Why are you learning English?

[Squirrel]

Hello all,

I have been learning English for years. While I was in school I was forced to learn just as so many friends of mine. As soon as I got a job I realized how English is important in my life since I was not able to understand our business partners, to read technical documentation, to participate in phone conferences etc. Of course, by getting the job I was able to travel abroad and once more I found that there were so many people speaking English much better than I did. So, I had made decision about learning English day by day. I must admit, I still have problems with my spare time, with motivation and will, but I so far I have not given up. Music sounds better if I understand words, movies sounds more interesting if I don't need translation. Even commercials became a great fun for me. I feel than I can speak to people from over the world and that's why I keep learning every day.

[Yadigar]

Dear Torsten,

Thanks for your regular emails. Your are doing great hard work.
I would like to improve my English but I cannot say that I achieve success. Main reason is that I dont study regularly. I must say that I am lazy.
But I have good motivation. In a two month I have to go to an English speaking country for a week. For this reason I am going to revise my faults in my studing English. I will write about my plans in the next e-mail soon.

Sincerely yours,
Yadigar

[Pushpacc]

The reason for me to learn English Language is to improve my writing skills. I always have phobia when I think about writing a letter to anyone.

Hope I would benefit for the exercises you have been giving it to me.

tks
Torsten

[Vetty]

I would be very grateful to get pro/contra arguments on the statement:" French language is the language of the XIX century, English is the language of the XX century and Chinese is the language of XXI." In particular, I am interested in Chinese. Do you think it's the most challenging language and new generation should persist learning it.

[Flávia Castilhos]

Hello from the south of Brazil!

I am learning English for many reasons. First of all, I make my living out of it, also the English language has been a way to improve my life in many ways, reading about subjects such as gardening, Holistic subjects , Philosophy, etc... It gives me a great pleasure to be able to read books of my areas of interest in English. And now that I've started studying French, it is English the language I use as a way to get information.
English has been a high point in my life. My two children speak English very well and they got it in a natural way, without courses, without teachers and they say it
was because of me , who made the language part of our lives. I do consider that a great achievement.
Well, but there is something that puzzles me: I work with translations, sometimes,and I do not like it very much because when I read in English I get the picture so easily. The problem appears when I try to put the idea in English into Portuguese. A always have a feeling there is something missing, the words do not fit properly. Well, I think it is part of the game, this feeling.
I Would like to exchange points of view on this subject, in case there is anybody interested on it.

Flávia

[Vetty]

My reason to study English is almost the same. I love it and it might be a word-for-word rewritting of your post.( I also have two kids and they are learning the language with me, can't say they know it perfectly well so far, they are rather young and the second foreign language is German) But to add a bit, I would ephasize my sencere love to the country where it as spoken, Britain, I mean. English humour, way of life, literature, behaviour is very clear for me. I enjoy reading and getting information in English. Speaking about translation, I am sure it's the matter of talant And nothing you could do about it. My daughter makes much better translations than me, though she is 11. And I could only conciliate myself that I am very good at feeling which translation is the best.

[Fimbriae]

Because it's for making my dreams come true.
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[Richard]

Hi.
You can see one of my reason on my signature.
pursue my goals and initial interest.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

[Zhangbaixiang]

1. I want to get a job in a foreign company;
2. I want to exchange with foreigners, to learn the new culture, diffirent customs, to communicate with the people from other countries,
3. Also I want to improve myselve to have a better future;
4. Last I want to prove that I can speak english as good as I can,