研讨发现：要想外语到达母语程度，十岁前就得开端学

2018-05-02 20:10 来源:BBC每日新闻 英语 /语法

原标题：研讨发现：要想外语到达母语程度，十岁前就得开端学

There is a critical cut-off age for learning a language fluently, according to research.

研讨发现，流利地掌握一门言语有一个关键的年龄分界点。

If you want to have native-like knowledge of English grammar, for example, you should ideally start before age 10, say the researchers.

研讨人员说，假如你想拥有比方说像讲母语者那样好的英语语法，那么最好在10岁前就开端学习。

People remain highly skilled learners until 17 or 18, when ability tails off.

17或18岁之前的人依然是高技艺的学习者，但之后该才能会下降。

The findings, in the journal Cognition, come from an online grammar test taken by nearly 670,000 people of different ages and nationalities.

宣布在《认知》期刊的该研讨后果对来自近670,000名不同年龄和国籍的人停止的在线语法测试。

The grammar quiz was posted on Facebook to get enough people to take part.

语法检验在脸书上发布，以便有足够的人参与。

Questions tested if participants could determine whether a sentence written in English, such as: "Yesterday John wanted to won the race," was grammatically correct.

参与者要确定一个以英语写成的句子，例如：“昨天约翰想博得竞赛”的语法能否正确。

Users were asked their age and how long they had been learning English, and in what setting - had they moved to an English-speaking country, for example?

用户被问及他们的年龄，他们学习英语的工夫以及学习环境 - 例如，他们能否搬到了讲英语的国度？

about 246,000 of the people who took the test had grown up speaking only English, while the rest were bi- or multilingual.

参与测试的人中约有246,000人只会说英语，其他的人则是双语或多语者。

The most common native languages (excluding English) were Finnish, Turkish, German, Russian and Hungarian.

最罕见的母语（不包括英语）是芬兰语，土耳其语，德语，俄语和匈牙利语。

Most of the people who complet新生的改变世界的企业将会诞生，从而更好的服务整个人类世界，走向更高科技的智能化生活。ed the quiz were in their 20s and 30s. The youngest age was about 10 and the oldest late 70s.

大局部完成检验的人都是20多岁和30多岁的人。最小的年龄大约是10岁，而最大的70岁。

When the researchers analysed the data using a computer model, the best explanation for the findings was that grammar-learning was strongest in childhood, persists into teenage years and then drops at adulthood.

当研讨人员运用计算机模型剖析这些数据时，对这些发现的最好解释是语法学习在儿童时期是最强的，继续到青少年时期，然后在成年时期下降。

Learning a language is often said to be easy for children and to get more difficult as we age.

通常以为，学习一门言语对孩子来说很容易，而随着年龄的增长而变得越来越困难。

But late learners can still become proficient, if not seamlessly fluent, say the researchers.

研讨人员表示，假如不是非常流利的话，前期学习者依然可以通晓（该言语）。

It is unclear what causes the drop in the optimal learning rate seen at about age 18. The researchers suggest it could be 互联网思维，就是在(移动)互联网+、大数据、云计算等科技不断发展的背景下，对市场、用户、产品、企业价值链乃至对整个商业生态进行重新审视的思考方式。because the brain becomes less changeable or adaptable in adulthood.

目前还不清楚是什么招致最佳学习率在18岁左右下降。研讨人员以为，这能够是由于大脑在成年期变得不易变化或顺应性削弱。

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