3. Read the text again. In pairs, answer the questions: 1) How many languages did Ludwik Zamenhof speak? 2) Why did he invent a language? 3) Who was Doktoro Esperanto? 4) What name did Zamenhof give to his language? 5) When did Zamenhof die? 6) When was Esperanto very popular?

1. He spoke six languages: Russian, Yiddish, French, Hebrew, Polish and German.
2. He invented it because he believed that different languages caused conflicts and he wanted a world without war.
3. Doktoro Esperanto was Ludwik Zamenhof’s pseudonym.
4. He called it Lingvo Internacia, but people preferred the name Esperanto.
5. He died in 1917.
6. It was very popular in the 1920s and 1930s.

Перевод: 1) Он говорил на шести языках. 2) Он хотел создать мир без войн. 3) Это был псевдоним Людвика Заменгофа. 4) Он назвал язык Lingvo Internacia, но люди предпочли название Esperanto. 5) Он умер в 1917 году. 6) Эсперанто был особенно популярен в 1920-е и 1930-е годы.