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 談論台灣在地語言 Chatting about language
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 Matthew: I heard that you speak a bit of Spanish.
Denise: Yeah, that's right. I used to live in southern California, and there are a lot of Spanish-speaking people from Latin America there.
Matthew: That's cool. Do you think you could teach me?
Denise: I guess so, and maybe you can teach me Chinese.
Matthew: That sounds good.
Denise: How many languages can you speak?
Matthew: Good question. I suppose my English is OK, then there's Mandarin, obviously. I also speak Amis, the language of my indigenous tribe.
Denise: Wow! Do all indigenous people speak their tribal languages?
Matthew: No. Quite a few of my Amis friends don't speak the language, but I think it's important to keep the culture alive.
Denise: How about Taiwanese, do you speak that as well?
Matthew: I know a little, but I'm not very good at it.
Denise: That's incredible. You already speak four languages and you want to learn another.
Matthew: Ha ha. I guess I just love talking.
馬修：我聽到妳講西班牙文。
狄妮絲：是啊，我之前住在加州南部，那邊有很多來自拉丁美洲會講西班牙文的人。
馬修：好酷喔，那妳可以教我嗎？
狄妮絲：可以呀，或許你也可以教我中文。
馬修：聽起來不錯喔。
狄妮絲：你會說幾種語言?
馬修：好問題。我覺得我的英文還好，另外，當然就是中文。我還會講阿美族語，這是我原住民部族的語言。
狄妮：哇！每個原住民都會講他們的族語嗎？
馬修：沒有。我有一些阿美族的朋友就不會講阿美族語，但我認為保存這個文化很重要。
狄妮絲：那台語呢？你也會嗎？
馬修：我懂一點，但並不流利。
狄妮絲：太令人驚訝了。你已經會四種語言了，而你居然還想再學其他的。
馬修：哈，我想我只是愛講話而已。
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