HOW MARX LEARNED FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Karl Marx was born in Germany, and German was his native language。 When he was still a young man,he was forced to leave his homeland for political reasons。    He stayed in Belgium for a few years; then he went to France。 Before long he had to move on again。 In 1849,he went to England and made London the base for his revolutionary work。
高中英语课文Marx had learned some French and English at school。 When he got to England, he found that his English was too limited。    He started working hard to improved it。 He made such rapid  progress that before long he began to write articles in English for an American newspaper。    In fact, his English in one of these articles was so good that Engels wrote him a letter and praised him for it。 Marx wrote back to say that the praise had greatly encouraged him。
However,he went on to explain that he was not sure about two things - the grammar and some of the idioms。     In the years that followed , Marx kept on studying English and using it。 When he wrote one of his great works。 The Civil War in France, he had mastere
d the language so well that he was able to write the book in English。 
In the l870s, when Man was already in his fifties ,  he found it important to study the situation in Russia, so he began to learn the Russian。
In one of his books, Marx gave some advice on how to learn a foreign language。    He said when people are learning foreign language,they should not translate everything into their own language。 If they do this,  it show they have not mastered When they use  foreign language, they should try to Forger all about their own。  If they cannot do this, they have not really learned the spirit of  foreign language and cannot use it freely。