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Dialogue A: WHY DO YOU LEARN FOREIGN LANGUAGE?

- Is it easy for you to learn foreign language?

- Learning a foreign language is not an easy thing. It is a long and slow process that takes a lot of time and efforts.

- Why do you learn foreign language?

- Nowadays it is especially important to know foreign language. Some people learn language, because they need it for their work, others travel abroad, for the third studying language is a hobby. Everyone, who knows foreign language can speak to people from other countries, read foreign authors in the original, which makes your outlook wider.

- Why do you learn exactly English?

- Nowadays English has become the world’s most important language in politics, science, trade and cultural relations.

- Do many people in the world speak English as a mother language?

- Over 300 million people speak it as a mother language. The native speakers of English live in Great Britain, the United States of America, Australia and New Zealand. English is one of the official 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.

- What language is used by scientists?

- Half of the world’s scientific literature is in English. It is the language of computer technology. To know English today is absolutely necessary for every educated man, for every good specialist.

- Do you like English?

- English language is a wonderful language. It is the language of the great literature. It is the language of William Shakespeare, Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott, Charles Dickens. The great German poet Goethe said: “He, who knows no foreign language, does not know his own one.”