Nowadays, knowledge of languages is very important, since we live in a multicultural world. Language is what connects people, nations and states. Currently, English is present everywhere. By the way, this language is the most widely spoken in the world after Chinese. According to the latest data, almost 2 billion people speak English out of the total world population of 8 billion people. It is the language of business, commerce, politics, sports, fashion, culture and glamour. I would like to share my experience of learning English. I have been studying the language for quite a long time and I can point out the reasons why it would be worth devoting so much time to this. I learned my first English words and a couple of phrases at the age of six from colorful children's books. After that, there was no continuation, everything was forgotten. Only later, at a conscious age, I returned to learning the language, but this time the choice fell on French. Now I regret that I wasted my time, alt