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UNI T1
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Practise the pronunciation of the following words from the text.
Language, widespread, Chinese, Japanese, technology, Northern Ireland, Australia, foreign, sign, knowledge, scientific, pronunciation, characteristics.
Read the international words. Say what Russian words help to define their meaning. Consult a dictionary if necessary. Pay attention to the part of speech they belong to.
Progressive, technology, commerce, business, diplomacy, geographically, official, intellectual, absolute, specialist, literature, basic, characteristic, reverse.
Read and translate the text consulting the vocabulary at the end of the unit.
There are more than 2000 languages in the world (some people say that there are up to 6000). One of the most widespread of them is English along with Chinese, Japanese, German and Arabic. Nowadays English is the language of progressive science and technology, trade and cultural relations, commerce and business. It is also the major language of diplomacy.
English is spoken by more than 350 million people. Geographically it is the most widespread language on Earth. It is the official language of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, of the United States of America, of Australia and New Zealand. English is used as one of the official languages in Canada, the Republic of South Africa and the Irish Republic. It is also spoken as a second language in many parts of India and Africa. The number of second-language speakers may soon exceed the number of native speakers.Besides, millions of people study and use English as a foreign language.
Lots of people all over the world study foreign languages and especially English. It is not only the sign of intellectual vitality. Nowadays knowledge of foreign languages becomes an absolute necessity for any good specialist who should read much of special scientific literature in foreign languages to be well informed in his / her field of knowledge. And half of the world's scientific literature is written in English.
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English is one of those languages which for many seems easy in the beginning. But it is by no means an easy language to learn. Learning English is a long and slow process. There is a problem of spelling and pronunciation, of the large number of exceptions to any rule, it is very idiomatic and prepositions are terrible. The tense system is also very complicated.
The basic characteristics of English are simplicity of form, flexibility and openness of vocabulary. The latter means that English has borrowed a lot of words (about 32,000) from other languages. For example, vendetta and caricature from Italian, words like cargo and mosquito from Spanish, kindergarten and kitsch from German, rendezvous, chef and cuisine from French, bungalow and jungle from Hindu, typhoon from Chinese, etc. But now the process is being reversed.
The students of the faculty of physical education and sport can find a lot of English words in sport terminology. The names of different games (football, baseball, volleyball, basketball, handball), sports (fitness, snowboarding, arm-wrestling, bodybuilding, windsurfing) and other terms (match, set, out, game court, knockdown) all came from English.
