Text a. Oral topic: foreign languages in our life.

Learning foreign language is not easy thing. It is a long and slow process that takes a lot of time and efforts.

You can’t imagine an educated person who doesn’t know any foreign language. Nowadays it is especially important to know foreign languages. Some people learn languages, because they need them for their work, others travel abroad, for third studying 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. It is not surprising that many intellectuals and well-educated people are polyglots. English has become the world’s most important language in politics, science, trade and cultural relations and it is also the language of computers technology. It is spoken all over the world. It is the official language of the United Kingdom, Ireland, the United States of America, Canada, Australia. 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. English is very important to find a good job.

Every thousands of people go from one country to another either on business or for pleasure. And the knowledge of languages opens the door to any foreign country and gives them a possibility to communicate, to understand people and to be understood.

A real professional cannot do without knowing languages, especially English as it is international language. You don’t need to know Japanese when you go to Japan or Hindi when you visit India. English is spoken all over the world. You can hear it everywhere: in a street, in shops, at restaurants.

A modern engineer or even a worker deals with instruments and machines from other countries. He must be able to read the instruction which is usually written in English.

Scientists and scholars must understand English well because they use foreign literature to write their articles and books. They must speak English fluently to make at international conferences.

Diplomats need foreign languages in their work too. They make contacts, conclude treaties, and hold negotiations.

If you want to be a stewardess, a pilot or a businessman you must learn English, the language of international communication. Even a shopgirl or a cashier in a big department store must know at least some phrases in English to understand a foreign customer.

Foreign languages develop our mind. They help us to get acquainted with new many books in the original.

Besides, languages are very helpful in establishing friendly relations between peoples and nations. Children and young people will understand each other better if they speak one language.

English language is a wonderful language. It is the language of the great literature, the language of William Shakespeare, Walter Scott and Charles Dickens. The great poet Goethe the once said: “He, who knows no foreign language, does not know his own one”. That is why in order to understand oneself and environment one has to study foreign languages.