Read the text and at the chart. Are these sentences ture or flase? Correct the flase sentences.
1. The word for most people's language is the same as the word for their country.
2 English is spoken in some countries which were British colonies.
3 Portuguese is the language spoken in most Lain American countries
4 A large number of people outside China speak Mandarin
Generaly, the word for the languge you speak is the same sa the word for your nationality. For example, Polish people speak Polish,French people speak French, and Greek people speak Greek.
This is not true for everyone, however. What language do most people from South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and the USA speak? Is's English- because at one times these countries were British colonies.
People speak Spanish in all the countries of Lantian America except Brazil, which is why Spanish is one of the most common languages in the world.
Brazil was Portuauese colony, and so Brazilians speak Portuguese.
There's simple reason why so many people speak Mandarin and Hindi. It's because the populations of china and India are so large. Not many people in other countries speak these languages, however.
1 false
2 true
3 false
4 false