English is an international langusge. One billion people speak English today. That`s about 20% of the world`s population. English is taught throughout the world and a lot of people speak it quite well. English is the language of politics and diplomacy, science and technology, buisness and trade, sport and pop music. To know English is absolutely necessary for every educated person, for every good specialist. If you know English well, you can communicate with people from other countries, read foreign literature in the original, understand films in English without any help. In our country English is very popular: it is studied at schools, colleges and universities. I`m sure that everyone will speak English soon. We all need to understand each other and English will help us.