美語情景對話 第159期:流利英語 Good English
Todd: Now, Christian, you.#39;re English is amazing. Perfect actually.
Christian，你英語說的真好，簡直太棒了。
Christian: Thank you.
謝謝。
Todd: And many people from Norway have excellent English. What is the secret about Norway?
很多來自挪威的人英語都很棒。到底是有什麼祕訣呢？
Christian: I don't know. I actually heard that before that I meet a lot of people and they say,"Oh, you're from Norway.
我不知道。只是之前，我碰到很多人的時候他們都會說，“哦，你來自挪威。”
Norwegian people speak such good English. Why is that?"
挪威人能說得一口流利的英文。這是爲什麼呢？
Personally I think it's because we get a lot of exposure to English, through TV, music, media, everything, and we don't dub movies and TV programs like they do in many other countries.
我個人覺得是因爲我們生長在英語的大環境下，電視，音樂，媒體，一切的一切都是英文的，而且不同於其他國家，電影以及電視節目都是沒有配音的。
We get subtitles. And the same with music. English music is very, very popular.
我們有字幕。音樂也是一樣的。英文歌也是非常流行的。
Probably more popular that Norwegian music, and I guess as well the education system provides us with really good, you know, teaching so, I mean all those combined together, you know, creates, how to say.
也許更出名的是挪威樂曲，而且我想校方也提供了相當棒的音樂課，所以我的意思是，所有的這些加起來就造就了我們。恩怎麼說呢，你知道的。
Todd: Super speakers!
一流的演說家！
Christian: I don't know super speakers. It's a good combination, I guess in term of learning the language, so, you know, and a lot of Norwegians travel as well and they have time to practice as well, which is important if you want to speak English well.
我不知道什麼一流演說家。但這是個很好的融合，我想，單是從學語言方面考慮，很多挪威人出去旅遊，同時會有更多的時間說英語，練習英語。如果你想學好英語這一點是很重要的。
Todd: Sure, well, how difficult is it to learn Norwegian?
當然，那學習挪威語會有多難呢？
Christian: That is probably more difficult that English, I'd say, but it's interesting I have a private Japanese student at the moment and he went to Norway on exchange from his university here in Japan
我不得不說那可能會比英語更難，但有趣的是我現在有個日本學生，他從他學校來挪威做交換生。
and he didn't speak a word of Norwegian before he went but he spent the year there, and he now can have a decent conversation with me in Norwegian.
而且他來之前不會說一句挪威語但他在這兒呆了幾年，現在跟很熟練地跟我用挪威語對話了。
That's three years ago since he went there, but still he speaks pretty well.
他來這兒才三年，但挪威語仍然講得很好。
