4B Video Listening

he won a national competition which tested his

f... in 11 different languages.

Originally from ...,

Alex has lived in Germany, Russia, Hungary and Spain, and he has

gone on to learn more languages since he graduated.

• New York

• London

• Japan

• France

I’ve learned so many languages because I’m h... basically on

learning languages.

But when you visit a country and you don’t speak the

... language, you’re relying on other people to explain what’s

happening to you.

• English

• foreign

• local

• Japanese

All of the languages that I speak are fun. I think that’s why I’ve s...

with them and enjoy speaking them.

I think I have the, the deepest

emotional connection with ... because my grandmother was

from ...

• Greek, Greece

• Spanish, Spain

• Russian, Russia

• Chinese, China

I’m, I’m very interested in ... at the

moment. I work with someone from ..., who’s teaching me little

bits.

• Japanese, Japan

• Greek, Greece

• Russian, Russia

• Chinese, China

I always feel a little bit g... that I’m from the UK, but I’ve never

really learned any of our local languages here.

And I went to Wales recently and loved that we had everything in

... languages.

• one

• two

• three

• five

The biggest challenge for me with learning a new language was

with ... .

• Japanese

• Russian

• English

• Scottish