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Language and Culture
語言與文化
Languages are marvelously complex
語言是極其復雜
and wonderfully complicated organs of culture:
難解的文化工具：
they embody the quickest and the most efficient means of communicating
它們是最快捷最有效的交流思想的手段
within their respective culture.
在各文化中。
To learn a foreign language is to learn another culture.
學習外語就等于學習另一種文化。
In a words of a poet and philosopher,
一位詩人兼哲學家曾經這樣說過：
"As many languages as one speaks, so many lives one lives."
"你懂幾種外語，你就過著幾種不同的生活。"
A culture and its language are as inseparable as brain and body;
文化及其語言正像人腦與人體一樣不可分割。
while one is a part of the other,neither can function without the other.
雖然其中一個是另一個的部分，但是失去一部分，另一部分就不能運作。
In learning a foreign language, the best beginning
學習外語最好的開始是
is with the non- verbal linguistic elements of the language,
從這種語言的非語言的語言成分開始，
its gestures,its body language.
即從手勢，體語開始。
Eye contact is extremely important in English.
在英語中，眼神的接觸極其重要。
Direct eye contact leads to understanding,
眼神直接接觸導致理解
or,as the English maxim has it,seeing eye-to-eye.
或者正如英語格言說的意見完全一致。
We can never see eye-to-eye with a native speaker of English
我們和說英語母語的人會意交融
until we have learned to look directly into his eyes.
直到我們學會了他們眼中的意思。
