In this video you are going to listen to and read about countries, nationalities and languages
from English vocabulary and use for upper intermediate students.
Unit 5 - Countries, nationalities and languages.
'A' - Using 'the'
Most names of countries are used without 'the', but some countries and other names have 'the' before them, for example: the United States / the US(A), the United Kingdom or the UK, the Netherlands,
the Philippines, the United Arab Emirates or the UAE, the European Union or the EU, the Commonwealth
B - Adjectives referring to people countries and languages
With ish british irish flemish polish
danish turkish spanish with ian or a n canadian brazilian latvian korean russian
australian with ese japanese chinese vietnamese portuguese maltese taiwanese with i israeli iraqi
kuwaiti pakistani yemeni bangladeshi with ic icelandic arabic slavonic
some adjectives are worth learning separately for example swiss thai greek
dutch cypriot c nationalities some nationalities and cultural identities have nouns for referring
to people for example a finn a swede a turk a spaniard a dane a briton an arab a pole
for most nationalities we can use the adjective as a noun for example a german
an italian a belgian a catalan a greek an african a european
some need woman or man or person added to them you can't say a dutch so if in doubt
use them for example a dutch man a french woman an irish person an icelandic man d world regions
the arctic scandinavia north america asia
europe the mediterranean central america the caribbean north africa the middle east
the far east east asia the pacific the atlantic south america southern africa
the indian ocean australia the antarctic antarctica regional groups and ethnic groups
people belong to ethnic groups and regional groups such as african caribbean asian latin american
north african scandinavian southern african european
arabic these can be used as countable nouns or as adjectives
many europeans enjoy traveling to the far east to experience asian cultures
arabic culture extends across a vast region of north africa and the middle east people
speak dialects as well as languages everyone has a native language or first language sometimes called
mother tongue many have second and third languages some people are expert in more than one language
and are bilingual or multilingual people who only know one language are monolingual
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