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This document provides several reasons for learning English, including that it is the language of business, politics, technology, and media globally. Over a billion people speak English as a first or second language. Additionally, English has a rich literary tradition. While some argue this threatens other major languages, English has also become difficult to define with a single country of origin as it is spoken in many variations worldwide. The document introduces an English learning lesson that will cover the ins and outs of the language.

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l001 Lesson

This document provides several reasons for learning English, including that it is the language of business, politics, technology, and media globally. Over a billion people speak English as a first or second language. Additionally, English has a rich literary tradition. While some argue this threatens other major languages, English has also become difficult to define with a single country of origin as it is spoken in many variations worldwide. The document introduces an English learning lesson that will cover the ins and outs of the language.

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N1 : First lesson

S00-TITLE : Welcome aboard!


S01 : So you want to improve your English, do you? Well, you've come to the right
place.
S02 : But why bother learning English at all?
S03 : Here are a few reasons: it's the language of business, commerce and
technology.
S04 : Politicians and diplomats from all over the world speak to each other in
English.
S05 : It is the first or second language of more than one billion people,
S06 : and another billion or so are learning it at this very moment.
S07 : English is also the main language of the global IT industry and the media.
S08 : And it is also a major medium for publishing, advertising and science.
S09 : Last but not least, it has one of the world's richest and most varied bodies
of literature.
S10 : Is this bad news for other major languages like Spanish, French, Arabic and
Chinese?
S11 : Not really. First, English is pretty illogical - there is no ham in a
hamburger and no pine (or apple) in a pineapple.
S12 : And pronunciation can be a nightmare - as you surely know!
S13 : Sentences like "The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert"
S14 : can drive even the hardiest learners to distraction.
S15 : But when all's said and done, English may be the victim of its own success.
S16 : So many people in so many places now speak their own variety of the language
S17 : that native speakers can find themselves at a disadvantage.
S18 : English, like Latin before it, no longer belongs to its country of origin.
S19 : Welcome aboard for this trip through the highways and byways of English.
T00-TRANSLATE : Exercise: Translate
T01 : Why bother buying a lottery ticket? We'll never win.
T02 : The very thought of leaving London makes me sad.
T03 : The publishing industry is booming at the moment.
T04 : Jack Kerouac travelled the highways and byways of America in the 1950s.
T05 : Last but not least, the soldiers decided to desert their dessert in the
desert.

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