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 Zamenhof (1859-1917) was a doctor and lived in Poland which at that time was part of Russian Empire. Zamenhof’s education was very good and he spoke _____________________. A quiet and good-hearted man, Zamenhof 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. Zamenhof 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 Zamenhof 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 ________________________.

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