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

Speaking foreign languages is very fashionable. Almost everybody would like to speak at least one foreign language fluently but is it worthwhile? Probably most of people would answer "of course" "yes", for sure we would find the group of people who would ask the question "what for". What is more they would give an argument that they live in Poland they are not intending to go abroad and they do not need the knowledge of a foreign language at work. Finally they may even say if foreigners come to their country so that is their problem to know how to communicate in Poland. Luckily not everybody thinks in that way, otherwise we know just nothing about other nations.