Learning a foreign language isn’t an easy thing. Nowadays it’s
especially important to know foreign languages. Some people learn
languages because they need them for their work, others travel abroad,
for the third studying foreign languages is a hobby. Everyone, who knows
foreign languages can speak to people from other countries, read
foreign authors in the original, which makes your outlook wider. I study
English. It’s a long and slow process that takes a lot of time and
efforts. Over 300 million people speak it is a mother tongue. The native
speakers of English live in Great Britain, the United States of
America, Australia and New Zealand.
“Do you speak English?” – with this phrase begins the
conversation between two people, that speak different languages and want
to find a common language.
It’s very good when you hear: “Yes, I do”, and start talking.
People from different countries and nations have to get along well with
the progress in the world trade and technology as well as with each
other.
So it is very useful to learn foreign languages. Knowledge of
foreign languages helps us to develop friendship and understanding among
people.
English is very popular now. It’s the language of computers,
science, business, sport and politics. English language is a wonderful
language. It’s the language of the great literature. It’s the language
of William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and others. Half of the world’s
scientific literature is in English. It’s the language of computer
technology. Nearly half of all business deals in Europe are conducted in
English. It is the language of sports and glamour: the official
language of the Olympics and the Miss Universe Competition. English is
the official voice of the air and the sea, and Christianity: it is the
ecumenical language of the World Council of Churches. The largest
broadcasting companies in the world (CBS, NBS, ABC, BBC) transmit in
English to audiences that regularly exceed one hundred million. The
great German poet Goette once said, “He, who knows no foreign language,
doesn’t know his own one”. That’s why in order to understand oneself and
environment one has to learn foreign languages.
Speaking a foreign language you can read papers, magazines and
original books by great writers, watch satellite TV programs. If you
like traveling you can go anywhere without being afraid that other
people will not understand you.
I think that to know English today is absolutely necessary for every educated man, for every good specialist.
So, English has no equals! Dispute it if you can!