If an ordinary schoolchild or student were asked about it, sighing woefully day-by-day over vast tables of irregular verbs and trying to memorize the basics of grammar, he would answer: "In order to get a good mark for six months." Further prospects in learning the language are hidden from him. Why? Because before talking about how useful the knowledge of foreign languages for understanding the world, it is necessary to provide opportunities for their application.
And indeed, why talk about the fact that foreign languages are necessary for obtaining a prestigious job or traveling abroad without a dictionary, if both of us have only dreamed about both? It would seem that it’s easier: spend a year, two, or third on mastering the language, and the dream will come true. However, one should not discount that in these few years it is necessary for someone to feed, dress, shoe, and provide him with funds (sometimes considerable) for learning the language. Usually he does this, as far as possible.
Thus, it all depends on the personal desire of the person, guided by career, status, intellectual and other goals? Not certainly in that way. In order to really know a foreign language, you need to learn to see the world as its natural speaker does. Today, of course, the Internet can partially help in this, which provides the opportunity for virtual travel to almost any country in the world and communication with its inhabitants. But in perfection - with the whole system of thoughts and feelings - it is impossible to learn a single language of the world, especially not at school age.
There is only one way out - to start learning languages with a child practically from the cradle. And for this, adults need to understand that languages are needed to obtain information from the source, which is indispensable in the modern world, and to improve communication skills and the development of intellectual abilities. But parents — like millions and billions of parents around the world — are only concerned with their daily bread. Sometimes forgetting that a high level of intellectual development is no less important. At least in order to increase the well-being of the family in the near future.
The knowledge of languages, in the end, is the ability to see prospects and set real goals for the formation of which one can use the most powerful weapon of a person - intelligence.
