If I look at my average grades for languages I see that I'm not that good at it, although I think it's important to be skilled at languages. They give you an opportunity to communicate with other people from different countries. My main difficulty is writing a foreign language. Most of the time I practice languages by talking to family members, friends or by watching television, but it's rather rare that I write a letter or e-mail in English or any other foreign language.
             I try to solve the problem by writing e-mails to my old English girlfriend, who helped me a lot with my English writing and speaking skills. I still notice the difference before and after I met her. I am able to speak English, French and of course my mother tongue Dutch. A big number off people in my family is French, that's why I get to speak that language very often.
             Our society is getting more and more multicultural, so if you want to communicate in the future you should pay some attention at certain languages. Especially English because it's the lingua Franca from these days. Most recent estimates suggest that 377 million people speak English as a first language. The two largest concentrations are the USA (226 million) and the UK (56 million). There are no official figures available on the number of people who use English as a second language, but we estimate about 300 million people, around one-third of the world's population.
             I guess I will be using English the most in my future studies, because it's "THE" main computer language!
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