Text 6 Learning a Foreign Language

1. The most difficult thing for people who want to learn a foreign language is that the foreign language is very different from their own. It’s not at all like the language we have been speaking since before we can remember. Our native language has a powerful influence on us and under such circumstances it is natural that we have the feeling that our language is the most beautiful, the most perfect and the most logic.

2. The first thing that we must learn as we begin to study a foreign language is that each language is the best possible language for the people who use it. We cannot expect a person from India to think and act exactly like a person from France as well as we cannot expect the language of India to be exactly like French. Thus many of the problems in language learning will disappear if we understand this fact.

3. There are other attitudes which it’s necessary to develop in order to make progress in language learning. The most important of these is that any foreign language requires constant practice. You can never be sure that you really know how to use a word or a phrase only because you have seen or heard it for several times. You must be ready to repeat new words again and again until you really use them automatically without having to think about them. At the same time one should remember that learning a language is much more than just memorizing long vocabulary lists and such aspects as pronunciation and grammar must paid more attention, especially, in the early stages. It’s impossible to enrich vocabulary if you don’t know how to use the grammatical structures as to learn words without knowing how to use them in speech is something like to build a house without a plan.

4. So if you want to learn to speak well, if you want to master it, keep working steadily, do your best and work hard at all the aspects of the language, practise the language using it at every opportunity and what is extremely important – have patience. The proverb says ‘No pains, no gains’.

Questions:

1) Why is it difficult for people to learn a foreign language?

2) What thing must we learn as we begin to study a foreign language?

3) Which attitude is the most important in language learning?

4) What aspects must one pay more attention?

5) Is it possible master foreign language without having patience?

4 Семестр Грамматический материал

1) Модальные глаголы с перфектной формой смыслового глагола и особенности перевода их на русский язык.

2) Неличные формы глагола: Infinitive, Gerund, Participles l, ll (сложные формы). Независимый (самостоятельный) причастный оборот и его перевод на русский язык. Основные функции инфинитива в предложении. Инфинитив в функции определения.

3) Простая и сложная формы герундия. Герундиальный оборот и особенности его перевода на русский язык.

4) Инфинитив в составе сложного дополнения (объектный инфинитивный оборот). Инфинитив в составе сложного подлежащего (субъектный инфинитивный оборот) и особенности перевода подобных конструкций на русский язык.