Monday, May 18, 2015

What do you use English for?

 People began to speak many centuries ago, and since then they have been speaking different languages. Every language temperament of each nationality. Languages help people to understand each other better and so people learn foreign languages.
 All languages are different. Some are very hard, some are easier, some are similar, but there are no identical languages in the whole world. There are more than 2,700 languages in the world. Most of them are "alive" because people use them, but there are "dead" languages, for example, Latin.
 Two thousands years ago, Latin was the world's most important international language. Today this title belongs to English. It's a language of travel, business, pop culture, sport and science.
 Over one million people speak English. For over 400 million it's their first language. For the other 600 million it's either a second language or a foreign language. Today, in fact, over 250 million people are learning English. That's more than the population of the USA.
 Now English is spoken practically all over the world, this is one of the official languages of the United Nation Organisation. To my mind English is worth studying. There is a proverb: "A new language is a new world". "Knowledge is a power" one great man said. Speaking a foreign language one can not only read, watch also besides, understanding and speaking a foreign language became necessary while applying for a good and well-paid job.

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