Topic 21: Learning languages What languages do you speak?
Do you think it’s important to learn a foreign language?
What languages are spoken in your country?
Would you like to learn another language in the future?
(see vocabulary for Topic 9: learning English)
Nouns Native tongue
Dialect
Verbal communication
Verbs Be fluent in
Converse
Chat
Adjectives Understandable
Unintelligible
Meaningless
Idioms Have a chinwag (= have a conversation)
When I travelled to France, I tried to have a chinwag with the locals.
All Greek (= a language that one doesn’t understand)
When I went to Korea, I tried to converse with some people but the
native tongue was all Greek to me.
