VOCABULARY language - język native language - język ojczysty to understand - rozumieć to speak - mówić, władać językiem everyday life - życie codziennemain - główny a little bit of - trochę to learn - uczyć się parents - rodzice to be fluent in… - płynnie mówić po… one and only - jeden jedyny

LESSON 21
Let's communicate: speaking

Mr WORD: What languages do you speak?

Amber : English is my native language but I also understand Spanish and French quite well.

Vi : My native language is Vietnamese but, because of my work, I speak English most of the time.

Rahul: In everyday life I speak English as my main language. I can speak a little bit of Hindi and Kannada, which are two Indian languages which I learnt from my parents.

Nagwar: I speak three languages - and a bit. I speak Arabic, English, French and a little bit of German. Arabic is my main language and so is English.

Tristan: Well, I speak German, which is my native language. I’m also fluent in English and I also know a bit of Spanish.

Kerry: Well, I speak American English, that’s my one and only fluent language at the moment.

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	Lesson 21

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OBJAŚNIENIA

native language = mother tongue - język ojczysty
first language – pierwszy język (język ojczysty)
foreign language – język obcy

you can speak a foreign language:
very well
well
quite well
a little, a bit

you can be very fluent in a foreign language (możesz płynnie mówić w obcym
języku)

you can be perfectly bilingual (if you listen to our lessons, that is!)

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