【Talk about English】 我们究竟是什么 (Episode3-5/6)
文化和语言有什么关系？本期主播Marc Beeby认为应当把语言当做是文化的基础，并且发现原来世界各地的人都是用不同的方式来描绘同一个世界的。一起来听听吧。
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Benjamin Lee Whorf
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http://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201301/201301300121218553979.mp3Now at this point you might feel like giving up! How on earth are we ever going to understand anyone from a different language background if languages are so closely related to their culture and it's so difficult to translate cultural meaning accurately? Well, don't despair. We can still communicate effectively.
What Benjamin Lee Whorf discovered about languages was very very important to how we think about language and culture today. Groups of humans perceive the world in a shared way and because of this they develop a language which shows this world view. But there are other people who believe that although languages are patterned and to reflect our own individual cultures, there's still a common core of language that's universal enough for us to understand the general meaning of what someone from another culture is trying to say. So in the end the real message to us as inter-culturalists is that we can still communicate despite linguistic and cultural differences and that being aware of these differences is an important step on the road to better communication and to becoming inter-culturally competent.
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