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Default Re: Learning Foreign Languages: Is it a hobby or a must?

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Originally Posted by Harry Smith View Post
Anyway, let's go back and start the thread again. Is learning foreign languages a hobby or a must? Why do some people think that one language is enough to communicate? When I say some people I mean people living in Russia, Germany, France and the whole English speaking world.
*Here in the Philippines where good English speakers look GREAT (intelligent, rich, competent) in the eyes of people, we seem to feel that it really is necessary/a must to learn English. I used to think this way before till I found out that learning English as a hobby is a better way of doing it.
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