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Mastering languages
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Starting off
1 Work in pairs. Read the following remarks and write 2 05 Check your answers by listening to the
a word or phrase from the box in each gap. speakers.
a bit rusty accurately aims an excellent command 3 Work in pairs. Which of the speakers’ opinions do
bilingual fashionable loanwords fl uency you agree with? Which do you disagree with? Why?
highly articulate mother tongue pick up switch
People tend to be (1) Lots of are coming
– they speak the regional and the national into the language, particularly from English,
language and they (2) so my is not at all the
between languages with ease. same as it was, say, fi fty years ago.
My English has got Living in the country, you just I aim to achieve (7)
(5) (6) the of English, which means becoming
because I don’t use it very language naturally and that’s just (8) and being able to
often. about the best way to learn it. use the language (9) .
I wouldn’t consider accuracy to be as We should be teaching young people
important as (10) how they can use language effectively to
when learning a foreign language. achieve their (11) .
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