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Почему люди изучают иностранные языки?

Байрамгельдыева Илона, 10 «А» класс

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Смирнова Анна Андреевна, учитель иностранных языков

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Why do people learn foreign languages?

«Who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own."

Johann Goethe.

     Nowadays learning foreign languages is the main component of our lives. For many people, learning foreign languages is important, because nowadays we can hear foreign speech everywhere: on the streets, on TV and we do not think that it is strange but it is usual and normal for us. All conditions are created to learn languages as efficiently and quickly as possible. There are many programs and applications on the phones and computers, special language centers, which can help us to learn unfamiliar words. Now the most widely spread languages of the world are: English, Chinese, Spanish, and German.

    But we still don't know for what we should learn it? Is it so important to know languages? Can we survive in our world if we speak only a mother tongue?  So let us figure it out!

Firstly, such languages as English and German are main subjects. Secondly, foreign languages broaden our minds, people become more educated. Why is it important? Because we can explore the world themselves, we can travel abroad, find friends from all over the world and connected with them on the social network, through such contact we can expand our understanding of culture and customs of different people. If a person knows foreign languages, he can read great works in the original, listen to musical compositions and understand all the feelings that were putting in the songs. If we are interested in a career, a good salary, a decent standard of living, then the knowledge of languages is very useful in realizing these goals.    

Can we survive in the world where we speak only native language? I think yes, we can, but what kind of life will this be? Tiresome, uninteresting, monotonous days, no major international projects, respectively no development. Are there another minuses in life without foreign tongues? Of course, yes. Every language has many words, which had gotten from another. One complements another, and our speech becomes diverse.

Nevertheless, some people believe that languages ​​are a waste of time.
If you want to learn a foreign language, you need a good memory, logical thinking, but the main thing is to enjoy the learning process. It takes a lot of time and patience, and the result depends only on you. Besides, it is important to believe in yourself, remember your goal and not to give up.

Nowadays it is impossible to think about what was without the existence of such a variety of languages ​​on the Earth. Language is the wealth and it is vital to know foreign languages in our time of globalization.