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

/^t/Another sphere of man's life in which the advantages of foreign language study play an important part, concerns one's career. It occurs that in the contemporary world the knowledge of at least one foreign language is indispensable to find any job, not only good and well-paid one, which is quite different from what it used to be in the past. The changes of political and economic systems in many countries have contributed to the sudden increase of demand for specialists of different kinds who use foreign languages. In fact, most companies prefer to employ people having a good command of foreign languages. Of course, this ability is not the only one to be taken into consideration but it is well to have it.