If you don’t speak English as your second language, you may be in real trouble nowadays 😀
Do you want to travel?
Do you want to shop online worldwide?
Do you want to watch films and series in the original sounding?
Do you want to study any subject and cannot find good sources in your native language?
Then English is a MUST for you. Actually, for us all.
I even notice English words and phrases in Czech language. Very often among younger people, who are used to TikTok, YouTube, gaming, podcasts and spend a lot of time (FUN time!) online. But I also observe it in ads, news articles, in jobs, companies and factories.
Czech car, Czech brand. English slogan: Škoda – Simply clever.
We are surrounded by English even in the middle of Europe. It is hard to say if people like it. I guess my parents, who are over 60 and don’t know any English words, may be lost sometimes.
And I am SOOOOOO happy to have had the oportunity to learn English in my kindergarten.
There was a new kindergarten in our town in 1990´s. It all began then. I loved learning English by singing songs, watching pictures and repeating simple phrases. Without the skill to read and write that time!
Honestly, my primary and secondary school years were not the happiest period for my English learning. I just remember one teacher, who did spend some time in the UK. Her English accent appealed to me so much that I fell in love with listening to her English.
And then I decided to study English at college and during studies I had a few opportunities to stay abroad for a few months – in London, in Wroclaw, Poland (yes, we also spoke English there :-D) and in Dublin, Ireland… That was the real immersion for me and that was when I started to “think, live and experience” in English.
English is an enormous part of my life. I cannot imagine not understanding it. Without English, I would feel like I didn’t have a hand 😀
