50 Read the text. Answer the question given in the title.
How many languages can a person know?
You know, of course, some people who speak more than one language. We must not think that only great people can learn many foreign languages.
In modern times, when science and technical knowledge are progressing so fast, all kinds of specialists need foreign languages in their work — teachers and doctors, politicians and actors, engineers and businessmen, and people of many other professions.
If a person doesn’t know foreign languages, if he or she must wait for translations, he can’t hope to know all the news in his field. If he can’t use a computer, read the texts in English on the Internet and communicate with his partners by computer, he can hardly hope to be up to date in his work.
Very soon he will be months and even years behind the times.
“But,” you will say, “how can I hope to learn so much? I have enough difficulty learning one language. ”
The answer is that when we have learned one foreign language, learning a second foreign language is much easier. Learning a third foreign language is much easier than learning the second, and so on.
There are many people all over the world who have discovered this secret. They know that success in foreign language learning is connected not only with a person’s natural talent. You must work hard to learn your first foreign language. After the first, other languages are a much easier task.
51 Decide whether the following sentence are true (T) or false (F).
1. Great people are the only ones who can learn many foreign languages.
2. All kinds of specialists need foreign languages in their work.
3. If a person only speaks his mother tongue, hell know all the news in his field.
4. To be up to date in the work a person should read texts in Esperanto on the Internet.
5. Learning a third foreign language is easier than learning a first foreign language.
6. You must work hard to learn your first foreign language.
52 Translate the word combinations. Use them in your own sentences.
53 Listen, read and remember.
language
beginning
kingdom
English
meeting
sing
learning
speaking
long
among
singers
ringing
finger
great
progress
guess
magazine
grown ups
against
foreign
knife
enough
knight
sign
know
language
engineer
knowledge
German
badge
advantage
change
large
January
jeans
July
vegetables
legend
bridge
magic