新东方英语900句开口篇22

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Lesson Twenty-two Language 语言
Do you speak English?
您讲英文吗？

Do you speak Chinese?
I can speak in English.
Chinese English French
Italian German Spanish
Portuguese¹ Japanese Korean
Excuse me, do you speak English?

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Lesson Twenty-two Language 语言
I am proficient² in English, and I can speak a little German.
我英文很精通，而且我会说一点点德语。

English language proficiency³ text 英语水平测试
I speak only a little English.
I can speak a little Chinese.
It‘s broken.
Well, sorry, I speak broken Enlgish.
Forgive my broken English.

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Lesson Twenty-two Language 语言
My English still needs work.
我的英语还有提高的余地。

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Lesson Twenty-two Language 语言
How long have you been studying Spanish?
您西班牙语学了多长时间了？

I have been studying English for two years.
I started to learn English since two years ago.

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Lesson Twenty-two Language 语言
What is your mother tongue?
您的母语是什么？

mother tongue
mother language
native language
I’m a Beijing native.
Beijing Native in New York
Shanghai Native in Tokyo.
Chinese is my native language.

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Lesson Twenty-two Language 语言
Italian is her native language, but she speaks French fluently too.
意大利语是他的母语，但他的法语也说得很流利。

Chinese is my mother tongue.
I am proficient in English.
I am professional in English.
I can speak fluent English.
fluency⁴ n. 流利

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Lesson Twenty-two Language 语言
How many languages do you speak?
您说几门语言？

I can speak in three languages.
I’m a trilingual.
I’m a bilingual.
Canada is a bilingual country.

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Lesson Twenty-two Language 语言
I can read and write in three languages.
我可以用三种语言进行读写。

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Lesson Twenty-two Language 语言
How well do you know Chinese?
你中文懂多少？

How well do you know English?
How long ... 多久
How many ... 多少
How well ... 程度如何

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Lesson Twenty-two Language 语言
She speaks mandarin⁵ with a strong accent.
我说普通话口音很重。

accent 口音
She is speaking English with a strong Japanese accent.
dialect 方言
local vernacular⁶
Do you speak the local vernacular?
We must master the local vernacular.
mandarin Chinese 普通话
mandarin fish 鳜鱼 mandarin bird 鸳鸯
Cantonese 广东话 Hokkien 闽南话 Hakka 客家话
character 汉字 alphabetic⁷ 字母的
Pinyin plan 汉语拼音方案
Chinese phonetic⁸ alphabet
letter 字母 word 单词 phrase 词组
sentence 句子 paragraph 段落 text 正文

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Lesson Twenty-two Language 语言
Everyone makes mistakes when they are learning to speak.
每个人在学说话的时候都会犯错。

Speak it out. Don‘t be afraid to lose face.

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Lesson Twenty-two Language 语言
As for me, reciting is essential to mastering a foreign language.
就我而言，背诵对掌握一门外语至关重要。

as for sb.
as to sth.
essential = crucial
master v. 掌握
master a foreign language
master n. 主人
You are my master now.
be essential to sth.
As for me, dictation is essential to mastering English listening comprehension.

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Will you slow down? I can‘t follow you.
您说慢点好吗？我跟不上你。

Will you speed up?
Will you speak up?
Will you speak down?

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Lesson Twenty-two Language 语言
What do you mean by 揅hinese characteristics?
您说揅hinese characteristics斒鞘裁匆馑迹?

character 汉字、性格
characteristics 具体性格特征
We are going to build socialism with Chinese
characteristics.
By Chinese characteristics, I mean that ...

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Lesson Twenty-two Language 语言
English
French
Russian
Chinese
Spanish + Arabic
most commonly used language
English speaking countries
UK
US
Australia
Ireland
New Zealand
France
Canada

1 Portuguese   

n.葡萄牙人；葡萄牙语

参考例句：

• They styled their house in the Portuguese manner.他们仿照葡萄牙的风格设计自己的房子。
• Her family is Portuguese in origin.她的家族是葡萄牙血统。

2 proficient   

adj.熟练的，精通的；n.能手，专家

参考例句：

• She is proficient at swimming.她精通游泳。
• I think I'm quite proficient in both written and spoken English.我认为我在英语读写方面相当熟练。

3 proficiency   

n.精通，熟练，精练

参考例句：

• He plied his trade and gained proficiency in it.他勤习手艺，技术渐渐达到了十分娴熟的地步。
• How do you think of your proficiency in written and spoken English?你认为你的书面英语和口语熟练程度如何？

4 fluency   

n.流畅，雄辩，善辩

参考例句：

• More practice will make you speak with greater fluency.多练习就可以使你的口语更流利。
• Some young children achieve great fluency in their reading.一些孩子小小年纪阅读已经非常流畅。

5 Mandarin   

n.中国官话，国语，满清官吏；adj.华丽辞藻的

参考例句：

• Just over one billion people speak Mandarin as their native tongue.大约有十亿以上的人口以华语为母语。
• Mandarin will be the new official language of the European Union.普通话会变成欧盟新的官方语言。

6 vernacular   

adj.地方的，用地方语写成的；n.白话；行话；本国语；动植物的俗名

参考例句：

• The house is built in a vernacular style.这房子按当地的风格建筑。
• The traditional Chinese vernacular architecture is an epitome of Chinese traditional culture.中国传统民居建筑可谓中国传统文化的缩影。

7 alphabetic   

adj.照字母次序的，字母的

参考例句：

• A generic name for a device that can store and process numeric and alphabetic in formation. 能存储和处理数字与字母信息的设备的总称。 来自辞典例句
• A coded character set whose character set is an alphabetic character set. 一种编码字符集，它的字符集是一种字母字符集。 来自互联网

8 phonetic   

adj.语言的，语言上的，表示语音的

参考例句：

• Our department has engaged a foreign teacher as phonetic adviser.我们系已经聘请了一位外籍老师作为语音顾问。
• English phonetic teaching is an important teaching step in elementary stages.语音教学是英语基础阶段重要的教学环节。