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Foreign Language in the Life of an Educated Man

During the long history of mankind people were lonely because they built walls instead of bridges.

Now we have such bridges: they are foreign languages. Many people in different countries study foreign languages. There are a lot of people who use foreign languages in computers, medicine, in many branches of sciences. For example, a good engineer or a qualified worker should be able to read some technical papers for the imported equipment.

They know the proverb: “So many languages you know so many times you are a man”. And most of them learn English because of increasing political, economical and cultural ties among countries. It plays an important role in the world communication, international business and social and cultural affairs.

The 20th century saw an enormous development in learning of English as a foreign language. Nowadays English has become the world’s most important language in politics, science, trade and cultural relations. Over 300 million people speak it as a mother tongue. The native speakers of English live in Great Britain, the United States of America, Australia and New Zealand. English is one of the official languages in the Irish Republic, Canada, the South Africa Republic. English is one of the official languages of the United Nations Organization and other political organizations.

To know English today is absolutely necessary for every educated man, for every good specialist. English language is a world language. It is the language of the great literature. It is the language of William Shakespeare, Jonathan Swift, Walter Scoot, Charles Dickens.

People all over the world use the opportunity to learn English. The English language helps people to communicate more than it was before. Many people use English to be more intelligent in their occupation, they use foreign scientific literature to achieve better results in their career.

They study foreign languages to read and understand books in the original. Studying foreign languages enriches the native language, makes it clearer and more expressive.

The great German poet Goethe once said: “He, who knows no foreign language, does not know his own one”. It gives a great opportunity to compare two languages, to understand the mentality of another nation and to be proud to be among people who know the English language. I’m sure that knowledge of foreign language will open up a new world. The English language is like the ship bearing explorers to the new continents.

My ship has been sailing for 8 years. My results are not bad. I am satisfied with my results in English. I try to read English books, magazines, watch video films. Developing the idea I should say that diligent work, constant study and good work habits help me to be successful in my studies.

My dream is to travel around the world and communicate with different people.

I think the knowledge of spoken language will help me to express my opinion and feelings, to give and receive information, to say what I want to say, to listen and understand everybody everywhere.

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