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Международный день родного языка
Каждые две недели в мире исчезает один язык, унося с собой целое культурное и интеллектуальное наследие.
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One should first hear, then speak, then read, then write
One should first hear, then speak, then read, then write. To reverse the order makes the acquisition of the language more difficult, and will usually lead to the formation of habits which must later be broken. In other words, one should never speak what one has not heard, and until one has a good command of the language, being able to speak with a ( Read more... ) -
можно ли достичь совершенства в овладении иностранным языком?
In England I found two difficulties. First: I did not understand people, and secondly: they did not understand me. In the first week I picked up a tolerable working knowledge of the language and the next seven years completely convinced me that I would never know it really well, let alone perfectly.
From How to Be an Alien by George Mikes
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SAXON TONGUE
The Saxons settling over all England, maintained an uniform Language, onely diversified in Dialect, Idioms, and minor differences, according to their different Nations which came in to the common Conquest, which may yet be a cause of the variation in the speech and words of several parts of England, where different Nations most abode or settled, ( Read more... ) -
Навстречу учебному году
Одноклассники
В дневной школе я учился только восемь лет. После окончания школы продолжал поддерживать отношения только с одним хулиганом, с которым учился в одном классе. Возможно потому, что жили в соседних дворах. Во время учёбы меня больше тянуло к хулиганам, чем к отличникам, которые были скучны своим зубрильством. Всех отличников в восьмом ( Read more... ) -
The languages I tried to learn and the languages I’ll never learn
My sister is three years my senior. When she began to learn English, I was doing my second year in the elementary school. I took her textbook of English and read the first sentence on the first page: “In English there are 24 letters and 44 sounds.” I was perplexed. Why this difference? Is not a letter the same as a sound? I don’t remember why I ( Read more... )