Вопрос № 780998 - Английский язык

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People all over the world speak almost 3,000 1_____________. Some languages are spoken by millions of 2_____________, others by only hundreds of them. The most wide-spread language in the world is Chinese. 350 million people 3_____________ English as their first language. About the same number use it as a second language. Russian is also one of the most prevalent, 4______________ ad rich languages in the world. 240 million people speak Russian nowadays.

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English is spoken practically all over the 1____________. It is spoken as the 2_____________ tongue in Great Britain, the United States of America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. A lot of people 3____________ English in China, Japan, India, Africa and other countries. It is one of 6 official languages of the United Nations. It is studied as a foreign 4_____________ in many schools.

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To state the significance of this or that 1____________ one must take into consideration not only its prevalence but the quality of printed production. For instance, the largest number of 2_____________ is published in Russian including technical literature. The greatest number of press production 3______________ in English. As far as books are concerned, the largest number of them is translated from English, 4______________, French and German accordingly.

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The knowledge of other 1_____________ is very useful, especially if you have to work abroad or if you must 2_____________ foreign literature in the original. If you know the language of a foreign 3_____________, you can talk to its people and understand what they are speaking about without anybody’s help. The knowledge of foreign languages also helps young people of 4______________ countries to develop friendship.

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As for me, I am learning English, because in the recent years it has become not only an 1_____________ language, it is now a number one language in the 2_____________. Besides, English is becoming a lingua franca. It is used a great deal by businessmen from different 3____________, which don’t have a common language, in order to do business. It is already a lingua franca at international conferences. Besides, every person who 4______________ in Europe, Asia or Africa, even in the South America gets around by using English. So English is becoming more and more the language for practical use.

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The modern world is becoming smaller all the time. Every day the distances between different 1_____________ seem less. For this reason it’s becoming more and more important 2_____________ different languages, especially English.
One billion people speak English today. That’s about 20% of the world’s population.
400 million people speak 3______________ as their first language. For the other 600 million people it’s either a second language or a 4______________ language.