时间:2018-12-28 作者:英语课 分类:轻松英文阅读


英语课

 How do you study English? There are a lot of people who find studying just one language hard , but how about 23?


 
Timothy Donner, a 17-year-old high school student living in New York City has earned a lot of respect these days at his high school and has become quite famous. But he is not a teen idol 1 or even the head of the student council . So why has he become so famous? He can speak French, Dutch, Japanese, Chinese, Swahili…and as many as 23 languages! He is what is called a hyperpolyglot – someone who can speak six or more languages fluently.
 
So how did he go about learning 23 languages ? According to Timothy,, it wasn’t language that interested him at first; he was more interested in the history and the politics of other countries. He says his first language to study was Hebrew. As he listened to songs in that language, memorized their lyrics 2 , imitated their singing , and some self-study, he could start having conversations with people in Hebrew. He also says using the Internet to communicate by email and chathas been a big help to his language studies. But he says probably a multicultural 3 city like New York has helped his language studies the most.
 
But even if you don’t live in New York, there are still many ways to enjoy learning English. So keep on trying!!

1 idol
n.偶像,红人,宠儿
  • As an only child he was the idol of his parents.作为独子,他是父母的宠儿。
  • Blind worship of this idol must be ended.对这个偶像的盲目崇拜应该结束了。
2 lyrics
n.歌词
  • music and lyrics by Rodgers and Hart 由罗杰斯和哈特作词作曲
  • The book contains lyrics and guitar tablatures for over 100 songs. 这本书有100多首歌的歌词和吉他奏法谱。
3 multicultural
adj.融合多种文化的,多种文化的
  • Children growing up in a multicultural society.在多元文化社会中长大的孩子们。
  • The school has been attempting to bring a multicultural perspective to its curriculum.这所学校已经在尝试将一种多元文化视角引入其课程。
学英语单词
AAGUS
advauncing
agenthood
antitraditionalism
apomixes
bartang r.
Beijing Geodetic Coordinate System 1954
biologic energy
blocked operation
BOL (beginning of life)
broadcast home
bunk covers
cesar chavezs
chronotron
Coast is clear
coilingly
crankum
CRW
cut-off valve
defence spending
detective time constant
dilacerating
dragon piece
Dueodde
ECLA
electriclpower station
elstein
equulites absconditus
etherising
Eurosam
external hemorrhoid
ferte
fish strainer
fishing bank
fore line
forward lead of the brushes
funds for fisheries
Greenwich mean noon
helping-hand phenomenon
Holtwood
homotaxia
hot and hot
how are you fixed for sth?
ingan
initial orders
integrated camera
interior escape stair
isolated phase bus bar
isolated sign
Jovian magnetopause
klammers
La Gloria
Latimeridae
leprosied
leukorrheal diseases
liriodendra
Lithcarb atmosphere
logging depot
love-egg
mariner project
Minalpha
mother wart
Mountain Lakes
NOC (network operation center)
nondimensional
number of magnetic flux inter linkage
oilnut
optical shutter
papaveraceous
Payong, Bukit
photoelectrical refrigeration
polyformate
prescribed value
pressure-main
printed substrate
psychiatric drugs
radioiodinated steroid
random schedule
red-lead putty
ridged beach plain
Rose-cold
semidarkened
silktails
single-particles
sound post
strobe memory
study-time
swastikas
tallow-tree
tallowing
the-writings
Tongoy
trans-regulator
trolley-jib tower crane
unmediatized
vitellogenins
water tight sluice door
welfare building
wet calender stack
window film
wine-based
working principle diagram