native language

native language的基本解释

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母语, 本机语言, 机器各单元间编码语言

与native language相关的情景对话

校园生活/Easy and Difficult-(易学的和难学的语言)

A:

People always say that Chinese and English are very hard to learn. Sometimes I wish I were learning French or Japanese. Maybe they'd be easier.

人们常说汉语和英语是很难学的。有的时候我想要是我学法语或日语就好了。 也许这两种语言容易些。

B:

Maybe, but maybe not too. It all depends on what language you already speak.

可能，不过也可能不太容易。这要看你原来是说什么语言的。

A:

Why should that be? What diffrence does it make?

为什么呢？这有什么关系？

B:

Well, languages are more or less equally difficult.Most of the things one language says must be said by every language in some way.

哦，语言大体上都是同样地难学。一种语言中所说的绝大部分东西，在别的语言中差不多都有。

A:

You mean I could learn Chinese easily?

你的意思是说我学汉语会很容易？

B:

No, because your native language is Spanish. But Italian might be easy. It has a lot of words that are similar to words in Spanish. Even the sound systems are more similar than that of Chinese is to Spanish. How difficult a language is to learn depends mostly on how much it resembles your own language.

不，因为你的母语是西班牙语。所以意大利语可能容易些。它有很多词同西班牙语相似。连它的语音体系也比汉语更接近西班牙语。一种语言是否难学，主要看它在多大程度上同自己的语言相近。