Name: Why these UK school kids love learning languages
Uploaded: 2020-03-31T04:34:09.000Z
Duration: 1 min 55 s

My name is Adnan, and I've been learning Mandarin inside school.

我叫阿德南，我一直在學校裡面學習國語。

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I want to be into banking because there's lots of money.

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Maybe I can get lots of deals by talking to Chinese people.

也許我可以通過和中國人交談得到很多交易。

We're not learning something that we're used to, and it's not like anything we've ever done before.

我們學習的東西不是我們習慣的，也不像我們以前做過的任何事情。

We're just used to doing like English and maths, but now we're going to learn a completely new language.

我們只是習慣於做像英語和數學，但現在我們要學習一種全新的語言。

It's actually really unique, it's really interesting, and it's, uh, fun to do.

其實這真的很獨特，很有趣，而且，呃，很好玩。

You become more confident as a person being able to communicate with others.

你會變得更加自信，作為一個人能夠與他人溝通。

I think Spanish i(s) really useful because 40-plus countries speak Spanish, so I think business wise it's gonna be helpful in the future.

我認為西班牙語真的很有用，因為有40多個國家都說西班牙語，所以我認為從商業角度來說，它在未來會很有幫助。

Maths and English, it's more like write in your books and look at the board, but here we get to interact.

數學和英語，更多的是寫在本子上，看在黑板上，但在這裡我們可以互動。

My teacher Miss Smith started to teach us French.

我的老師史密斯小姐開始教我們法語。

From learning French I learned German; from being in Germany I found out about Hamilton Theater, and here I am today talking to you about learning languages having had a career that's gone on for 40 years now.

從學習法語，我學會了德語；從在德國，我發現了漢密爾頓劇院，今天我在這裡和大家聊一聊學習語言已經有40年的職業生涯了。

Languages for me are about opening the world up.

語文對我來說，就是要把世界打開。

It gives you another soul, it gives you another person, and, you know, the world became more mine.

它給了你另一個靈魂，給了你另一個人，而且，你知道，這個世界變得更加屬於我。

When you go on a holiday, people just talk in languages that you can't even understand a word of, but since I'm learning Mandarin, well, hopefully I can actually understand what they're saying.

當你去度假的時候，人們就會用一些你根本聽不懂的語言說話，但是因為我在學習國語，好吧，希望我能真正聽懂他們在說什麼。

If I can meet people at this age and be able to talk to him in a different language, then what can I do when I may be a couple years older?

如果我這個年齡能見到人，能和他用不同的語言交談，那麼等我可能再大幾歲的時候，我可以做什麼呢？

謝謝你，拉斯科什尼茨卡教授。