Before the English teachers all ask one question, let us answer it

在英语教师提出同一个问题之前，让我们来回答它

There is no evidence that having 1500 words is ideal, except for one thing: It’s easier to learn 1500 words than 1800 or 2000 words. And with fewer than 1000 words you won’t have some very common words when you need them. Also, you can learn spelling and pronunciation of each individual word. That way you won’t have to worry about a lot of spelling and pronunciation rules. (You probably already know that English doesn’t do well with its spelling and pronunciation rules.)

没有证据能够证明掌握1500个单词是最理想的，除了一件事情：学习1500个单词要比学习1800个或2000个单词要更容易。但词汇量少于1000的话，一些你需要的常用词将会不在其中。而且你还可以学习各个单词的拼写和发音。那样你就不需要担心大量的拼写和发音规则。（或许你已经知道英语的拼写和发音规则很复杂。）

These 1,500 words come from several lists of most-commonly used English words. It is very much like the 1500 words used by Voice of America, but it has fewer political words. It is very much like basic Technical English used in international training books but without all of words for measurements. In fact, there are many lists of the "most common" 1500 words, and they all vary a lot in the last 200 words, depending on who is selecting.   So this is ours.

这1500个单词来自数个最常用英语词汇表。它与美国之音所用的1500个单词非常相像，但政治词汇要少得多。它与国际培训书籍中使用的基本技术英语非常相似，但没有任何量度单位词汇。事实上，有很多词汇表包含“最常用的”1500个单词，但由于挑选单词的人不同，最后的200单词差异很大。以下是我们的版本。

When you learn a Globish word, you will not need to learn spelling rules or pronunciation rules. You will need to think of only that word. You should learn its individual pronunciation and how its individual spelling looks to you.

当学习一个全球语单词的时候，你不需要学习拼写或发音规则。你所要想的就只是那个词。你应该学习它单独的发音以及在你看来它是如何拼写的。

If you attempt to sound out every word from the English spelling you will be sorry. English writing has a very loose relationship with its sounds. But please…you must do everything to learn the stressed syllables in the Globish words. If you will say that stressed syllable in a heavy tone, most people can understand the rest.

如果你企图通过拼写来读出每个英语单词，那么你会后悔的。因为英语的书写与其发音之间的联系非常松散。但是请你必须尽你所能的学习全球语单词的重读音节。如果你用加强的语气读出一个词重读音节，那么大多数人都能理解剩余部分了。

One key sound that is more important to Globish – and English – than any other is the “schwa” sound. The schwa is almost not a sound. It usually “fills in” in words of more than one syllable, as a way of moving quickly over unstressed syllables. The schwa also makes trying to spell using sound very difficult.

对于全球语和英语来说，有个比其他任何发音更重要的关键音就是“中元音”。中元音几乎不是发音。它通常是对多音节单词进行“补充”，并作为一种快速读过非重读音节的方法。中元音也使得试图通过读音来拼写一个词语变得非常困难。

All of these letters and letter-combinations will sound the same when an English speaker or a good Globish speaker says them. Using the schwa on the unstressed syllable is the most important thing about Globish (or English) pronunciation – and spelling – that you can know, because it makes everything else so much easier.

当一个英语母语人士或全球语说得好的人读所有这些字母和字母组合时，发音会基本相同。对于全球语（或英语）的发音和拼写来说，使用中元音读出非重读音节是最重要的，到时你就会知道了，因为这会使其他所有事情变得如此轻松。