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ENGLISH AS

A GLOBAL LANGUAGE

1. How long have you been studying English? Read the following ideas

2. What language is an internationalАДone nowadays? What language should English native speakersбlearn? Read what James says about the

English language. Do you agree with him?

People say thatиEnglish people are lazy when it comes to learning languages, and that when foreigners coming to England speak English, English peopleСshould return the favour. Fair enough! I think this is true, but what language should English people learn? Europe is linguistically quite diverse, so even if everyone in England spoke fluent German as well as English, no doubt the French and Spanish would think that we were unwilling or lazy for not learning their languages.

But, no doubt it won't be long before the international language changes again. Only 100 years ago, Latin and French were important languages, 50 years ago, English and Russian, and now only English. It is only a matter of time before another language takes over the role of international languages, and at this rate it looks like it will be Mandarin! The grammar of Mandarin is quite simple. In many cases its vocabulary is too. There are no articles, no genders. Numbers are all easily constructed (55 is five ten five) and dates are as well. The only difficulties lie in the tones. But anyone could pick them up with little practice and a musical ear.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/

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3. Find the words in the text (Ex. 2) that mean:

- the act or process of acquiring knowledge or skill; - a person not native to the country;

- concerning or belonging to all or at least two or more nations; - spoken or written with ease;

- of various kinds or forms; multiform.

4. Use these words to complete the sentences:

1. India is quite ………………, both politically and religiously.

2. ………………. another language widens your cultural knowledge about the world and the people who live outside the borders of your own country. 3. I can't speak a word of French so everyone can tell I'm a

…………………….. as soon as I arrive in France.

4. I strongly disagree with Esperanto becoming an ……………………

language as it has no chance of possessing the beauty of the language because all of its expressions and rules have already been spelled out for it.

7. Read other people’s comments. Write a summary of each story. What’s your opinion? Jonathan:

English is I am told the "world language" in terms of trade and commerce and because so many people now speak it in many civilised areas of the globe it is hard not to become relaxed. However I

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am a Britishman living in Slovakia and my partner is Slovak with excellent English. I spent three years learning the Slovak language and found it really difficult but I knew I had to learn it to communicate with friends and family in Slovakia who don't speak my language. All in all you can probably get around without ever speaking a foreign language but if you want to feel at home, understand a culture and have better employment opportunities then learning the countries local language or at least knowing another major world language does help. I also don't have to rely on my partner to assist me all the time!

Martin:

You should not blame English people for not being able to speak foreign languages, because of our education system many of us only start learnИ- ing language by the age of 11yrs compared to France who start at the age of four or fiveДyears, it

is by the fault of this glitch in the education system that many English children no matter even if they want to learn language at a young age can't. Even when we do start to learn Аa foreign language there is only 3yrs of mandatory learning, which takes place for two or three lessons per week. When the learning is over,бmany forget it because they have no use for it other than to order food when on holiday because whether you like it or not the English language иis used everywhere, and often a foreign persons language skills are better than the English because they started at a very young age learningСit. If you want to blame English speakers for being lazy for not learning then you should also blame yourselves for resorting to speaking English every time an English person is trying to speak to you in your language to get what little practice they can, I have found that every time I go to France that when I speak French they speak English back and even when I persist in speaking French they continue to speak English, you can't win!

James:

We're always going on about the need to learn ‘foreign languages’ without going into which we should learn. If an English speaker knows Spanish as well as English, it will make very little difference to

his or her life. If a Spaniard knows English as well as Spanish, he or she is

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