English as a world language. The problem of lerning languages is very importatnt today. Foreighn languages are socially demanded especially at the present time when the progress in science and technology has led to an explosion of knowledge and has contrubuted to an overflow of information.Foreighn languages are needed as the main and most efficient means of information exchange of people. Now when English is one of the major languages in the world it requires an effort of imagination to realize that this is a very relatively recent thing, that in Shakespeare’s time, for example,only a few million people spoke Eng. English has become a world language becuse of its establishment as the mother tongue outside England. This exporting began in the seventeenth century with the first settlements in north America. Above all it is the great growth of population in the united states, assisted by massive immigration in the nineteenth and twenteenth centuries that has given the English language its present standing in the world. Today, English is the laguage of the world.Over 300 million speak it as a mother language.It is also the major international language of communication in such areas as science, technology, business and mass media. People who speak English fall into one of 3 groups: those who have learned it as their native language, those who have learned it as a second language, and those who are forced to use it for a practical purpose-administative, professional or educational. But everyone who knows English can speak to people from other countries, read foreighn authors in original, which makes your outlook wider. Half of the world’s scientific literature is in English. It is the language of computer technology. To know english today is absolutely necessary for every educated man, for every good specialist. It is the official language of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, of the USA, Australia, New Zeland. English is used as one of the official languages in Canada, the Republic of South Africa and the Irish Republic. English language is a wonderful language. It is the language of the great literature. The great German poet Goethe said : “he, who knows no foreighn language, doesn’t know his own one”.