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My Attitude to Foreign Languages
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 authors in the original.
I study English. Over 300 million people speak it as a mother tongue. It is the state language in 5 countries: Great Britain, Canada, the USA, Australia, New Zealand. It is the language of computers technology. To know English today is necessary for every good specialist. English 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 and others.
The great German poet Goethe 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.
Why Do WeLearn English
The most important reason for learning English is:
"English is the Best Hope for a World Language".
Of the existing languages, English has by far the best start. The total number of languages in the world is large: between 4,000 and 4,500. There are only five languages that can claim a very large number of speakers, namely, Chinese, English, Spanish, Hindi-Urdu and Russian (in that order). Of these languages, only English can claim to be a more or less universal language.
The most spread language is Chinese. It is spoken by about 1 billion people. It is easy to explain. China is the most populated country in the world. That is why every sixth man speaks Chinese. Chinese is followed by English.
It is obvious that those who learnEnglish develop closer ties with English-speaking countries. They read books from these countries and learn about their history and their customs.
Some people try to refute it offering Esperanto. But as for Esperanto, it is not able to become a world language, because it is a synthetic language and lots of people just refuse to learn it.
There are some people who say that we don’t need international language at all. Machine translation has made a lot of progress in the last few years. But computers can only help us in reading or writing, but not in speaking and communication in English, computers will never be as intelligent and interesting speakers as people.
Date: 2016-01-03; view: 1710
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