Conversation One
Questions 1 to 5 are based on Conversation One. Hi, Bob. You speak very good Chinese. Not really, Mary. I just know a little. Actually, not being able to speak a foreign language is a bit of a British trait or a particularly British characteristic. The British are generally considered to be lazy linguists. We just don't bother to learn another language. I guess the main reason is that when you travel around the world, you find that English is spoken almost everywhere. Yes, yes. We get by. We survive on just using our mother language. But you seem to love learning languages a lot. How many foreign languages can you speak? Not that many. A bit of German, some French, Polish a little, Chinese of course, a bit of Japanese. That's about it. I'm impressed. Well, what is the second most-spoken language in England? Is it Chinese?