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近年来,在西欧学习和使用英语的人日益增加着。当西德总理施密特与法国总统德斯坦通电话时,他们使用英语。比利时的海军上将用英语向兰德斯族和瓦龙族混合部队发号施令。欧洲共同体的总理们在高级会议之后,酒余饭饱之时,用英语聊天。德国现代语协会会长、欧洲西班牙语教师协会会长法朗士·约瑟·查浦在今年七月份出版的一本小册子里提供了下列一些数字。在意大利,英语教学有增无已,现在的孩子们学英语的有百分之五十六,而学法、德语的分别占百分之四十和四。在西德,百分之九十八的孩子以英语为第一
In recent years, there has been an increase in the number of people learning and using English in Western Europe. When West German Prime Minister Schmidt telephoned France’s President Destin, they used English. Belgian admirals gave orders to the Landes and Wallonia mixed forces in English. The prime ministers of the European Community chat in English at the time of the supper and after all their food and wine is consumed. In a pamphlet published in July this year, François Joseph Chapul, president of the German Modern-Latin American Association and president of the European Association of Spanish Teachers, provided some of the figures below. In Italy, teaching English has grown. Nowadays, children learn English at 56%, while learning French and German at 40% and 4% respectively. In West Germany, 98% of children speak English first