Common Language
A theoretical and pedagogical framework that helps learners understand how languages construct meaning differently before they enter a new language system.
一种理论与教学框架，帮助学习者在进入新的语言系统之前，理解不同语言如何以不同方式构造意义。
The Access Route语言进入路径
What is Common Language?什么是 Common Language？
Not a universal language不是世界语
Common Language is not Esperanto, not English as a global lingua franca, and not a simplified language system.
Common Language 不是世界语，不是英语作为国际通用语，也不是一种简化语言。
A language access framework语言进入框架
It identifies the common constructive tasks shared by human languages and explains how learners enter different language access systems.
它识别人类语言共同承担的构造任务，并解释学习者如何进入不同语言的形式系统。
Language learning begins with access.外语学习首先是进入系统。
Most language learning begins with content: words, grammar, dialogues, readings, exercises, and tests. Common Language begins with a different question: how does the learner enter the target language system?
大多数外语学习从内容开始：单词、语法、对话、阅读、练习和考试。Common Language 从另一个问题开始：学习者如何进入目标语言系统？
To learn a foreign language consciously is to understand the access route into that language.
有意识地学习外语，就是理解进入这门语言的路径。