(单词翻译:单击)
Todd: Now, Christian, you're English is amazing. Perfect actually.
Christian,你英语说的真好,简直太棒了
Christian: Thank you.
谢谢
Todd: And many people from Norway have excellent English. What is the secret about Norway?
很多来自挪威的人英语都很棒
Christian: I don't know. I actually heard that before that I meet a lot of people and they say,"Oh, you're from Norway.
我不知道
Norwegian people speak such good English. Why is that?"
挪威人能说得一口流利的英文
Personally I think it's because we get a lot of exposure to English, through TV, music, media, everything, and we don't dub movies and TV programs like they do in many other countries.
我个人觉得是因为我们生长在英语的大环境下,电视,音乐,媒体,一切的一切都是英文的,而且不同于其他国家,电影以及电视节目都是没有配音的
We get subtitles. And the same with music. English music is very, very popular.
我们有字幕
Probably more popular that Norwegian music, and I guess as well the education system provides us with really good, you know, teaching so, I mean all those combined together, you know, creates, how to say.
也许更出名的是挪威乐曲,而且我想校方也提供了相当棒的音乐课,所以我的意思是,所有的这些加起来就造就了我们
Todd: Super speakers!
一流的演说家!
Christian: I don't know super speakers. It's a good combination, I guess in term of learning the language, so, you know, and a lot of Norwegians travel as well and they have time to practice as well, which is important if you want to speak English well.
我不知道什么一流演说家
Todd: Sure, well, how difficult is it to learn Norwegian?
当然,那学习挪威语会有多难呢?
Christian: That is probably more difficult that English, I'd say, but it's interesting I have a private Japanese student at the moment and he went to Norway on exchange from his university here in Japan
我不得不说那可能会比英语更难,但有趣的是我现在有个日本学生,他从他学校来挪威做交换生
and he didn't speak a word of Norwegian before he went but he spent the year there, and he now can have a decent conversation with me in Norwegian.
而且他来之前不会说一句挪威语但他在这儿呆了几年,现在跟很熟练地跟我用挪威语对话了
That's three years ago since he went there, but still he speaks pretty well.
他来这儿才三年,但挪威语仍然讲得很好
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