Reading 2 Why Don’t You Study a Foreign Language?

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In ancient Japan, people learned:

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Classic Chinese

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What’s this?

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School

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What are they doing?

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They are taking a lesson.

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Edo period samurais learned a foreign language.

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Dutch

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Historical event in Japan:

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Meiji Restoration

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Who is this?

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森鴎外 (Mori Ogai)

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Learned a foreign language at 10.

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German

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Who is this?

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夏目漱石 (Natsume Sosaki)

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Taught a foreign language in school.

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English

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People who speak one language are _____________.

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monolinguals