languages to encyclopaedic levels asadults".

若你还对此观点抱有疑惑，拉尔比建议从古代哲学家和语言学创始人身上寻找启示，“这些博学者都是在成年的时候学会众多语言的。”

【知识点津】

monolingual adj.<术>单语的，只用一种语言的

例句：

Computers are monolingual: they need us to make that translation.

计算机是语只使用一种语言的设备: 他需要我们来翻译.

deter vt.阻止，制止； 使不敢； 使踌躇

例句：

Such a statement was hardly calculated to deter future immigrants.

这样的声明不太可能吓住将来的移民。

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