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Contact Sitemap Downloads. Getting started. It reflects some of the features of academic language and assesses whether you are ready to begin studying or training. Jasdeep Kaur 1 month 17 days. Jessibel Sorila 2 months 2 days. Nkechi Princewill 2 months 3 days. Monjurul Hoque 6 months 23 days. Thin Thin Nwe 7 months 30 days. Khine Myat Swe 8 months 3 days. Khine Myat SWe 8 months 3 days. Ilhom 9 months 2 days.

Rafiqul Islam 1 year 1 month. Naveed Ahmad 1 year 1 month. Senthil 1 year 3 months. Md Zabed Ali 1 year 2 months. Ashfaq 1 year 3 months. It is widely estimated that it can be learned in anywhere between a quarter to a twentieth of the time required for other languages.

As a constructed language, Esperanto is not genealogically related to any ethnic language. For those of us who are not naturally predisposed to tucking languages under our belts, it is an easy language to learn. It has 5 vowels and 23 consonants. It has one simple way of conjugating all of its verbs. Words are often made from many other roots, making the number of words which one must memorise much smaller.

The language is phonetic, and the rules of pronunciation are very simple so that everyone knows how to pronounce a written word and vice-versa, and word order follows a standard, logical pattern. Through prefixing and suffixing, Esperanto makes it easy to identify words as nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, direct objects and so on, by means of easy-to-spot endings. All this makes for easy language learning. In one study, a group of European high school students studied Esperanto for one year, then French for three years, and ended up with a significantly better command of French than a control group who had studied French for all four years.

Needless to say, the language has its critics. Some point to the Eastern European features of the language as being harsh and difficult to pronounce and argue that Esperanto has an artificial feel to it, without the flow of a natural tongue, and that by nature of its artificiality, it is impossible to become emotionally involved with the language. The champions of Esperanto — Esperantists — disagree. Moreover, on an international scale, it is most useful — and fair — for neutral communication.

That means that communication through Esperanto does not give advantages to the members of any particular people or culture, but provides an ethos of equality of rights, tolerance and true internationalism. Esperantists further claim that Esperanto has the potential — was it universally taught for a year or two throughout the world — to empower ordinary people to communicate effectively worldwide on a scale that far exceeds that which is attainable today by only the most linguistically brilliant among us.

It offers the opportunity to improve communication in business, diplomacy, scholarship and other fields so that those who speak many different native languages will be able to participate fluently in international conferences and chat comfortably with each other after the formal presentations are made.

Nowadays that privilege is often restricted to native speakers of English and those who have special talents and opportunities for learning English as a foreign language. What Esperanto does offer in concrete terms is the potential of saving billions of dollars which are now being spent on translators and interpreters, billions which would be freed up to serve the purposes of governments and organisations that spend so much of their resources to change words from one language into the words of others.

Take, for example, the enormously costly conferences, meetings and documentation involved in the European Union parliamentary and administrative procedures — all funded, essentially, by taxpayers. And instead of the World Health Organisation, and all NGOs for that matter, devoting enormous sums to provide interpreters and translations, they would be able to devote those huge amounts of money to improve the health of stricken populations throughout the world.

Reading Passage 2 has seven paragraphs, A-G. Choose the correct heading for paragraphs B-G from the list of headings below. Write the correct number i-ix in boxes on your answer sheet.

Example Paragraph A Answer vii. Choose the correct letter A , B , C or D. Write your answer in box on your answer sheet.

A Its pronunciation rules follow those of most European languages. B There are no grammar rules to learn. C It can make the learning of other foreign languages less complicated. D Its verbs are not conjugated. A It is only used in artificial situations. B It requires emotional involvement. C It cannot translate works of literature. D It lacks the depth of expression. A It would eliminate the need for conferences. B More aid money would reach those who need it.

C The world population would be speaking only one language. D More funds could be made available for learning foreign languages. Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 2? YES if the statement agrees with the information.

NO if the statement contradicts the information. You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions which are based on Reading Passage 3 below. Melting land ice in the Arctic is set to cause a global rise in sea levels, leading to disastrous effects for both man and wildlife. Many species worldwide are threatened with extinction, and low-lying islands and landmasses will disappear entirely.

In other words, desertification. A decrease in the total amount of rainfall in arid and semi-arid areas could increase the total area of drylands worldwide, and thus the total amount of land potentially at risk from desertification. Desertification is officially recognised as land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas resulting from various factors including climatic variations and human activities.

This degradation of formerly productive land is a complex process. It involves multiple causes, and it proceeds at varying rates in different climates. Desertification may intensify a general climatic trend, or initiate a change in local climate, both leading towards greater aridity. The more arid conditions associated with desertification accelerate the depletion of vegetation and soils. Sign up to receive awesome content in your inbox, every week. We promise not to spam you or share your Data.

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