Task 1: Read the text and complete it with the words from the box. in the Middle Ages, to learn than, a few languages, a global language, not to the nation
Universal language
Ludovic Zamenof (1859-1917) was a doctor and lived in Poland which at that time was part of Russian Empire. Zamenof’s education was very good and he spoke . A quiet and good-hearted man, Zamenof thought that people who lived in different countries of the world could not understand each other because they spoke different languages. How wonderful, he thought, if everyone could learn just one language and use it. Zamenof was thinking of the international language. Latin was such a language : all educated people could speak it. Some people have said, and still say, that people cannot invent a language. A language slowly develops when people use it. Ludovic Zamenof knew this but also knew that there must be a language that will belong but to the whole world. So in 1887, he told people about his own artificial language Esperanto.
This language was easier any real language. Even now there are people who speak and use Esperanto. But English at the beginning of the 21st century is taking its place becoming .
not to the nation
in the Middle Ages
to learn than
a global language