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Learning a foreign language is not an 1) thing. It is a long and slow 2) that takes a lot of 3) and efforts. Nowadays it is especially 4) to know foreign languages. Some people learn languages because they need them for their 5) , others travel abroad, for the third studying languages is a hobby. Everyone, who knows 6) languages can speak to people from other countries, read foreign writers in the 7) , which makes your outlook wider. It is not 8) that many intellectuals and well-educated people are polyglots. I study English. Nowadays English has become the world's most important language in politics, science, trade and 9) relations. Over 300 million people speak it as a 10) tongue. The native speakers of English 11) in Great Britain, the United States of America, Australia and New Zealand. English is one of the 12) languages in the Irish Republic, Canada, the South Africa Republic. English is one of the official languages of the United Nations Organization and other political organizations. Half of the world's scientific 13) is in English. It is the language of computer technology. To know English today is absolutely 14) for every educated person, for every good specialist. The English language is a 15) language. It is the language of the 16) literature. It is the language of William Shakespeare, Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott, Charles Dickens. The great German poet Goethe once said, "He, who knows no foreign language, does not know his own one." That is17) in order to 18) oneself and other people one has to study foreign languages.
