I think noticing this gap is very important, to constantly compare your own utterance, your production, with those of native speakers.

我认为意识到这个差距很重要，要随时比较你跟英文母语人士所说出话。

And for native speakers, these changes happen automatically.

对于母语者来说，这些变化都是自动发生。

We survive on just using our mother language.

我们只用母语就可生了。

You simply cannot recognise colours that are not easily encoded in your native language.

你根本无法识别那些不容易用母语颜色。

Yes, yes. We get by. We survive on just using our mother language.

是，是。我们勉强能对付过去。我们仅靠母语就生。

Don't worry, even native English speakers make these mistakes.

别担心，即使是英语为母语人也会犯这些错误。

Native speakers of English tend to speak very fast, and at first I was just stunned and looked at them with a dazed expression on my face.

英语为母语人说话一般很快，一开始我只能惊愕地一脸茫然地看着他们。

If English is not your first language, answering job interview questions in English can add stress to the experience.

如果英语并非你母语，用英语回答求职面试问题就会平添不少压力。

It's a hard name to pronounce for non-native speakers.

对于非中文母语人来说我名字很难念。

A couple of recommendations for you are, of course, Friends, Friends can be enjoyed in any language and chances are you've seen Friends in your language so you'll understand more or less what's going on in English as well.

在这里我当然要推荐《老友记》，《老友记》有很多语言版本，如果你用你母语去看《老友记》，你或多或少可理解英文是怎样表达。

When he misses home, there are several Brazilian restaurants where he can go and speak Portuguese, his native language.

想家时候，他可去几家巴西餐厅，在那儿可讲他母语——葡萄牙语。

This is our first language, our native language.

这是我们第一语言，我们母语。

The only way you can develop an ear is to listen to the way in which native speakers of any language are speaking and begin to imitate.

训练你耳朵唯一途径就是去听任何母语人士说话方式，并且开始模仿他们。

Listen to a native speaker, listen a lot and listen some more.

尽量多地听母语者说话。

What does this mean? Well most people learning a second language sort of take the mother tongue words and the target words and go over them again and again in their mind to try and remember them. Really inefficient.

这是什么意思？大部分人学习第二外语，就是拿母语字、目标学习字然后不断重复，在心中一遍又一遍尝试把他们记住，非常没有效率。

It will make you sound more like a native speaker.

这会让你听起来更像母语者。

Because they go out there and listen to native speakers.

因为他们会来到母语者面前听他们说。

Because they go out there and listen to native speakers, if there are a whole bunch of people, who pronounce a word a certain way, that makes it a correct pronunciation.

是靠纂者去调查母语者发音，如果一大群人都用同样方式念某个单词，那个发音就成了，它正确读音。

The language divide is still evident today, as many parts of eastern Ukraine have a good knowledge of, or speak Russian as their mother tongue.

直到今天，语言鸿沟仍然十分明显，正如东乌克兰许多地方通晓俄语，或者讲俄语 ，并将其作为他们母语。

Well, this depends on your mother tongue.

这个取决于你母语。