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A few years ago, Mark Zuckerberg decided he wanted to learn Chinese, and in order to practice, he started trying to have work meetings with some of our Facebook colleagues who are native speakers.
几年前,马克·扎克伯格决定要学中文。为了练习,他开始尝试在一些工作会议中,同中文母语的Facebook同事交流。
《Sheryl Speech at Harvard》《Facebook COO谢丽尔·桑德伯格哈佛演讲》
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We can learn a lot from the rewarding experience of communicating with native speakers of English.
与以英语为母语的人交谈是非常有益的经历,从中我们能学到许多东西。
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Native speakers can distinguish between grammatical and ungrammatical sentences even when they have never heard particular combinations before.
母语使用者可以分辨符合语法规则和不符合语法规则的句子,即使他们以前从没有听过这些特定的词语组合。
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Even native speakers know only a fraction of these.
即便是母语为英语的人也只认识其中一小部分。
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Chinese can sing as well as native speakers of English.
中国人唱英语歌可以和说英语国家的人唱得一样好。
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Even native speakers miss some things when they watch movies.
就算是我们英语本土人士在看英语电影的时候也会漏掉一些东西。