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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[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,
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I have a dream and I want to know the secret of time and universe.

[Paulina1000]

I want to learn english because the articles, magazines, books, movies, the boy that I like, is in english!!! So the way to reach, enjoy, comunicate, them is speakin english!! JAJA I know that is not so simple, but I´m completly sure that I will be a winner learning english!! the most of the things, learning, getting, is about attitude.

[Bergdeutscher]

I want to improve my english for better reading, speaking and writing. There are very interest books only in english language. And that really annoys me.

[Amber]

Hi everybody

First of all I want to learn English because this is the language you can speak in every country and there always will be at least one person who will understand you. So shorter answer for this question would be : I learn English because I want foreign people understand me. Second I am currently living in country where you can speak only English. But most of all I like this language and this is because most of my favorite songs and movies are in English. Unfortunately languages are not my forte and yet I don't know how long I will learn this language so one day to be able to write correctly message like this.

Regards
Amber :)

[Jafarmadina]

Why do we must to learning English?

[Hany_Keshk73]

Hi Torsten
I think people want to learn or improve their English skills because they want undersatnd the others . If you understand the other you will learn new things, you will know how they think, you will get the knowledg , these are my reasons and some people learn english to get good salaries only.
When I was start to improve my English skilles I was ask myselef when I will say im good in English but after few monthes I knew the answer from our teacher the answer is NO END FOR ENGLISH LEARNING because he still search about new words or idiom, but really I havent time now I worked more than 10 hours everyday and I need to time to my family , my kid ., So i try to learn in my weekend or in my holiday and I know it is not enough and I will move very slowly but I havnt another solution . I will try to save more time and really im enjoy with this site.

[Bdgtagum]

i want to study English to be able to get into a university in the USA. TO BE able to communicate with others .as well as ,to be able understand lertures given.