You must work hard to acquire a good command of a foreign language.

你必须努力用功，才能具备良好的外语能力。

First-time exporters cited language as a barrier to entering international markets.

首次试水的出口商将外语打入国际市场的一大障碍。

Barney knew scantiest amount of French and not a syllable of anything else.

巴尼只懂一点点法文，其他外语一个字都不会。

When most people learn English as a second language, they learn formal English.

当大多数人以英语第二外语开学习时，他们学的就是这种正式英语。

Ok. Can you say anything in a foreign language?

那你能用外语说点什么吗？

Today, more people speak English as their first, second or foreign language than ever before.

今天，把英语作自己的第一语言、第二语言或外语来使用的人比以时候都多。

English now is also spoken as a foreign or second language in South Asia.

现在英语在南亚地区也被作外语或第二语言使用。

For example, things like HTML or speaking a foreign language — those are skills.

比如会某种计算机语言或者会说一门外语——这些都是技能。

This is just a sample of the foreign words that we use regularly in English.

这只是我们在英语日常使用中用到外语单词的例子。

Ok, what can you say in another language?

你用外语会说些什么？

What about your second foreign language since you were an English major?

既然你学的是英语业，那你的第二外语如?

Scholars have different opinions on how to learn a foreign language well.

关于如学好一门外语，学者们持不同观点。

How many foreign languages can you speak?

你能说多少门外语？

He lived abroad for many years, he knows several foreign languages.

他在国外住了许多年，他懂好几种外语。

Then, do you have to learn a foreign language in school?

那么你在学校必须学一门外语吗？

I have made many friends who have the same interest. I can't speak foreign languages.

我交了许多有同样兴趣的朋友，我不会说外语。

After her mother's death Jo moved to Portugal to teach English as a Foreign Language.

在她母亲去世以后，乔移居葡萄牙当教外语的外语老师。

Jokes about speaking a foreign language, German for example, always work.

可以讲外语的笑话，譬如德语，就经常起作用。

But perhaps you are being forced to learn a foreign language.

但是也许你正被迫学习一门外语。

Learning foreign languages will still be important in the future.

未来，学习外语仍然至关重要。