应该正常，英语法语姊妹语言，英国历史上被法国统治过。两个语言互通的地方太多了。
建个英语角，一起学英语吧？
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应该正常，英语法语姊妹语言，英国历史上被法国统治过。两个语言互通的地方太多了。
哈哈，现在想想那种教材真是absurd啊，好在您会另辟蹊径。想想它耽误了多少人的英语学习！还以为天底下都这么学英语呢！
更早的是《跟我学 follow me》
说是英语单词有三分之一来源于法语
Just found this interesting article. I posted part of it. If interested, you can find the full print here:
Pig or Pork? Cow or Beef?
Pig or Pork? Cow or Beef? Now, Words and Their Stories from VOA Learning English. On this program we often talk about the origins of words and expressions that we use in American English. We also talk about how we use them in everyday conversations. Today we talk about animals--and...
learningenglish.voanews.com
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Pig or Pork? Cow or Beef?
Now, Words and Their Stories from VOA Learning English.
On this program we often talk about the origins of words and expressions that we use in American English. We also talk about how we use them in everyday conversations.
Today we talk about animals--and animals we eat. In English, these two categories often have different names. Pigs turn into pork. Cows turn into beef. Sheep is mutton. Calves are veal. And deer is venison.
But why do we call these animals different names when we prepare them for a meal? Why is it “pig” on the farm but "pork" in a sandwich?
The answer is the Norman Conquest of Britain in 1066. That is when many French words became part of the English language. Many of those French words related to the battlefield, such as “army” and “royal.” Many related to government and taxation.
And many others related to food.
When animals were in the stable or on the farm, they kept their Old English names: pig, cow, sheep and calf. But when they were cooked and brought to the table, an English version of the French word was used: pork (porc), beef (beouf), mutton (mouton) and veal (veau).
On several websites, word experts claim that this change shows a class difference between the Anglo-Saxons and the French in Britain at the time of the conquest.
Because the lower-class Anglo-Saxons were the hunters, they used the Old English names for animals. But the upper-class French saw these animals only at mealtimes. So, they used the French word to describe the prepared dishes. Today, modern English speakers — regardless of social class — have come to use both.
Got to go. Feel free to share your English learning experience and study materials. Anything goes! Just, anything! See you!
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me Chinese speak
I would write: "A friend recommended me to listen Enya's songs." or " I was recommended by a friend listening Enya's songs."
oh，neglect songs after enya.ths for your kind reminding
........but then it occurred to me that I am afraid that people might not be interest in it if write in English only,......
I thought you speak French too.
What I mean is that "recommend" is "recommend to do something, recommend someone to do something, or recommend something to someone". But can't recommend someone to someone.
For instance a waiter recommended a meal or drink to customer.
un peu la
at least understand the phone calls from my kid's school that said my kid was sick...
楼主的英文很正
我还要加一个客家话
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