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More than one half billion people around the world have one thing in common: they speak English (53 countries).

You are one of those people. English helps you connect with other people and understand more about their backgrounds, feelings and points of view.

By learning English, you are also able to share your own thoughts, opinions and feelings with other English speakers.

Today people are not only connecting as citizens of a community, but also as netizens, members of online communities. Throughout this text, we will discuss how the English language is an important part of our lives.

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Words in sentences can receive different stresses to change the meaning of the sentence, which is not something that commonly happens in other languages.

For English-as-a-second language students, conjugating verbs is the worst nightmare. Learning how to speak the language requires and craves a commitment, but thanks to online courses and school that helps you study the language and increase your fluency, is easier than ever.

On the other side, it makes it easier to understand other languages as Roman and French. It’s a Germanic language that uses many similar words in Romance language: French, Spanish and Portuguese.

Does speaking foreign languages make you more intelligent? Depends. Is the ability to speak another language part of the intelligence?

Not necessarily but being intelligent and knowing foreign languages do share one thing in common: they are both painful.

By painful, I don’t mean the ennui of tediously long lectures, vocabulary and grammatical studies or the expense of time for the pursuit of wisdom and knowledge.

Nor even the loneliness your dedication to the endeavor could bring upon you. The pain, torment, is the confusion for the bigger circle of the known.

The greater the contact with the unknown, and the more firmly unlearnt believes used to stand, the more helplessly your new identity totters.

If you are lucky enough to study Farsi, you may realize that not all the beautiful poetry is written in your mother tongue.

The Persian epics written in the Sasanian Empire are as beautiful as poems of the Tang Dynasty.

If you happen to study Spanish, what you thought so unique an aspect of your culture has a similar counterpart in another culture.