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就是这个小哥！
他会56种语言！
Ever since he was a little boy growing up in Tuzla, an industrial city in the former Yugoslavia (currently in Bosnia Herzegovina), Muhamed Mešić was fascinated by languages. 
梅希奇在前南斯拉夫（目前的波黑共和国）的工业城市图兹拉长大，当他还是小男孩时，就对语言极为着迷。
His exceptional talent for quickly learning to communicate in different languages was discovered by chance, when he was just 5-years-old. He was on vacation with his family, in Greece, and recalls being able to listen to their local neighbor speaking Greek and figuring out what he was saying from the situation they were in.
当他那快速学习以不同语言沟通的卓越才华被偶然间发现时，他才只有5岁。那时他和家人正在希腊度假，他能够回忆起当地邻居所说的希腊语，并根据现场情景理解他们在说什么。

But that was only the beginning of his journey to mastering as many languages as he could. When he was nine, he picked up Swedish from the Swedish soldiers stationed in his town during the Bosnian Civil War, and after the conflict he went on a trip to Hungary and managed to learn Hungarian as well.
但这还只是他语言精通之旅的开始。当他九岁时，他通过波斯尼亚内战期间驻扎在该地的瑞典士兵学会了瑞典语。冲突结束后，他又前去匈牙利旅行，并设法学会了匈牙利语。
Before long, his family realized that there was something special about Muhamed. The doctors who examined him concluded that it was his Asperger’s Syndrome (a light form of Autism) that allowed him to pick up new foreign languages so easily, sometimes unintentionally. 
不久之后，他的家人觉察到了他的天赋。医生检查后得出结论，他患上了阿斯伯格综合征（轻度自闭症），这种疾病使得他能够轻松地、有时无意识地掌握新的外语。

He recalls that one time, a friend asked him to learn Latvian so he could accompany him on a business trip, and he was able to become fluent in the Baltic language in just 2 weeks, with the help of YouTube, two books and 43 cartoons.
他回忆说，有一次一位朋友希望他学习拉脱维亚语，以便陪其一同出差。于是在YouTube、2本书、以及43本卡通的帮助下，他在短短2周内就掌握了一口流利的波罗的语。
But despite his remarkable ability to pick up foreign languages with ease, Muhamed Mešić is also 100% dedicated to his passion for languages and dedicates almost all of his time to studying and practicing them. 
不过，尽管梅希奇具有轻松学习外语的卓越能力，他还是100％身心投入于语言学习当中，并奉献出几乎所有的时间用于学习与实践。

Today, Muhamed Mešić speaks an impressive 56 different languages, from common ones like English or Portuguese, to Japanese and Georgian, and even tongues that most of us have never even heard of, like Kinyarwanda (official language of Rwanda) or Quechua (the language of the indigenous people of the central Andes of South America). 
如今，梅希奇会讲56种不同的语言，从大众语言如英语或葡萄牙语，到日语和格鲁吉亚语，甚至还有我们大多数人从来没有听说过的语言，例如卢旺达语和盖丘亚语（南美洲中部安第斯山脉的土著语）。
56 sounds like an awful lot, but Muhamed claims that the more languages you speak, the easier it is to learn new ones, because many of them have quite a lot of similarities.
56种语言听起来似乎多得吓人，但梅希奇解释道，你会说的语言越多，就越容易学习新的语言，因为其中有许多相似之处。
不管他说什么，56种语言听起来确实多得吓人啊！

看到这里你可能会说：
小萝莉是小孩子，小孩子学语言就是快，
上面这小哥又是得了轻度自闭才有这么牛X的语言天赋，
我等普通人就不要妄想能学会这么多语言了
今天英大就是要告诉你：
掌握多门语言！你也能做到！
下面这位Steve Kaufmann老先生是一名加拿大语言学家。
他会说11种语言：除母语英语外，他还会法语、汉语普通话、粤语、日语、韩语、西班牙语、德语、意大利语、葡萄牙语、瑞典语
Steve可不是小孩子，也没有得神奇的自闭症，快来听听他学习语言的秘诀吧！

英大帮大家总结了Steve提到的学习语言的7个原则
  1. brain is open to learn - make good use of it
    大脑本身就需要不断地学习 
  2. meaningful input  
    重视“有意义的输入”
  3. enlarge emotion / passion, curiosity
    帮大脑去发现
  4. learn with emotion/passion  
    带着感情去学（避免压力）
  5. motivated
    保持积极的态度
  6. open to changing/be bold in learning / open to mistakes
    不要怕变化，要敢于冒险
  7. make full ues of net resources
    （课堂效率太低）要善于利用资源
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