Learning foreign languages is important nowadays. I think that any educated person must learn foreign languages. But I prefer English to other foreign languages. Why? English is becoming a global language. A half of billion people in the world use English at home or work. English is the language which is known for the most part of our fine, magnificent and surprising world. English is so widespread that it has become the standard language for all kinds of international communication.
A lot of problems of the 21st century, such as the problems of war and peace, ecology, can not be solved without speaking the same language.
The English language is now the first language of about 350 million people, the native language of 12 nations and the official language of more than 33 nations. It means that one of seven people in the world speaks English.
English is also the international language of businesspeople, pilots and air traffic controllers, sportsmen, scientists and students. If you want to be a stewardess, a pilot or an air control officer you have to learn English, the language of international communication. Every year thousands of people from Russia go to different countries as tourists or to work. They can’t go without knowing the language of the country they are going to. A modern engineer or even a worker cannot work with an imported instrument or a machine if he is not able to read the instruction how to do that.
Some people learn English because they need it in their work; others to travel aboard and for lots of people learning English is just a hobby.
I have been learning English since the age of 11. I like learning English very much. But I like and know well my native language, Russian. The great German poet Goethe once said: “He, who knows no foreign language, does not know his own one.” I agree with him. The knowledge of English helps me to learn Russian.
The knowledge of English is a great power. I need to know English. I must appreciate and embrace this knowledge as the key to achievement of my dream. I hope my progress in English will be very good.
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1. No. I am not lestening to music now.
2.No. I have not tidiet up my bed room
3.No. I did not
4.No. I would not. Sorry.
Her name is Valentino Rossi.She is from Italy
Her name is Maria Sharapova.She is from Russia
His name is Ronaldinho.He is from Brazil
OK, the newspapers in England, well, we've got quite a lot of newspapers, some of the more serious ones like The Times. Then you got the middle of the range, things like the Daily Mail and the Daily Express, and then you got the British tabloids, which we're quite famous for, and the tabloids are quite interesting.Ну, что сказать о газетах в Англии? Газет у нас много. Из числа наиболее серьёзных назову "Таймс". Затем газеты, так сказать, среднего уровня, типа "Дейли мейл" и "Дейли Экспресс", и, наконец - жёлтая пресса (таблоиды): ими мы славимся, и они у нас довольно интересные.Basically, the tabloids are just gossip, and they will report anything and everything in great detail. Um, a lot of people kind of disapprove of the tabloids but personally I find them quite interesting and entertaining.По сути, таблоиды публикуют любые слухи (сплетни), всё обо всём, и с всякими подробностями. У... многие неодобрительно относятся к таблоидам, но лично я считаю, что они интересны и занимательны.In our house, we have a tabloid newspaper, The Daily Mirror and we have the Daily Mail as well. And in the Mirror you'll get all the gossip, and things like horoscopes, and real celebrity news like recently you've had the David Beckham thing that he's been having an affair, and that was interesting.В нашем доме читают таблоид "Дейли миррор", но читают и (более серьёзную) "Дейли мейл". В "Миррор" можно прочесть любые слухи, есть гороскопы и новости про знаменитостей. Вот недавно был материал про Дэвида Бекхэма, про его любовную связь - интересно.It went into real detail all the text messages that they sent and everything, uh, and it is kind of, it is just gossip, but then many people get the tabloids because it reports the sport in a lot of detail, so a lot of men get the, for the football scores and horse racing and <span>horse racing and everything.</span>