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
adult T cell leukemia
alarm wheel rocker cover
antonelliana
atomic dusting
attachment of nonpressure parts
back-end networking
booster immunization
Cambridge Platonists
caraneol
case back flaw
central mechanical processing
centre rest
christianly
Class Maintained Certificate
class Taxopsida
cross - country race
currymunchers
Dal'nerechensk
deciple
declining years
degenerative process
Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe
discharge of pus
dog sleigh
drainage flow
drape moulding
drop-away reset
feed pipe for mortar
filifera
finskos
fishermen
galacantha valdiviae
give a fig
ground rice machine
harnessable
heteroploids
higher-order predicate calculus
horizontal exaggeration
hornlets
hydraulic cylinder piston stop rod
Igarapé Miri
infantile atrophy
inhospitably
iodine metabolism
jadite
khabris
KNRK
kruisinga
laser beam perforating machine
Leach's petrel
lift-type
loosely-suppressible character frame
Ludvika
luls
macrophyte
maitre
meeko
methyl red tests
Miami Dolphins
Microula
milk wagons
n-methyl tetrahydropapaverine
Neo-Darwinism
niching
nutation of gyroscope
oil spill biological treatment
opthalm-
outside firm
Palgrave Pt.
panstroside
paper based artificial leather
peduncular muscle
persist
powder metallurgy molybdenum
Prccyclidine
proplexity
pudding house
Puerto Arturo
quantomechanics
radioactivity log
reference eyepiece
refractory material technology
remortgaging
renal column
sheet stackers
siouaner
sketching paper
stiff-plastic making
stormlessness
subepithelia
take in a movie
temper parameter
tetraplegia
tholi
Trade follow the flag.
tubular-type tank
unwerth
variable deceleration
War Ship Changed from Merchant Ship
whoring around
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