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WHY DO WE LEARN ENGLISH LANGUAGE?

Umarxodjayeva Dilnoza Mirzakirovna

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People began to speak many centuries ago, and since then they have been speaking different languages. Every language reflects the soul, behavior and temperament of each nationality. People created their own alphabets and rules, but they always wanted to communicate with each other. Languages help people to understand and to know more about each other. Languages help people to understand each other better, they help them to solve different economic and political problems. Nowadays, a lot of people study English language in every possible way. Foreign-language study groups are organized at industrial enterprises, at the offices of big firms, at the educational establishments, at research institutes. Year by year the globe is getting smaller with the development of communication means and increase in transportation velocities. People of different countries and nations have to get along well with the progress in world trade and technology as well as with each other. “Knowledge is power”, one of the great men said.

Speaking a foreign language one can not only read the papers, magazines and original books by outstanding writers, but as well watch satellite TV programs, travel easily in the different parts of the world. Besides, understanding and speaking a foreign language or two became necessary while applying for a good and well-paid job. In our country English is very popular. It is studied at schools (sometimes even at nursery schools), colleges and universities. Learning English is not an easy thing as it takes a lot of time and patience. Sometimes it is boring to study grammar or to learn new words, but it is well known that reading books in the original, listening to the BBC news, communicating with the English speaking people will help a lot. Fortunately, I began learning English even before I could understand it.

XXI century professional no matter what job to choose. I try to read books, poems of English writers, I learn poems by heart and 10 words daily, I try to translate English songs. I also want to use English in my future job, because I want to become a professional English teacher. I learn English because I want to read

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Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde in their native language. I like Hemingway and Agatha Christie. Besides, I like to travel. But it is difficult to visit countries, when you do not know the language of the country, where I am going to, it will be easy to travel there, if I want to ask something, I can do it in English. I like to talk and make friends with people from different countries. I have many foreign friends in social sites as facebook and so on.

Now I have much fun writing letters to my American and British pen friends. I hope, some day we shall meet each other and have a good time. All languages are different. Some are very difficult, some are easy, some are similar, but there are no identical languages in the whole world. There are more than 7000 languages in the world. Most of them are “alive” because people use them, but there are “dead” languages, for example, Latin was the world’s most important international language two thousands years ago. Today this title belongs to English. Over two billion people speak English.

That’s almost one fifth of the world’s population. For over 800 million inhabitants’ it is the first language. For other 1200 million it’s either a second language or a foreign language. Today, in fact, over 550 million people are learning English. That’s more than the population of the USA. English, is an international language in the world. Most people are using this language in the daily life. Knowing English has lots of benefits not only in communication, but it also helps to improve the development in all the spheres.

Learning English takes an important and valuable part of a person’s education, especially for people working in companies using English as a main language.

There are many explanations for the importance of learning English: 1) Learning English helps people communicate and travel easily. 2) Learning English is a good opportunity for your career. As you can get more opportunities to cooperate with the customers and partners from different countries, using language without barriers. 3) Understanding documents relating to your job. 4) Understanding the English language may help you to get acquainted with the worlds’ heritage of literature. 5) English is the language of the media industry. If you speak English, you will not need to rely on translations and subtitles anymore, enjoy your favorite books, songs, films and TV shows. 6) English is also the language of the Internet. Majority of websites use English – so you will be able to take part in forums and discussions. 7) English is based on a simple alphabet and it is fairly quick and easy to learn compared to other languages. 8) By learning English, you will also learn about other cultures. Few experiences will make you grow as a person more than learning the values, habits and way of life in a culture that is different from yours. Today, there are many people all over the world study English.

Most of them think that maybe English becomes their second language. But have you ever wondered: “Why do we need to learn English?”. I am sure that it is very necessary and important to learn English now, because English is the language of the planet. Now, I would like to say some words about the history of this language. The rise of English is a story of wonderful success. When Julies Caesar landed in the 5th century, English was already spoken by people, who inhabited Great Britain, but they were not many and their English was not the language we know today. Nearly thousand years later, at the end of the 16th century when William Shakespeare created his works, English was the native language about 6 million Englishmen. At the time English was not used anywhere else except Great Britain, but now English is the main language of international aviation, shipping and the major language of diplomacy. In order to have a good job one should know foreign languages. One of the most widespread language in the world is English. But every well-educated person in the world speaks English, because it is the language of communication, business, science and culture.

English is now the most important and popular language in the world. It is the state language in five countries: Great Britain, Canada, the USA, Australia and New Zealand. English is one of the six official and working languages of the United Nations. It is the second working language in the European Community. In many Asian and African countries, such as India or Egypt, in former British colonies people speak English besides their native one. People also speak English in Europe. English is spoken practically all over the world. In a word, I understand that I have to learn English hard in a proper way.

I think English is worth studying. There is a proverb “A new language – a new world”. So I can say that English is absolutely necessary to know for every educated person, for every good specialist today. In conclusion, we will know learning English can get three major benefits, which are becoming an international person, communicating with any people in the world, and improving the changes in the job.

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