托德:艾麗,你的日語(yǔ)課怎么樣了?
Eli: They're going OK. Japanese is a very difficult language and I think as someone who has never learned another language before I'm struggling more than other kids are. I feel that a lot of the other, say European kids, that this is there third or fourth language, that they can speak fluently, they pick it up very quickly, and for me it's slightly more difficult. As I say, our school is quite advanced and it moves very, very quickly in conversation. We're not learning any Kanji, which is kind of difficult cause that's one thing you really do need to learn if you're living here, but the conversation moves very quickly and we learn a lot of new stuff, so it's quite difficult to practice it all. I think that's the problem I'm finding, and a lot of my friends say the same thing: they're learning it all but then they don't have time to practice. It's actually crazy to think, you're in Japan but it's quite difficult to actually practice the Japanese language. You see all my Japanese friends they want to practice English with me, so, you actually end up being very lazy, and not talking that much Japanese, so I think that is the problem, just you have to have conversation through conversation all the time and I'm not really doing that at the moment, so yeah, it's difficult. I think I'll get there. I'm just about starting to understand stuff now.
艾麗:進(jìn)行得不錯(cuò)。日語(yǔ)是非常難的語(yǔ)言,我想就像以前從沒(méi)學(xué)過(guò)其他語(yǔ)言的人一樣,相比于那些孩子們,我的學(xué)習(xí)更艱難。我覺(jué)得,日語(yǔ)是那些歐洲小孩的第三或者是第四語(yǔ)言,他們的日語(yǔ)說(shuō)得非常流利,而且他們學(xué)得非???,而對(duì)我來(lái)說(shuō)日語(yǔ)學(xué)習(xí)就有點(diǎn)難。就像我說(shuō)過(guò)的,我上的學(xué)校非常先進(jìn),對(duì)話進(jìn)行的非??臁N覀儾粚W(xué)習(xí)日文漢字,這個(gè)非常難,因?yàn)槿绻阋谶@里生活就必須要學(xué)習(xí)日文漢字,但是因?yàn)閷?duì)話進(jìn)行的很快,所以我們要學(xué)很多新東西,所以很難都練習(xí)到。我想這是我發(fā)現(xiàn)的問(wèn)題,而我的許多朋友也說(shuō)了同樣的問(wèn)題:他們學(xué)習(xí)了所有的東西,但是他們沒(méi)有時(shí)間練習(xí)。實(shí)際上這很瘋狂,你在日本,但是你很難練習(xí)日語(yǔ)。你知道,我所有的日本朋友都想和我練習(xí)英語(yǔ),所以實(shí)際上完成英語(yǔ)練習(xí)時(shí)就非常慵懶了,不再說(shuō)更多的日語(yǔ)了,所以我認(rèn)為這就是問(wèn)題所在,你必須要一直進(jìn)行對(duì)話練習(xí),而我現(xiàn)在就沒(méi)有在用日語(yǔ)對(duì)話,所以,這很難。我認(rèn)為我會(huì)做到的。我現(xiàn)在只是剛剛開(kāi)始明白這件事。