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Speaking a Foreign Language Really Does Get Easier After You Have a Drink
一项新的研究显示,喝酒以后,你的外语会说得更加流利。研究发现,受试者在喝下酒精饮料后讲外语,发音更标准,专家的打分更高。如果这是真的,口语考试之前,是不是可以先来一杯?!
Take a quick tipple and you could find yourself speaking a second tongue more naturally, according to new research.
一项新的研究显示,一杯酒下肚以后,你的外语会说得更加流利。
The foreign language skills of participants in the study were found to be improved after a drink of alcohol, which suggests the way booze can put us at ease outweighs the negative effects on our brain – at least for the first drink, anyway.
研究发现,实验对象在喝下酒精饮料后,外语能力得到提高,这表明酒精令人身心放松的程度超过其对大脑产生的负面影响——至少喝完第一杯酒以后是这样的。
The international team of researchers is warning against reading too much into their experiment, but it could reveal some interesting insights into the anxiety associated with speaking another language, and how alcohol can help us overcome it.
这支国际化的研究团队提醒人们,不要对他们的实验做过分解读。不过,在讲外语时大脑的焦虑程度、以及酒精如何帮助我们克服这些情绪的问题上,该研究还是提供了一些有趣的洞见。
"Our study shows that acute alcohol consumption may have beneficial effects on the pronunciation of a foreign language in people who recently learned that language," says one of the team, Inge Kersbergen from the University of Liverpool in the UK.
英国利物浦大学的英奇•克斯伯根博士是该研究团队的成员,他表示:“我们的研究表明,快速喝下酒精饮料(俗语一口闷)可能对初学外语的人在发音上有所帮助。”
The study involved 50 native German speakers studying Dutch at a Dutch university, who had recently learned to speak, read, and write in the new language.
这项研究招募了50名在荷兰大学学习荷兰语的德国人,他们都是最近才学习荷兰语的听说读写的。
Based on random selections, participants were either given alcohol or water as a control beverage. The amount of alcohol varied based on body size, but was the equivalent of just under a pint (460 millilitres) of 5 percent beer for a 70kg male.
研究人员随机发给实验对象酒精饮料或作为对照实验的水。酒精饮料的量根据个人体型而异,相当于一名体重70公斤的男性要喝下460毫升酒精浓度为5%的啤酒。
They then chatted to a researcher for five minutes, before an audio recording was assessed by two native Dutch speakers who weren't told whether alcohol had been consumed or not. The participants were also asked to rate their own Dutch language skills over the course of the chat.
随后,他们与一名研究人员进行五分钟的闲聊,谈话录音交由两位荷兰人评估,评委不清楚录音中的学生是否喝了啤酒。研究人员还要求参与者对聊天过程中自己的荷兰语水平做出评价。
While the alcohol didn't affect how the students rated themselves, those people who had been given the alcoholic drink were given better ratings by the observers, especially for their pronunciation.
虽然酒精没有影响学生的自我评价,但评委却认为,喝过啤酒的实验者的荷兰语更好,尤其是发音更标准。
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