Вопрос № 222859 - Английский язык

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Learning a foreign language is not an easy thing. It is a long and slow process that takes a lot of time and patience. But every educated person, every good socialist has to know English because it is absolutely necessary nowadays.
It is well known that reading books and magazines in the original, watching films and talking with the native speakers helps a lot. When learning a foreign language you learn the culture and history of the country where this language is spoken.

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To know English today is absolutely necessary for every educated person, for every good specialist. Learning 1_____________ is not an easy thing. It’s a long and slow process that takes a lot of time and patience. But it’s a must.
English is taught throughout the world and a lot of 2_____________ speak it quite well. In our country English is very popular: it is studied at 3_____________ (sometimes even at nursery schools), colleges and universities.
Everyone 4______________ English soon. We all need to understand each other. To do that we need an international language, and that’s English.

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There are numerous 1_______________ about the difficulties of people travelling in foreign countries without 2_______________ of the language of that country. Here's the story of a Frenchman travelling in the United States who, while eating in a restaurant, wished to order some mushrooms. Unable to make himself 3_______________, he asked for a pencil and paper and carefully drew a picture of a mushroom. His drawing, however, was not too good, for the puzzled waiter 4_______________ in about ten minutes, not with an order of mushrooms, but with a large man's umbrella.

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There are numerous anecdotes about the difficulties of people travelling in foreign 1___________ without knowledge of the language of that country. A story concerns two Americans 2__________ in Spain. They were both unable to speak a word of Spanish and one day, while eating in a 3___________ in a small village, they were having considerable difficulty in 4__________ to the waiter what they wanted. One of them wanted a glass of milk. The waiter seemed unable to understand. Finally, on the back of the menu the man drew a picture of a cow. The poor waiter, however, still seemed puzzled. Finally he left and was gone from the restaurant for half an hour or so. He returned very pleased with himself. There were two tickets for a bullfight in his hand.

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Today it is quite 1____________ that everyone should know at least one foreign language.
Knowing one or more 2____________ languages makes it possible to get acquainted with different ways of thinking, to understand a new civilization. Learning a foreign language stimulates mental 3____________ and gives you a chance to appreciate a new literature, a different culture and to broaden your horizons. Besides, knowing foreign 4____________ has a practical value. It makes it easier to choose a profession and provides job promotion.

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Today there are a lot of 1_____________ in Europe and Asia who know several languages. A person who knows several languages is called a 2_____________. They are not few. The name of Henrich Schlimann, a famous German 3_______________ who discovered Troy is known all over the world. It took him two years to learn the first two foreign languages. Later on it took him several weeks to master another foreign language. Among polyglots there are 4_______________. Thus, Cardinal Mezzophanti who lived in the middle of the last century knew 100 languages. Professor Hesstermann from Germany knew 132 languages. The more languages man knows the easier is the way he masters a new one.