LEARNING LANGUAGES

You live a new life for every new language you speak.

If you know only one language, you live only once.

[Czech proverb]

The Biblical story about The Tower of Babel speaks about how so many different languages in the world appeared. Learning a foreign language takes time and dedication, but there are many reasons to learn a foreign language, from working, studying in another country to traveling, linguistic interest and many others.

If you have decided to learn a language, you may be quite sure which language to choose. To some extent, your choice depends on your reasons for learning a language. For example, if you'd like to communicate with as many people as possible, learn such languages as English (480 million speakers), Spanish (320mln), French (265mln), Russian (285mln) or German (109mln) would enable you to do so. (http://www2.ignatius.edu/faculty/turner/languages.htm)

In my opinion, the most important thing in learning languages is learning vocabulary. Also if you want to speak a language well - pay particular attention to the pronunciation and review it regularly. Familiarity with the grammar of a language enables you to understand it, and also to construct your own phrases and sentences.

There's a wide range of materials and tools available to help you with your language studies, including language courses, dictionaries, grammar books, phrasebooks, online lessons, mp3 players and electronic translators.

Eventually, I think that it depends only on person how long he learns language, how many languages he can learn and how good he is in learning. And if person has a passion for it… he could to move heaven ;)

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