Unit 18: Studying a foreign language
Americans are not required to study a foreign language in junior high or high school. However, many universities will not accept applicants unless they have studied another language for two or more years. That encourages the majority of high school students to study a foreign language. The most popular languages to study are Spanish, French and German.
Most high schools and universities conduct language classes almost entirely in the foreign language. The teachers speak very little English in class, and the textbooks contain little or no English.
Vocabulary:
Commitment
Communicate
Complain
Composition
Confusing
Conversation
Create
Culture
Definition
Dialogue
Dictionary
Diligent
Drill
Exercise
Focus
Free time
Frustrating
Give up
Grammar
Group class
Group work
Idiom
Independent
Internet
Listening comprehension
Literature
Make a mistake
Make excuses
Memorize
Method
Mother tongue
Motivated
Multi-media
Natural
One-on-one class
Original
Pair work
Persevere
Play
Poetry
Presentation
Push
Radio
Recommend
Remember
Required
Research
Responsibility
Role ply
Rote method
Rule
Slang
Speech
Strategy
Textbook
Thesaurus
Translation
Tutor
Vocabulary
Writing
