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Complete PICLE corpus of essays by Polish advanced EFL students (330,000)

Each nation has its own native language. In order to learn something about countries we are intrested in or we want to cooperate with, we may read books, magazines, watch TV programms or we may 'employ' a translator. However, there is also other way of 'getting' the knowledge. It is nothing else but learning the language that is spoken in the country of our intrest. Of course, everything depends on us. We have to decide which source of information is better. Some people would say that learning a foreign language is wasting of time whereas others would think that it is a great idea. The objective of my composition is to present different arguments pro and against learning foreign languages, and to convince the reader that being able to speak foreign languages is really valuable thing.