Page 60 - @ccess 1 Reader´s Book
P. 60

SPEAKING WELL MAKES THE WORLD GO´ROUND                           assortment
                                                                  (n.): variedad


                  8.  Babies articulate a wide assortment of sounds
                     in their first y ar. When they’re about one year
                     old, their first understandable wo ds are spoken;
                     complex sentences begin to be formed at about
                     three years of age; by the time they’re five  children
                     know several thousand words.
                  9.  The language one is most familiar with and uses
                     most is their mother’s language. There are people
                     who speak two languages equally well, they are
                     called 'perfect bilinguals’. In general, bilinguals don’t
                     speak both of their languages with the same fluenc .
                  10. There are many benefits to being bilingual: l arning
                     other languages is much easier, thinking processes
                     become enhanced, and it promotes having contact
                     with other people and their culture.
                  11. There are economic advantages to being bilingual
                     or multilingual as well: people who speak several
                     languages are offered jobs over those that don’t,
                     and monolingual companies don’t have the same
                     competitive edge that multilingual companies do.
                  12. Much like family members, languages are related to
                     each other. Almost all European languages are part
                     of the Indo-European family.
                  13. Germanic, Romance and Slavic are the three groups
                     most European languages belong to.





















                                                           Reader's Book     59
   55   56   57   58   59   60   61   62   63   64   65