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Joe's Cafe, 24/7 pit stop for ESL learners and teachers | December 2007
Egg's off, bacon's off, bread's off, tea's off. English is on though.
You already speak EnglishHere are some words we use in English that are also “international words” - you see and hear them almost everywhere. So even if you are starting to learn English, you already speak it! hello football telephone, phone hotel taxi toilet museum TV pizza sandwich restaurant city hamburger video Joe | Thursday, December 13th, 2007 | Filed under Vocabulary
One Response to “You already speak English”Leave a Comment |  Personal blog of Josef Essberger, English Club founder
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3rd February 2009 at 9:41 am
Dear sirs,
I was reading about the English letters and I realized that some words are not English but come from a different language, like pizza, that is Italian, Hamburger is German (Hamburg), toilet is French (toilette), restaurant is also French (restaurer), museum is Greek (mouseion), and last, hotel is also French (hôtel). Therefore we can’t say that someone already speaks English when they are actually using foreign words to this language.