How My Kids Learn English · Listening Time
视频分享孩子学习英语的有趣经历，适合练习听力理解。内容涵盖语言学习的自然过程和双语环境的影响，适合英语学习者提升听力技能。
Let's talk a little bit about how kids learn English.
我们来谈谈孩子们是如何学习英语的吧。
So this is a video in which I'm speaking at normal speed, by the way.
顺便说一下，这个视频中的我是以正常语速进行讲话的。
This will be good practice for your listening.
这对你的听力训练来说将是一次很好的练习。
Of course, the subtitles are right there.
当然，字幕就在那里。
So hopefully you can follow along as I'm talking about this.
希望在我讲解这个过程的时候，你们能够跟上我的思路。
I want to talk about the subject of kids learning English.
我想谈谈孩子们学习英语这个话题。
And I'm not giving a guide or anything like that.
我并不会提供任何指南或类似的东西。
I'm not really trying to make a ton of comparisons between us and kids.
我其实并不想在我们和孩子们之间进行过多的比较。
I just want to talk about the subject in general because it's really interesting.
我只是想大致谈谈这个话题，因为它确实非常有趣。
I have young kids and it's fascinating to watch them learn their native language.
我有年幼的孩子，看着他们学习自己的母语真是件非常有趣的事情。
It's a really interesting process that they go through.
他们所经历的这个过程确实非常有趣。
So I'm just going to give some general notes about these things that I've noticed.
那么，我就简单谈谈我注意到的一些普遍现象或问题吧。
And I hope that this will be an interesting topic for you to listen to as you practice.
我希望这个话题能让你在练习的过程中感到有趣，并且愿意认真聆听。
You're listening, just practicing your English listening comprehension with me, right?
你正在听我说话，其实是在和我一起练习英语听力理解能力，对吧？
So also remember that if you'd like this type of content in which I speak at normal speed,
另外请记住，如果您希望看到我以正常速度讲话的这类内容，
make sure to sign up for my advanced podcast episodes.
请务必注册收听我的高级版播客节目。
That link is down below.
那个链接就在下面。
Okay, let's talk about what it's like for a kid to learn English.
好的，让我们来谈谈孩子们学习英语的过程是怎样的。
Well, first of all, as a parent, it's kind of interesting.
嗯，首先，作为一名家长，这件事还挺有意思的。
It's kind of hard to realize how much your kid is learning in just any given moment, because you're with them all the time.
其实很难意识到自己的孩子在任何时候都在学习多少新知识——毕竟你一直都和他们在一起。
You don't really notice their progress until you look back and you say, wow,
直到你回顾过去，然后感叹“哇，他们真的取得了进步”，你才会真正注意到他们的成长。
they weren't able to say this before and now they can say this.
他们之前无法说出这些话，而现在却可以了。
Or maybe you watch old videos that
或者，你可能会观看一些旧视频……
you have of them and you realize, wow, they couldn't say anything back then and now they say all these different things.
你拥有这些信息，然后突然意识到：哇，当时他们什么都不敢说，而现在却能说出各种各样的话来。
So it's kind of hard to really track and fall this really closely in the moment because it happens very slowly.
因此，很难实时准确地跟踪这一过程的变化，因为它的发生速度非常缓慢。
But like a little by little, they start to be able to speak.
不过，慢慢地，他们开始能够说话了。
And after a while, you realize, well, they're saying all these different things.
过了一段时间后，你才会意识到：其实他们说的都是些不同的事情罢了。
So it's pretty cool.
所以这真的很酷。
My kids are growing up bilingual.
我的孩子们正在以双语方式成长。
So it's a different situation from the average kid in the US,
所以这种情况与美国普通的孩子有所不同。
because the average kid in the US, they just have to focus on one language.
因为在美国，普通的孩子只需要专注于学习一门语言而已。
Really, it's just one language, one system, one grammatical system, one set of vocabulary.
其实，这只是一种语言、一个语法体系以及一套词汇而已。
That's it.
就这样。
However, my kids are growing up bilingual, so that changes a lot.
不过，我的孩子们正在以双语的方式成长，因此情况发生了很大的变化。
It's double the words that they need to learn, double the rules, double the sounds,
他们需要学习的单词数量翻了一番，规则也翻了一番，发音的难度也增加了。
just a lot of stuff that they have to learn, and then separating those languages in their brain, right?
他们有很多东西需要学习，然后还需要在大脑中将这些语言区分开来，对吧？
Which happens, by the way, it happens at a very young age.
顺便说一下，这种情况其实发生在非常年幼的时期。
It's really fascinating to see that happen.
看到这种现象发生，真的非常令人着迷。
But it's a lot of stuff that they have to learn compared to the average person here in the US.
不过，与美国的普通人相比，他们需要学习的内容确实要多得多。
And so, of course, their development in each language is a little bit slower than the average kid who's only learning one language,
因此，他们在每种语言中的学习进度自然会比那些只学习一种语言的普通孩子稍慢一些。