TED爆红课程：如何在6个月内学会一门外语(2)
呐，当我说成年人能在6个月内学会任何一种外语，大多数人都认为我疯了，这是不可能的。因此，先让我提醒在座各位关于人类历史的进展，所有人类历史都是在扩展我们的极限。
In 1950 everybody believed that running one mile in four minutes was impossible and then Roger Bannister did it in 1956 and from there it’s got shorter and shorter。
在20世纪50年代，所有人都相信跑出4分钟1英里的成绩是不可能的，后来罗杰·班尼斯特在1965年做到了，而从那开始跑1英里的时间变得越来越短 。
100 years ago everybody believed that heavy stuff doesn’t fly。
100年前，每个人都相信重的物体不能飞。
Except it does and we all know this. How does heavy stuff fly?
它不但可以飞，而且我们大家都知道这个事实。那么，重物是怎样飞的呢？
We reorganize the materials using principles that we have learned from observing nature, birds in this case。
我们观察大自然的原理，在此是鸟飞行的原理，，根据这些我们重新组织材料来使重物可以飞。
And today we’ve gone ever further, so you can fly a car. You can buy one of these for a couple hundred thousand US dollars。
如今，我们甚至走得更远，你可以驾驶一辆会飞的汽车。你可以花几十万美元购买一辆这样的汽车。
We now have cars in the world that can fly。
我们现在有了会飞的汽车了。
And there’s a different way to fly that we’ve learned from squirrels。
在能飞的松鼠的身上我们学会了另一种不同的方式来飞。
So all you need to do is copy what a flying squirrel does, build a suit called a wing suit and off you go, you can fly like a squirrel。
你只要做的是去复制一只飞鼠如何飞的原理，建造一套翼服，你就可以像一只飞鼠那样可以在天空中飞翔。
Now, most people, a lot of people, I wouldn’t say everybody but a lot of people think they can’t draw。
那么，大多数人，很多人，我不会说所有人，但很多人认为他们不会画画。
However there are some key principles, five principles that you can apply to learning to draw and you can actually learn to draw in five days。
然而这里有一些重要的原则，5个原则你可以利用来学习画画并且实际上你可以在5天内学会。
So, if you draw like this, you learn these principles for five days and apply them and after five days you can draw something like this。
如果你平时画成这样，那么你学习5天这些原则然后应用它们，5天后，你可以画成这样。
Now I know this is true because that was my first drawing and after five days of applying these principles that was what I was able to do。
我知道这是真的，因为那是我第一次画的，5天后我应用了这些原则，我可以做到这样。
And I looked at this and I went ‘wow,’ so that’s how I look like when I’m concentrating so intensely that my brain is exploding。
当我看着这个，我“哇”了一声，那就是我非常强烈的，专注到我大脑快要爆炸的样子呀！
So, anybody can learn to draw in five days and in the same way, with the same logic, anybody can learn a second language in six months。
因此，任何人都能够用5天时间学会画画，同样地，用同样的方式和逻辑，任何人都可以在6个月内学会一门外语。
How: there are five principles and seven actions。
怎么做呢？ 有5个原则和7个行动可以跟随。
There may be a few more but these are absolutely core。
可能有更多，但这些绝对是核心部分。
And before I get into those I just want to talk about two myths, dispel two myths。
进入这些点之前我想先说说两个神话并消除它们。
The first is that you need talent。
第一个是你需要有天赋。
Let me tell you about Zoe。
让我跟你们说说关于佐伊的事情。
Zoe came from Australia, went to Holland, was trying to learn Dutch, struggling a great deal and finally people were saying: ‘you’re completely useless,’ ‘you’re not talented,’ ‘give up,’ ‘you’re a waste of time’ and she was very, very depressed。
佐伊是澳大利亚人，她去到荷兰并尝试学习荷兰语。她非常挣扎，最后人们跟她说，“没用的，”“你没有天赋，”“还是放弃吧，”“你根本就是在浪费时间。”她对此感到非常沮丧。
And then she came across these five principles, she moved to Brazil and she applied them and within six months she was fluent in Portuguese, so talent doesn’t matter。
后来，她无意中发现了这5个原则，去了巴西，并把这些原则应用到她学习葡萄牙语中，6个月内，她可以说流利的葡萄牙语了。因此，天赋不重要。
People also think that immersion in a new country is the way to learn a language。
人们还认为学会一门外语最好的方式就是到说该门语言的国家去。
But look around Hong Kong, look at all the westerners who’ve been here for ten years, who don’t speak a word of Chinese。
但是看看在香港已经呆了10年的西方人，还是一句中文也不会说。
Look at all the Chinese living in America, Britain, Australia, Canada who have been there ten, twenty years and they don’t speak any English。
看看那些居住在美国、英国、澳大利亚、加拿大10年、20年的中国人，还是不会一句英文。
Immersion per se doesn’t not work, why?
只呆在一个新的国家本身是没有用的。为什么？
Because a drowning man cannot learn to swim。
因为溺水的人是学不会游泳的。
When you don’t speak a language you’re like a baby and if you drop yourself into a context which is all adults talking about stuff over your head, you won’t learn。
当你不能说那种语言，你就像一个婴儿，如果你进入一个环境，那里全部都是成年人在叽叽呱呱的说一些你完全听不明白的话，你还是学不会。
So, what are the five principles that you need to pay attention to;
