I have a Dutch friend who speaks English (0) BEAUTIFULLY. I have always wondered how the Dutch manage to learn languages so (1) … . SUCCESSFULLY. The Dutch, like the Germans, often speak English (2) … BETTER than some native speakers or at least they seem to speak the language more (3) … CORRECTLY than some English people. If you want to speak English (4) … FLUENTLY with a reasonable accent, you should listen to tapes as frequently as possible. There are no magic solutions but you (5) … SIMPLY have to work hard at the new language.
1. When he called me home, my parents told me that I had left. 2. She wanted to visit the city, where she spent her childhood. 3. When I looked out the window, I saw that the sun shines brightly in the sky, and rain stopped. 4. When we arrived at the station, we learned that the train had left. 5. She reached his home very late, because she wandered about in the dark. 6. My girlfriend felt bad because got sunstroke. 7. Students wrote an essay on summer vacation, which they spent on the coast. 8. When he was young, he participated in football matches. 9. She complained that nobody helped her to accomplish this task. 10. When she did report it did not look in their records.
