VOA标准英语2010年-Indonesian Tribe Learns to Write with
时间：2018-12-16 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2010年(一月)
South Korean exports are world-renowned among those who shop for mobile phones or flat-screen TVs. But the country is offering a different export to a small Indonesian community - its writing system.
Members of an Indonesian ethnic 1 group called the Cia Cia took a walk around downtown Seoul recently, some of them getting their first taste of freezing winter weather.
Their arrival was greeted by a media frenzy 2 and an appearance by Seoul's mayor.
Such treatment is usually reserved for pop stars, or Olympic athletes. These Cia Cia children are neither, but they do have a special skill.
The children know how to read hangul - the Korean alphabet system.
The Cia Cia never had a writing system of their own for records or literature, until last year, when South Korean scholars persuaded them to make hangul their own.
South Korea dispatched teachers to Bau-Bau, where the Cia Cia live on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
Seoul National University Professor Lee Ho-young led the effort to promote hangul to the Cia Cia. He says he wants to preserve linguistic 3 diversity. "We want to protect rapidly disappearing languages in the world. Indigenous 4 languages are weakening under the influence of powerful central governments, and because they have no alphabet," he said.
Hangul is a simple and logical phonetic 5 system. Unlike the Roman alphabet, each letter conforms to one basic sound, so South Korean scholars say it is a practical option for the Cia Cia, even though Indonesia's main official language, Bahasa Indonesia, uses the Roman script.
In addition to its alphabet, South Korea is offering infrastructure 6 assistance by building schools and libraries for the Cia Cia.
Lessons in Korean will also be offered, as these Indonesians get more comfortable with hangul.
- This music would sound more ethnic if you played it in steel drums.如果你用钢鼓演奏，这首乐曲将更具民族特色。
- The plan is likely only to aggravate ethnic frictions.这一方案很有可能只会加剧种族冲突。
- He was able to work the young students up into a frenzy.他能激起青年学生的狂热。
- They were singing in a frenzy of joy.他们欣喜若狂地高声歌唱。
- She is pursuing her linguistic researches.她在从事语言学的研究。
- The ability to write is a supreme test of linguistic competence.写作能力是对语言能力的最高形式的测试。
- Each country has its own indigenous cultural tradition.每个国家都有自己本土的文化传统。
- Indians were the indigenous inhabitants of America.印第安人是美洲的土著居民。
- Our department has engaged a foreign teacher as phonetic adviser.我们系已经聘请了一位外籍老师作为语音顾问。
- English phonetic teaching is an important teaching step in elementary stages.语音教学是英语基础阶段重要的教学环节。
- We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加强科学基础设施建设。
- We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加强文化基础设施建设，发展各类群众文化。