Studying Foreign Languages

Today it is quite evident that everyone should know at least one foreign language. Knowing one or more foreign languages makes it possible to get to know' different ways of thinking, to understand a new culture. Learning a foreign language stimulates mental abilities and gives you a chance to ap­preciate a new literature, a different culture and to broaden your outlook.

Besides, knowing foreign languages has a practical value It makes it easier to choose a profession and helps to get a job promotion. It helps to improve the quality of your work, because it reduces the time lost on ob­taining the necessary information. At present many professions require a working knowledge of at least one foreign language.

There are a lot of people who know several languages. They are called polyglots. The more languages a person knows, the easier he masters a new- one. As polyglots say it is difficult to begin But when you start learning a third language - everything goes on smoothly. It is within everyone's power to know, read and speak a foreign language. But one should re­gard learning a foreign language as a very important and serious task The knowledge of other languages is very useful, especially if you have to work abroad or if you must read foreign literature in the original If you know die language of a foreign country, you can talk to its people and understand what they are speaking about without anybody’s help.

It’s a good idea to study English as a foreign language It is not only the national or official language of some thirty states, which represent differ­ent cultures, but it is also the major international language of communica­tion in such areas as science, technology, business and mass entertainment English is one of the official languages of the United Nations Organization and other organizations. It is the language of literature, education, modem music, and international tourism.

Russia is integrating into die world community and learning English for the purpose of communication is especially urgent today.

3. Ознакомьтесь с некоторыми интересными статистическими дан­ными относительно английского и некоторых других широко распро­страненных языков.

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