First lesson – Welcome aboard!
- So you want to improve your English, do you ? Well, you’ve come to the right place.
- But why bother learning English at all ?
- Here are a few reasons: it’s the language of business, commerce and technology.
- Politicians and diplomats from all over the world speak to each other in English.
- It is the first or second language of more than one billion people,
- and another billion or so are learning it at this very moment.
- English is also the main language of the global IT insdustry and the media.
- And it is also a major medium for publishing, adverstising and science.
- Last but not least, it has one of the world’s richest and most varied bodies of literature.
- Is this bad news for other major languages like Spanish, French, Arabic and Chinese?
- Not really. First, English is pretty illogical – there is no ham in a hamburger and no pine (or apple) in a pineapple.
- And pronunciation can be a nightmare – as you surely know!
- Sentences like « The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert »
- can drive even the hardiest learners to distraction !
- But when all’s said and done, English may be the victim of its own success.
- So many people in so many places now speak their own variety of the language
- that native speakers can find themselves at a disadvantage.
- English, like Latin before it, no longer belongs to its country of origin.
- Welcome aboard for this trip through the highways and byways of English.
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