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Unit 2
English around the world
Section Ⅲ Learning about
Language & Using Language
2.psd
练读文 记词汇 学翻译
1 教材助读
When people use words and expressionseq \o(○,\s\up6(10))different from the “standard language”⑪,it is called a dialect⑫.American English has many dialects, especially the midwestern⑬,southern⑭, African American and Spanish dialects.Even in some parts of the USA, two people from neighbouring⑮ towns speak a little differently. American English has so many dialects because people have come from all over⑯ the world.
Geography also plays a part in⑰ making dialects.Some people who⑱ live in the mountains of the eastern⑲ USA speak with an older kind of English dialect. When Americans moved from one place to another, they took their dialects with them.So people from the mountains in the southeastern⑳ USA speak with almost the same dialect aseq \o(○,\s\up6(21)) people in the northwesterneq \o(○,\s\up6(22)) USA.The USA is a large country in which many different dialects are spokeneq \