Every day we can see that it is
very important to know foreign languages. The Internet and satellite TV enable
us to get information from all over the world. We are able to get education or
a job in any country of the world. But we all know that we have to know the
language of the country we want to study or work in.
English is the world's first
truly universal language. Today there are more than 1.5 billion English
speakers in the world. At any station or airport in the world we can find
instructions in English. Pilots and air traffic controllers, sailors speak
English at all international airports and ports.
More than 80
percent of information of any kind (scientific, commercial, personal) is stored
and exchanged in English. Business and trade can't exist now without
English. It is the official language of international aid organizations such as
OXFAM and Save the Children Fund as well as of UNESCO, NATO and the
United Nations.
If we listen to the talk of young
people we'll hear words like 'rap music', 'bodybuilding', 'windsurfing',
'computer hacker' and others. English has become a part of youth culture all
over the world and in Russia too.
If we want to feel ourselves
comfortable in our modern world we must know English. But it's not the limit.
The knowledge of one foreign language extends our mind more than twice. So
let's not put limits on our minds and souls and study more foreign languages.
