大学英语精读听力预备级 less1

[00:00.00]College English  Intensive Reading  Bub-Band book 1
[01:00.71]Lesson 1 text Is Learning Dnglish Easy or Not?
[01:08.08]There are about fifteen hundred languages in the world.
[01:13.43]But only a few of them are very important.
[01:18.18]English is one of these.
[01:21.42]Many,many people use it,not only in England and the U.S.A.,
[01:27.30]but also in other parts of the world.
[01:31.56]About 200 000 000 speak it as their own language.
[01:37.20]It is difficult to say how many people are learning it as a foreign language.
[01:43.58]Many millions are trying to do so.
[01:47.94]  Is it easy or difficult to learn English?
[01:52.59]Different people may hae different answers.
[01:56.72]Have you ever noticed ads of this kind in the newspapers or magazines?
[02:02.78]"learn English in six weeks,or your money back..."
[02:07.63]"Easy and fun!Our records and tapes help you master your English in a month.
[02:14.90]From the first day your pronunciation will be excellent.Just send..
[02:21.14]"Of course,it never happens quite like that.
[02:25.79]   The only language that seems easy to learn is the mother tongue.
[02:31.43]We should remember that we all learned our own language well when we were children.
[02:38.20]If we could learn English in the same way,it would not seem so difficult.
[02:44.44]Think of what a samll child does.
[02:48.57]He listens to what people say. He tries what he hears.
[02:54.45]When he wants something,he has to ask for it.
[02:59.12]He is using the language,talking in it,thinking in it all the time.
[03:06.57]Just imagine how much practice that gets.
[03:11.11]  So it is hard to say that learning English is easy,
[03:16.26]because a good command of English depends upon a lot of practice.
[03:22.63]And prctice needs great effort and takes much time.
[03:27.96]Good teachers,records,tapes,books.and dictionaries will help.
[03:34.20]But they cannot do the student's work for him.