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Eng oral commentary

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We have to understand a language is not simply a tool for communication with other people. A language is the longest alive history of a particular group of people. The language itself consists of the characteristics of people, times that people had to go through, and the culture people have been forming. Idiom, sayings, folk stories and poetry in a language clearly represent certain people, with unique ways of expressing and believing things, for example, "what is learned in the cradle is carried to the grave" also exists in Korean but in slightly different manner, "habits gained at three last till ages of eighty". The languages with full of history and culture are now shared worldwide, and people speaking two languages at the same time, bilinguals now commonly eixst. Being bilingual is a very fascinating challenge, yet is not easy at all. The demand of bilinguals in this world has been...

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