2019英语专八听力mini lecture全真模拟训练MP3附文本（二十一）

2019英语专八听力mini lecture全真模拟训练MP3附文本（二十一）

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　　[00:10.12]TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS--GRADE EIGHT

　　[00:13.51]Section A MINI-LECTURE

　　[00:16.97]In this section you will hear a mini-lecture.

　　[00:20.29]You will hear the mini-lecture ONCE ONLY.

　　[00:23.73]While listening to the mini-lecture,

　　[00:25.82]please complete the gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE

　　[00:30.29]and write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each gap.

　　[00:34.70]Make sure the word(s) you fill in is (are) both grammatically

　　[00:39.23]and semantically acceptable.

　　[00:41.85]You may use the blank sheet for note-taking.

　　[00:45.67]You have THIRTY seconds to preview the gap-filling task.

　　[01:19.89]Now, listen to the mini-lecture.

　　[01:22.30]When it is over, you will be given THREE minutes

　　[01:25.05]to check your work.

　　[01:27.33]Should You Learn Thai?

　　[01:29.68]Good morning, everyone.

　　[01:31.80]In our lecture series of language orientation,

　　[01:35.17]today we will turn our attention to an oriental language — Thai.

　　[01:40.90]Ten years ago, I took my first Thai language class.

　　[01:45.69]After a trip to Thailand, I decided for the next one I'd try to learn the language

　　[01:51.83]so I signed up for a Thai class at a local temple near my home in the US.

　　[01:58.54]Fast forward ten years, and I'm living in Thailand.

　　[02:03.03]I am still studying Thai and becoming more comfortable

　　[02:06.79]in speaking it fluently every day.

　　[02:09.92]But, if you're thinking of signing up for a Thai language class,

　　[02:14.99]is it really the language for you? Is Thai useful? Is it an easy language?

　　[02:21.80]Or would studying French or German be a better fit?

　　[02:25.88]Of course, only you can make that decision,

　　[02:29.61]but today I will tell you eight things about the Thai language.

　　[02:34.82]You may decide by your own whether Thai is your cup of tea.

　　[02:40.92]First of all, Thai is a tonal language.

　　[02:45.21]Thai is one of the families of language that are tonal.

　　[02:49.07]What that means is each word in Thai holds a specific tone

　　[02:54.74]and in order to speak it correctly you must be able to remember the tone

　　[02:59.93]and use it every time you say the word. Otherwise, others may misunderstand you.

　　[03:06.96]If you're tone-deaf and cannot hear the difference

　　[03:10.54]between a low tone and a high tone, Thai may not be for you.

　　[03:16.83]Secondly, Thai does not use the Roman alphabet.

　　[03:21.20]Unlike languages like French or Spanish, Thai does not use the Roman alphabet.

　　[03:28.09]What that means is you have to learn

　　[03:30.89]a completely new alphabet of 44 consonants and 28 vowels

　　[03:36.94]before you can even begin to learn the language.

　　[03:40.55]Yes, you hear that correctly, 28 vowels or vowel sounds.

　　[03:46.96]Before you can learn new words in Thai, you have to memorize the alphabet

　　[03:52.39]along with how those consonants and vowels are written.

　　[03:56.98]For many who attempt Thai, they soon give up

　　[04:00.59]as remembering the alphabet alone is a lost cause.

　　[04:05.33]Thirdly, vowel placement.

　　[04:08.13]Another lovely fun thing about Thai is where the vowels are placed when it's written.

　　[04:14.90]A vowel can either go before a consonant but is pronounced after the consonant.

　　[04:20.64]It can also go after the consonant, above the consonant or below the consonant.

　　[04:26.74]Where it is placed in the word tells you how to pronounce it.

　　[04:30.86]Oh and yes, you have to memorize that too.

　　[04:35.42]Fourthly, not many people speak Thai.

　　[04:39.09]If you want a language you can use all over the world, it's not Thai.

　　[04:44.25]With 64 million people in Thailand, only around 20 million speak Thai.

　　[04:50.49]The others speak one of various dialects or another Tai language

　　[04:55.73]and yes, that's "Tai" and not "Thai".

　　[05:00.01]If you want a language you can use everywhere,

　　[05:03.39]probably you should try French, Spanish or Chinese.

　　[05:08.11]However, you can also look at it this way.

　　[05:11.66]Should you ever live in Thailand, you'll be unique

　　[05:15.21]as few foreigners speak, read and write Thai well.

　　[05:20.87]Fifthly, there is no distinction between adverbs and adjectives.

　　[05:27.09]The same word can be used as an adjective or an adverb,

　　[05:32.01]as there aren't separate words for the two.

　　[05:35.25]Not as interesting a language as English or as beautiful as Spanish,

　　[05:40.35]particularly when you come to write poetry in it.

　　[05:44.67]Sixthly, there is no inflected verbs and no tenses in Thai.

　　[05:50.71]Unlike most European languages, where the language inflects,

　　[05:55.64]for instance, go, going, went, Thai has no inflection.

　　[06:01.86]The word "to go", "Bpai", is always "Bpai", no matter who is speaking,

　　[06:09.39]whether it's future, past or present,

　　[06:12.82]if there are more than one or any number of other reasons.

　　[06:17.30]So it might be frustrating when you're trying to figure out

　　[06:21.34]how to say "I was going there tomorrow but...".

　　[06:25.98]Technically, there are no tenses in Thai.

　　[06:30.03]The verb itself "Bpai" (go) is used when modifying words are added,

　　[06:35.58]i.e. yesterday, today, next week, "ja" to indicate future,

　　[06:41.88]to help the listener understand what time the speaker is talking about.

　　[06:47.70]Seventhly, Thai has so many pronouns to learn.

　　[06:52.65]Another frustrating thing about learning Thai is all the pronouns you have to learn.

　　[06:59.04]Depending on who you're speaking to,

　　[07:01.65]younger, older, a higher social level, a monk etc,

　　[07:06.76]you must use different pronouns. Thais know it instinctively.

　　[07:12.44]Anyone else often runs through pronouns in their head

　　[07:16.51]before they figure out which is the correct one

　　[07:19.45]and, by that time, the listener has moved on to speak to someone else.

　　[07:25.98]Eighthly, Thais speak of themselves by name.

　　[07:30.65]I don't know about you, but I'm not in the habit of going around saying

　　[07:35.96]"Susan will go to the market tomorrow with you", but they do in Thailand.

　　[07:41.41]It's deemed impolite to use the word "I" very much

　　[07:46.46]as it denotes being too self-involved,

　　[07:49.76]so Thais often speak of themselves in the third person instead of first

　　[07:55.39]and by given name instead of "she".

　　[07:59.03]Now, in all fairness, I love learning and speaking Thai,

　　[08:03.59]and have a great sense of accomplishment for how much I can speak already.

　　[08:08.76]I also think it's a beautiful language, particularly in the way it's written.

　　[08:14.26]For others though, the frustrations can often outweigh the benefits,

　　[08:19.49]so if you don't have a lot of patience to figure out an incredibly complex language

　　[08:25.42]or want to be able to speak a foreign language you can actually use

　　[08:29.54]in most countries in the world, then Thai maybe isn't for you.

　　[08:35.12]And I hope this orientation will help you make a decision

　　[08:38.98]whether you are going to pick Thai as your second foreign language.

　　[08:43.35]Next time, I believe we will have another teacher

　　[08:46.80]from the Oriental School of our university to give you an orientation about Japanese.

　　[08:55.63]Now you have THREE minutes to check your work.

　　[11:59.88]This is the end of Section A MINI-LECTURE.

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