Практический курс английского языка (220,00 руб.)

I think it’s really important to learn any language, no matter how few people speak it. <...> It broadens your mind, you learn about other cultures and about other ways of thinking. <...> A lot of people I know in England, when I said I was learning Hungarian, would say, “What’s the point? <...> I remember telling my Mum I wanted to learn Swedish and she said, “Noone speaks it outside Sweden”, but what if I wanted to go and live there? <...> It would be essential that I learn it. <...> You can’t expect people to speak English. <...> People have the attitude in England that, you know, the whole world speaks English. <...> People here are now proud to tell me they learnt Russian for about 8 years and they can’t remember a single word apart from “DA” and “SPASIBA”. <...> It seems really strange to me that there are so many Americans here who cannot speak any Hungarian, even after living here for a long time. <...> I know one woman who has lived here for two years and she told me the other day, very proudly, that she can only say the days of the week and can count to 10 in Hungarian, and she’s not embarrassed at all about this. <...> I think that either she is, I don’t know, incredibly stupid, or she just lives in an expatriate world and never has to use it. <...> Maybe she 5 just shouts in English like English people abroad often do. <...> They think if they shout things very loudly it’s understandable, or that if they speak very slowly then everyone will understand them, and if people don’t understand them, then they are outraged that people don’t understand English. <...> I’m not totally fluent any more, I think, in Russian, not having used it for a couple of years, because I’m now concentrating on Hungarian, but if I go to Russia I remember it immediately — well <...>