Task 1 How many languages do you speak? One, maybe two, you say? Wrong! If you speak English, you use words from at least 35 foreign languages. Want proof? Read the next two sentences out loud: “Jane saw a baby squirrel outside the window. Although she was still wearing her cotton pajamas , she hurried outside to look at it.” There. You just spoke five languages----counting English! “Baby” comes from a Dutch word spelled the same way. “Squirrel” is French. “Cotton” was first an Arabic word and “pajamas” was taken right from the Urdu language of India. Surprised? You shouldn't be. Tim Morris is an English professor at the University of Texas, Arlington. He says that when we speak English, we are using bits and pieces of many languages. Doctor Morris asks his college English classes to count “loan words” ---- words we use that were taken directly from other languages. He jokes about the term “loan words”. “It seems unlikely that we're going to give these words back after we've done with them,” he says. “Imported words” might be a better term. According to studies done by Morris and others, simple English sentences may contain fifteen percent or less of these “loan words”. Complex sentences may be fifty percent or more “imports”. Scientific papers might use mostly loan words. “We use imports constantly( 不断地) ”, Morris says, “generally without any idea we are using them”.