Learning a foreign language is not an easy thing. It is a long and slow process that takes a lot of time and efforts.
Nowadays it is especially important to know foreign languages.
Some people learn languages because they need them for their work, others travel abroad, for the third studying languages is a hobby. Everyone, who knows foreign languages can speak to people from other countries, read foreign writers in the original, which makes your outlook wider.
The English language is one of the most important languages in the modern world. Nowadays, English has become the world’s most using language in politics, science, trade and cultural relations. Over 300 million people speak it as a mother tongue. This language is the official language in such countries as the United States of America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the South-African Republic, India and many African countries. English is one of the five official languages of the United Nations Organization. Half of the world’s scientific literature is in English. It is the language of computer technology.
To know English today is absolutely necessary for every educated person, for every good specialist. For example, a good engineer or a qualified worker should be able to read some technical papers for the imported equipment.
The English language is a wonderful language.
It is the language of the great literature. It is the language of William Shakespeare, Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott, Charles Dickens.
People want to learn foreign languages to write to their pen-friends, or to communicate with them personally. People also want to read the works of famous writers in the original, newspapers and magazines.
During the classes of foreign languages one can train his memory and thinking. A foreign language helps to know the native language better.
The great German poet Goethe once said, “He, who knows no foreign language, does not know his own one”.
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