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Alfred Nobel.
Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor, was a man of many contrasts. He was a son of a bankrupt, but became a millionaire; a scientist with a love of literature. He made a large fortune but lived a simple life. He was cheerful in company, and often sad in private. A lover of mankind, he never had a wife or family to love him, a patriotic son of his native land, he died alone on foreign soil.
He discovered a new explosive, dynamite, to improve the peacetime industries of mining and road building, but saw it used as a weapon of war. World-famous for his works he was never personally well-known, for throughout his life he avoided publicity.
He had never been to school or University but he studied privately and at the age of twenty he became a skillful chemist and an xcellent linguist. Like his father, Alfred Nobel was imaginative and inventive, but he had better luck in business and showed more financial sense.
He could see industrial openings for his scientific inventions and built up over 80 companies in 20 different countries. His greatness lay in his outstanding ability to combine the qualities of an original scientist and a forward-looking industrialist.
But Nobel's main concern was searching for a meaning to life. He was always generous to the poor.
His greatest wish was to see an end to wars and he spent much time and money working for this purpose.
His famous will, in which he left money to provide prizes for outstanding works in physics, chemistry, psychology, medicine, literature and peace, is a memorial to his interests and ideals.
The importance of foreign languages.
It is quite evident that everybody should know at least one foreign language nowadays. As for me, I am learning English, because it is now a number one language in the world.
It is the official language in many countries: the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, New Zealand and others. It is used as one of the official languages in Canada, the Irish Republic. It is also spoken as a second language in 30 countries in the world.
The choice of a foreign language to learn sometimes depends on fashion, if under fashion we mean the demands of life and society. The most fashionable language in the world nowadays is English.
In fact, English is the world's language in business, politics, science, culture, aviation, international sport and pop music. It is a language of computing and the Internet communication.
Knowing English has a practical value. It helps to choose a profession and provides a job promotion. It helps to improve the quality of your work, because it reduces the time lost on getting necessary information.
At present many professions, such as pilots, doctors, engineers, cosmonauts and many others need working knowledge of English. For example, a modern engineer deals with instruments and machines from other countries. He must be able to read instructions in English. Scientists use foreign literature to write their articles and books. They must speak English fluently at international conferences. English is a must for diplomats, politicians and businessmen.
The knowledge of English is very useful if you want to travel or to work abroad because you can talk to people without anybody's help. The knowledge or foreign language also helps young people of different countries to develop friendship and understanding in the world.
Foreign languages help people to understand different ways of thinking and different culture. It broadens our horizons.
Learning a foreign language stimulates mental abilities of a man. It develops imagination, logic and memory.
English helps me to feel confident. English is everywhere. It is in signs, clothing and household products. The names of pop groups, computer software and magazines are in English. We can hear lots of English words from the screen.English helps for me to know what is going on around me in the world as is a language of new technology.