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There's an interesting illustration of this.
舉一個(gè)有趣的例子。
I have to go slightly obscure, but really you should seek it out.
可能這個(gè)例子沒(méi)那么直觀，但是你應(yīng)該可以理解。
There's a movie by the Canadian film director Denys Arcand
加拿大導(dǎo)演Denys Arcand執(zhí)導(dǎo)的一部電影，
read out in English on the page, "Dennis Ar-cand," if you want to look him up.
如果有興趣，你可以上網(wǎng)查一下，英語(yǔ)是Dennis Ar-cand。
He did a film called "Jesus of Montreal."
他拍了一部電影叫《蒙特利爾的耶穌》。
And many of the characters are vibrant, funny, passionate, interesting French-Canadian, French-speaking women.
電影中很多角色都是說(shuō)法語(yǔ)的法語(yǔ)區(qū)加拿大女人，充滿活力，為人風(fēng)趣，充滿熱情。
There's one scene closest to the end, where they have to take a friend to an Anglophone hospital.
在影片結(jié)尾有一個(gè)場(chǎng)景，他們要送一個(gè)朋友到講英語(yǔ)的醫(yī)院。
In the hospital, they have to speak English.
在醫(yī)院里他們需要講英語(yǔ)。
Now, they speak English but it's not their native language, they'd rather not speak English.
她們會(huì)說(shuō)英語(yǔ)，但是不是母語(yǔ)，她們不太愿意講英語(yǔ)。
And they speak it more slowly, they have accents, they're not idiomatic.
她們的語(yǔ)速慢了下來(lái)，講的話有口音并且顯得生硬。
Suddenly these characters that you've fallen in love with become husks of themselves, they're shadows of themselves.
突然間，這些你已經(jīng)愛(ài)上的角色變成了空空的軀殼，變成了她們自己的影子。
To go into a culture and to only ever process people through that kind of skrim curtain is to never truly get the culture.
了解一種文化，如果只是透過(guò)表面那一層面紗，我們是無(wú)法真正理解的。
And so to the extent that hundreds of languages will be left,
所以既然未來(lái)幾百種語(yǔ)言會(huì)存活下來(lái)，
one reason to learn them is because they are tickets to being able to participate in the culture of the people who speak them,
學(xué)外語(yǔ)的一個(gè)理由就是它是我們理解和融入一種文化的一張門票，
just by virtue of the fact that it is their code. So that's one reason.
因?yàn)檎Z(yǔ)言就是打開(kāi)文化的鑰匙。以上是第一個(gè)原因。
