Inglés para viajar II: 21/12/2017
Hoy leeremos el capítulo octavo de How to be an Alien : Chapter 8 The Language When I arrived in England I thought that I knew English. After I’d been here an hour I realized I did not understand one word. In my first week I learned a little of the language, but after seven years I knew that I could never use it really well. This is sad, but nobody speaks English perfectly. Remember that those five hundred words the ordinary Englishman uses-most are not all the words in the language. You can learn another five hundred and another five thousand and another fifty thousand words after that and you will still find another fifty thousand you have never heard of. Nobody has heard of them. If you live in England for a long time you will be very surprised to find that the word nice is not the only adjective in the English language. For the first three years you do not need to learn or use any other adjectives. You can say that the weather is nice, a restaurant is ni...