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HowhardisEnglish?
Howweird?
主题语境:人与社会——历史、社会与文化
学习英语的难易程度,主要取决于学习者的母语是何语系。最近一项关于语言的研究试图确定哪种语言“最怪异”而不是“最难”。那么英语有多奇怪?相当奇怪,它位于239种语言的第33位。汉语普通话位列第25位,而在墨西哥部分地区使用的ChalcatongoMixtec在排名榜中独占鳌头。
WhetherEnglishisconfusingoreasymostlydependsonthelearner’s?native?language.A?native?speakerofGermanorDutch—languagesclosely?relatedto?English—willfindEnglishrelativelysimple.LearnerswhosefirstlanguageisChinese(completelyunrelated)orRussian(distantly?related)willfindEnglishmuchharder.Thisisgenerallytrueofalllanguagesaroundtheworld.Ifyoulearnalanguagegeographicallycloseandfromacommonancestorofyourfirstlanguage,therewillbefewerunpleasantsurprises,ateverylevelfromsoundtowordtosentence.So?ranking?languagesintermsof“difficulty”is?based?onyourownfeelingsandideas.
Arecentstudyonlanguagehastriedtodiscovernotwhichlanguagesare“hard”,butwhichare“weird”byexaminingthedifferent?features?ofhundredsoflanguages(fromwordordertowhethertensesareused).Thestudytriedtofindwhichlanguagesusethegreatestnumberofunusualfeatures—thosefeaturessharedwithfewotherlanguages.Thelanguagesthathavetheleastnumberof“common”featuresarethe“weirdest”.
SohowweirdisEnglish?Fairlyweird.Itsitsatnumber33of239languagesinthe“weirdnessindex”.MandarinChineseisjustabitweirderthanEnglishcominginatnumber25.Theweirdestlanguageofall?ChalcatongoMixtec(spokeninpartsof?Mexico).Itistheonlylanguagesurveyedthatdoesnothave?particles,achangeofwordorderandachangeof?intonation.Thereisnodifferencebetweenayes/noquestionandasimplestatement.TrytoimagineaTVgameshowinthislanguage.??
WhatareweirdaboutEnglish?
Plurals
hand-hands???????????foot-feet
man-men??????child-children
(uncountablewords:sheep/help/advice)
Tenses
EnglishistheonlylanguageonEarthwherethepresenttensehasaspeciale
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