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Is learning a foreign language ever easy? Yes. If you are five and move to another country, you will
quickly pick up the language. But what about for the rest of us who are no longer five, and need to be
polite when traveling for business or for pleasure? I think that answer is also yes. Language learning can
be easy if you don't want or need to learn too much.
The key to successful language learning in my mind is not to set the goal too high. It is rather like
running. Even if you run twice a week, you don't necessarily want to be able to run a marathon. You
might just want to maintain a level of fitness. I think the same can be true for language learning.
Let's get back to the goal. If you decide to learn ten words in a foreign language before visiting the
country, you know that you will manage to do this. However, if you decide to attain conversational
fluency, unless you are an exceptionally talented individual, you will probably fail and give up in disgust.
It is also far easier to start learning a foreign language than to finish. In other words, the better you
are, the slower it can be to improve, because you will get stuck with grammar, making sentences,
learning less common words, etc. If you are only trying to learn a few foreign words and phrases, you
will enjoy faster progress, have more fun, and won't have to spend too much time.
The idea of learning only a few hundred words in a language, and then stopping, isn't the usual
approach to language learning, but it can be a very rewarding and entertaining activity.
1. In the writer's opinion, it is easy for adults to learn English if _____. [ ]
A. they are especially talented individuals
B. they don't want or need to learn too much
C. they have to spend a lot of time on it
D. they have a chance to go abroad
2. The writer intends to express that learning only a few hundred words in a language, and then
stopping, _____. [ ]
A. is the usual method of learning a language
B. is of no use for learning a language
C. may cause a lot of mistakes while traveling
D. can be rewarding and entertaining
3. The writer believes that if you want to be good at a foreign language, you will probably _____. [ ]
A. forget your own goals
B. become a gifted language learner
C. get tired of learning it
D. reach your learning goal in advance
4. The best title of this passage would be _____. [ ]
A. Easy Language Learning
B. Hard Language Learning
C. Fluency in a Foreign Language
D. A Method of Language Learning