高中英語 Unit 19 Language 背景知识拓展 北师大版选修7.docVIP

Unit 19 Language USA Language What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual. What do you call someone who speaks two languages? Bilingual. What do you call someone who speaks one language? An American. To people in many countries, being bilingual or even trilingual is a way of life. But since the mother tongue of most Americans is English—a language widely spoken around the world—they often dont feel the need to learn a foreign language. Moreover, people who live in the heartland of America have little contact with other linguistic groups, making foreign language skills irr