How many languages do you speak?One, maybe two, you say? Wrong ! If you speak English, you use words from at least 35 foreign languages. Want proof? Read the next two sentences out loud: “ Jane saw a baby squirrel( 松鼠) outside the window.Although she was still wearing her cotton pajamas (睡衣) , she hurried outside to look at it. ” There: You just spoke five languages- counting English! “ Baby ” comes from a Dutch word spelled the same way. “ Squirrel ” is French. “ Cotton ” was first an Arabic word and “ pajamas ” was taken right from the Urdu language of India. Surprised? You shouldn ’ t be. Tim Morris is an English professor at the University of Texas, Arlington. He says that when we speak English, we ’ re using bits and pieces of many languages. Dr. Morris asks his college English classes to count “ loan words ” -words we use that were taken directly from other languages. He jokes about the term “ loan words. ” It seems unlikely that we ’ re going to give these words back after we ’ ve done with them, ” he says. “ Imported words ” might be a better term. According to studies bone by Morris and others, English sentences may contain 15 percent or less of these “ loan words. ” Complex sentences may be 50 percent or more “ imported. ” Scientific papers might use mostly loan words. “ We use imports constantly (不断地) , ” Morris says, “ generally without any idea we are using them. ”