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There are about fifteen hundred languages in the world. But  1  a few of them are very 2 .English is one of these. Many, many people use it, not only in England and the U.S.A., but in other parts of the world. About 200,000,000 speak it as their own language. It is difficult to say how many people are learning it as a  3  language. Many millions are  4  to do so.     Is it easy or difficult to learn English? Different people may have different  5 . Have you ever  6  ads( 广告) of this kind in the newspapers or magazines? "Learn English in six weeks, or your  7 back..." "Easy and funny! Our records and tapes  8  you master your English in a month.  9   the first day your  10 will be excellent. Just send ... "  Of course, it never  11  quite like this.
The only language that seems easy to learn is the mother tongue. We should  12  that we all learned our own language well when we were 13 . If we could learn English in the same  way, it would not seem so difficult.  14   what a small child  does. He listens to what people say. He tries what he hears. When he is using the language, talking in it, 15 in it all  the time. Just imagine how much  6  that gets!
So it is   17  to say that learning English is easy, because a good command of English  18  upon a lot of practice. And practice needs great effort and  19  much time. Good teachers, records, tapes, books, and dictionaries will 20  . But they cannot do the student's work for him.

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