【词汇大师】加州记忆(1/2)

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眺望美洲大陆的一角，加州以其迷人的身姿吸引着我们。但是你有没有想过，在哥伦布发现片大陆之前，加州的印第安人说着古老的语言，讲述着部落的传奇。
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本篇听写主持人讲述的故事，最后有一句嘉宾的话，都是需要听写的内容。PS，全篇没有“”。
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California
Native American
Elem
PomoMore than half of the over one hundred native California tongues have disappeared. Many others have only a few, aging speakers. When this last fluent generation dies, languages spoken by Californians over centuries, will also die.
At a recent gathering of some 200 Native Americans struggling to maintain their dialects, Robert Geary remembered driving in his car, listening to a tape of his long-deceased great uncle speaking the native Elem Pomo language.
I was listening to this recording and I was so lost hearing my language that I was doing 80 and I didn't even know it. I got a ticket, yeah, I got a ticket. Robert decided he had to learn his ancestor's language.