Soon we were able not only, to read

Soon we were able not only, to read and translate texts but to discuss their contents in English, to communicate with one another making useful statements in real-life situations. I’m not a good speaker of English yet. It takes me long to read English book in the original. Adapted and abridged books are easier for me to read. But I hope that soon I shall know English well.
One should say that English is not an easy language to learn. There is a big problem of spelling, of the large number of exceptions to any rule. This language is very idiomatic and the prepositions are difficult to remember, English is one of those languages which may seem easy in the beginning, but then the bridge between bаsiс knowledge and mastery takes a long time to cross. But if you do cross this bridge it will give you great satisfaction. You will be able to speak to people from other countries, to read foreign authors in the original, which makes your outlook wider. It is not surprising that many intellectuals and: well-educated people know many foreign languages.
I want to know foreign languages because I have always been interested in foreign countries, their cultures and peoples. I want to learn English in particular not only because it is the language of such great countries as the USA and Great Britain, but also because it has become the international language, the language of progressive science and engineering. To know English today is absolutely necessary for every educated man, for every good specialist.

THE FIRST LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD

Nobody knows what the first language was. But scientists feel sure that nobody speaks it today because all languages change and keep on changing as long as people use them. One language may change in different ways in different places and grow into several languages.
Children don't always use words exactly the way their parents do. They make small changes in the sounds or in the meaning. In time these little changes add up to big changes. If we could meet the people who spoke English five hundred years ago, we probably couldn't understand much what they said. English itself is a mixture of several languages. Scientists believe that these languages and many others all гагу out of the same language which. they call Indo-European: Nobody speaks it now. But some of its descendants are Latin, German, English, French, Greek, Russian and many of the different languages spoken
Most civilizations and cultures - in their writings, traditions, folk stories - have some traces of the old language. Only sometimes the ancients tried to learn something about the languages by experiments The Greek historian Herodotus wrote about the Egyptian king named Psammetichos. He decided to learn which of the world's languages was the oldest. For this he isolated two small children who could not of speak yet. Sooner or later they had to begin to speak, but they didn t have any language to imitate, so they would speak the most primitive of the languages, the king thought. One day the children said the word "bekos", it was similar to the Phrygian word for "bread". That was why Phrygian (a language once spoken in Asia Minor) was thought to be the first language in the world, at least by king Psammetichos.

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