Tham khảo tài liệu 'english skills - through pictures (phần 2) part 15', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Talking with someone is saying things to him hearing what he says and taking in his meaning. People can talk together only when they _ _. have a language in common. i i When you were very young 1 L your parents talked to you and after a time you saw what they meant and learned to talk to them. A baby s first words are commonly names for its parents. Some children learn to talk earlier than others. We go on learning our language all our lives. Some people talk more than they think and some people think more than they talk. Most of our thinking is done through language. parent father or mother. commonly most times. It is common for babies to say names for their porents first. Babies have this in common. think have thoughts use the mind have Ideas. will think think s thought 338 There are more than 2600 million people on the earth and about 2500 languages. Of these languages only about twelve are used by more than 50 million people. Here are the names of some languages which have very wide use Chinese Mandarin and Cantonese English French German Hindi Japanese Russian and Spanish. All these languages have more people talking them today than ever before. A hundred and fifty years ago there were only about twenty million people who talked English for example. Now there are at least two hundred and fifty million and there may be many many more. at laa t that numbar or more. . 12 339 More people will learn more languages as better ways of teaching them are worked out This book English Through Pictures 2 is itseK part of an attempt to teach English better. We need better books to learn from and better records of good voices to teach us how to listen to the sentences of a language and say them. Recordings of sounds are made on disks and on tapes. listen attempt to hoar. attempt make an attempt. record records when played on a machine let at hear again the sounds recorded on them. oontenco a thought put In words. A written sentence starts with a large capital letter and ends
