Learning Foreign Languages

Is
it necessary to learn foreign languages nowadays? You can just go to the shop
and buy an electronic translator. But is it capable of giving you really
required information? More and more people come to a thought that electronic
machine never will be able to replace human's brain. All over the world people
are learning foreign languages. Everybody knows his own language, but another
one is very useful. It is important to know it when we travel to other
countries or when we must read foreign literature in the original. It is
necessary in the 21st century when international cooperation is sat its highest
level.

There
are more than 2700 languages in the world and some of them are international
ones.

English,
for example is spoken not only in the British Isles and the USA, but also in
other parts of the world. It is considered to be the international language by
plenty of world systems and associations.

About
250 million people speak it as their mother-tongue, and another 200 million
people use it as a second language.

It
is next to impossible to define how many people are learning it.

If
you know the language of a foreign country, you can talk to its people and
understand what they say.

Nowadays
it is not necessary to go abroad to communicate with native speakers. We live
in the era of high-technologies and you can just enter Internet to have a talk
with your friend from a foreign country.