23 .Read the dialanterested list speaking Countries" and say why Helen is much interested in the English language.
ENGLISH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES
Diana: Hi, Helen! Haven't seen you for ages! How've you been?
Helen: Just fine, thanks, and you? It's been a long time since I saw
Diana: Right, it has. I last saw you in the library. You were prepar-
ing for the talk' on your favourite subject English, of course.
Helen: True. But why are you laughing? I think English is the most
popular language nowadays. People all over the world speak Eng.
lish. In Russia and France, in Germany and Italy, in Spain and
Egypt people learn English as a foreign language.
Diana: I know they do. By the way, they say, that English has be-
come the most important international language of nowadays.?
Helen: Oh, yes, it certainly has. People will understand you practi-
cally everywhere if you speak English. In most of the countries
people speak English and their native language of course.
Diana: And in what countries do people use English as their native
Helen: In Great Britain, the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zea-
land. These are English-speaking countries.
Diana: So in all these countries people speak the same language,
don't they?
Helen: My answer is "yes" and "no". Though they all speak English,
yet it is a little different in each of these countries.
Diana:
ana: You don't say so! I never knew that Americans and the Eng-
lish speak different languages.
Helen: Oh, no! They don't. They speak English in both countries, but
people speak American English in the USA and ritish English in
Great Britain. Different words often name the same things.
Diana: What do you mean?
Helen: I mean that people live in flats in England but they live in
apartments in America. They eat cookies and candies in the USA,
but biscuits and sweets in Great Britain. Children go to school in
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