There are about fifteen hundred languages in the world. But only a few. of them are very important. English is one of them. Many, many people use it, not in England and the USA, but also in other parts of the world. About 400, 000, 000 people speak it their own language. It is difficult (say) how many people are learning it as a foreign language.(million) of people are trying to do so. Is it easy or difficult to learn English？Different people may have different（answer）.

    The only language that seems easy to learn is the mother tongue. We should remember that we all learned our own language when we were children. If we could learn English the same way, it would not seem so difficult. Think of a small child does. He listens to what people say. He tries what he hears.

    So it is hard to say that (learn) English is easy. We must do a lot of practice. And practice needs great efforts(努力) and takes much time. Good teachers, records, tapes, books, and dictionaries will be(help) , but they cannot do the student's work for him.