PTE Re-tell Lecture 真实讲座练习题:威尔士语言

在PTE中,无论是Summarise Spoken Text 还是 Re-tell Lecture的考题大都是从真实的讲座或者演讲中截取的,中间经常经常夹杂很多不同的环境音.很多同学都反映有时未必是听不懂,而是听不到. 鉴于此,墨尔本文波雅思PTE专门为大家总结了真实讲座的PTE练习音频,相比新闻音频来说,整体更加接近PTE考试的真题,内容方面,我们也会为大家提供考试中存在的近似题,最近我们会持续更新,敬请期待!


The Internet is changing everything. The world of language in the future is totally different from the world of language in the past and the reason is quite simple. There is more written language on the Internet now than all the libraries in the world combined. We’ve never seen anything like it before and we haven’t seen anything yet. When you’re talking about the future of a language, we are asking about its long-term prospects, where do they essentially lie? And my answer is they lie in the young people, they lie especially in the hands of teenagers. The teenagers are the parents of next generation of children. If teenagers are going to succeed in maintaining the intergenerational transmission of a language, then they have got to be infused about the minority language, the endangered language that their parents and others speak, so how would you get teenagers infused is the question. Well there is no question today, the only thing that infuses teenagers, apart from sex, is the internet and all the electronic world. And so that is the area where one has got to focus. A minority language has got to get itself up electronically in all the varieties that are available to it. Now in the case of something like welsh, there is already quite a strong welsh presence on the World Wide Web and increasingly there are welsh chat rooms, welsh blogs, welsh face book interactions and so on. Well this is a very very positive sign, and it needs to be reinforced as much as possible. The future of the welsh language, I think all languages actually lies in the electronic domain.

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