American English Street Interviews | What Languages Do Americans Speak? · Understandable English
通过街头采访了解美国人掌握的语言及学习动机。适合练习听力和口语，内容涵盖语言学习原因、建议和多语言使用体验。
Hello everyone, and welcome to my first video and the first episode of street interviews on understandable English You guys are learning English,
大家好，欢迎观看我的第一个视频，也是“用简单易懂的英语进行街头采访”系列的第一集。你们正在学习英语，对吧？
but what about Americans?
那么美国人呢？
Do they speak other languages?
他们会说其他语言吗？
Do they want to speak other languages?
他们是否希望使用其他语言进行交流？
So let's ask them.
那么，我们就去问问他们吧。
How many languages do they speak?
他们会说多少种语言？
What languages would they learn if they could and maybe some advice and motivation for you guys?
如果他们有能力的话，会学习哪些语言呢？另外，也给大家一些建议和激励吧。
Let's do it So how many languages do you speak?
我们开始吧。那么，你会说多少种语言呢？
I speak English fluently and then Chinese that like an intermediate level.
我的英语说得很流利，中文的水平则处于中级阶段。
Why did you study Chinese?
你为什么要学习中文呢？
Mostly because I took it in high school and I wanted to continue because I liked it I like learning another language.
主要是因为我高中时学过这门语言，而且我很喜欢它，所以想继续学习下去；我喜欢学习新的语言。
What did you get from learning another language anything interesting?
学习另一种语言后，你有什么有趣的收获吗？
Um, I mean I'm a STEM guy.
嗯，我的专业属于 STEM（科学、技术、工程和数学）领域。
I'm a math major and so I
我是数学专业的学生。
think it's a great way to like
我认为这是一种很好的方式，可以让人们彼此产生好感（或喜欢对方）。
I have Chinese every day from just
我每天都要学习中文（具体学习内容未在原文中提及）。
how courses I set up and so
我是如何设置这些课程的……
I think it's a great break from math every day and from all these I Guess start class every day.
我觉得这真是从每天都要面对的数学问题以及那些令人烦恼的日常事务中暂时解脱出来的好机会；毕竟每天上课时总是得从这些事情开始吧……
So I really enjoy it doing it If you could learn any language, what would it be?
所以我真的很喜欢做这件事。如果你可以选择学习任何一种语言，你会选择哪种呢？
Yeah, German because I'm a speech German
是的，我选择学习德语，因为我的专业是“演讲与沟通”（即与公众演讲相关的领域）。
and I speak like five words So I wish I could speak with her in German And if you could give advice to anyone learning English,
我每次说话只能说出大概五个词……真希望自己能用德语和她交流。另外，如果你们能给正在学习英语的人一些建议的话，那就太好了。
what would you say?
你会怎么说呢？
Gosh, I don't know it's hard as a native speaker.
天哪，作为母语使用者来说，这确实挺难的……
I guess but
我想是的，不过……
It can be hard because English is like six different languages pretending to be one, but
这可能会让人感到困惑，因为英语其实就像六种不同的语言“伪装”成一种语言一样。
It's worth it.
这是值得的。
I guess I don't know.
我想我也不太清楚。
I mean, how many languages do you guys speak?
我的意思是，你们会说多少种语言呢？
I'll say one in a quarter Yeah, that's a good answer.
我每四分之一小时说一次。”没错，这是个不错的答案。
I'm confident looking.
我看起来非常自信。
Wonder really much languages are those English and Japanese English and very little Spanish and what drove you to Japanese and Spanish?
我真的很想知道：那些语言中，英语和日语所占的比例是多少（英语占大部分，而西班牙语的比例非常低）？是什么促使你学习日语和西班牙语的呢？
I didn't want to take Spanish for some reason so I just took Japanese because it sounded
不知为何，我不想选西班牙语作为学习语言，于是就选择了日语——因为日语的发音听起来更悦耳（或：更符合我的喜好）。
I Took Spanish because I was from Texas and that seemed like the thing to do
我选择了学习西班牙语，因为我是来自德克萨斯州的，觉得这是理所当然的选择。
Wonderful and do you wish that you could speak these languages better?
太棒了！你是否也希望自己能更好地掌握这些语言呢？
Yeah, yeah in which way do you think you could improve yourself?
是的，你觉得自己在哪些方面可以提升自己呢？
If you wanted to learn I could have gone back a time and started harder in college like now
如果你想了解相关情况的话，其实我可以回到过去，在大学里更加努力学习（就像现在这样）。
I thought I had like an older is that a stone and I never did it so I
我以为自己有一块比较“古老”的石头（或者说是一块年代较久的石头），但实际上我一直都没有真正去验证这一点……
I'd like to to actually do it.
我真的想尝试去做这件事。
We live in San Diego.
我们住在圣地亚哥。
So like we're right by my name to go Wonderful if you can learn any language in the whole world.
其实，只要你能学会世界上任何一种语言，我的名字（“Wonderful”）就名副其实了。