What is the best way to learn a language? We should remember that we all learn our own language well when we were ___16___. We learned to talk when we were about one year old. If we could learn a second ___17___ in the same way, it would not seem so difficult. Think of what a small child does. It listens to what people say and tries to imitate(模仿) what it hears. When it wants something, it has to ask for it. It is using the language, talking in it, and thinking it all the time. If ___18___ had to use a second language all the time, they would learn it quickly.

We learn our own language by hearing people speak it, not by seeing what they write. We imitate what we hear. In ___19___, though we learn to read and write as well as to hear and speak, it is the best to learn all the new words through the ___20___. You can read them, spell them, and write them later.

A.people

B.ear

C.language

D.children

E.school