Why study English?
The second most spoken language in the world and the lingua franca in many professions, English is a culturally rich, exciting field of study, with some 380 million native speakers. Only Chinese and Hindi have more native speakers while Spanish is similar in number. English is also the dominant member of the Germanic languages. It has lingua franca status in many parts of the world, due to the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the early 20th century to the present.
Through the global influence of native English speakers in cinema, music, broadcasting, science, and the Internet in recent decades, English is now the most widely learned second language in the world, although other colonial languages such as French and Spanish retain much importance worldwide.
Speaking English increases your salary 35% - Business Week Statistic. |
Globalization is creating a rapidly increasing demand for engineers who have the ability to deal effectively with professionals from other cultures and countries. The english language is de-facto standard in cross national communication between engineers. |
 English spoken in: |
Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States and other countries
(used as international language) |
| English total speakers: |
First language: about 380 million
Second language: 150 million-1 billion |
| English language family: |
Indo-European
- Germanic
-- West Germanic
--- Anglo-Frisian
---- Anglic
------ English |
| English writing system: |
Latin alphabet |
| English Language codes |
ISO 639-1: en
ISO 639-2: eng
ISO/DIS 639-3: eng |
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Multinational companies creates multinational opportunities
It used to be that if anyone did leave the country to work, that person was high up on the corporate food chain, and they stayed overseas only a few years. Not anymore. Opportunities are growing and becoming more readily available earlier in an engineer’s career. Careers are no longer isolated into specific country.
 Software outsourcing industry is growing fast. After China and India, Russia is now the third-largest software outsourcing destination in the world. In 2005, software exports reached an estimated $1 billion, up from just $120 million in 2000 and a 33% increase from 2004. The knowledge of English language is critical for engineer who wants efficiently works in software industry. Big companies like SUN, Intel, IBM, Google offering completive salaries on local labor markets of Russia , India , China and English language required to get good position in these companies.
Ukraine's software development industry is underdeveloped but growing fast. However, as domestic and foreign firms position themselves to take advantage of the global trend toward more outsourcing, the industry is feeling the pinch from a limited number of programmers and rising operating costs.
Although Ukraine has anywhere from between 300 and 400 software development firms, the country's market is far from mature. About 70 percent of these companies are small or medium-sized businesses
You commonly hear two phrases in China's technology world: "there's so much opportunity here" and "this is the new Silicon Valley".
Whether there's truth in either will be seen over time but China's software industry - spanning indigenous software vendors, overseas arms of foreign companies and outsourcing operations, for example doing application development for users in China and overseas - is certainly growing at phenomenal speed.
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This is a free site that helps learners of English. English4engineer comes to you from the my personal experience used to study English, to use English on work. Here in Russia English is very essential skill required for engineer to get good job.  To help you improve!
- English communication
- Technical English - How to write instruction and thesis
- Technical English Glossary
- Give more effective presentations in English
- Contribute more effectively to meetings held in English
- Use English effective on the phone with more confidence
- Use English effective in emails and letters with style and accuracy
- Deal with customers and colleagues in English with more skill
Go to our Effective English section. To use in daily work!
Useful collection of resource which helps you in daily work:
- On-line dictionaries
- On-line translators
You can use these tools free in your daily work.
To know how to find courses and get certificates!
- English Certificates
- English Exams
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English Courses
How do you learn English?
How does someone learn a new language such as English? Fundamentally, the process is very, very simple:
- Pick a topic you are interested in (for example, computer sience or cinema)
- Listen to native speakers, again and again and again
- Identify words and phrases you don’t know, and find out what they mean
- As you learn more, start to read and write in English
- Talk to native English speakers and learn even more
- Measure your progress continually
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Languages in literature
The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Own...what you can carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people."
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Edmund Morris
Roosevelt and his wife are traveling in Europe.
"Moving on through Austria and Bavaria, the young man (Roosevelt) had opportunity to exercise his linguistic abilities, translating German into Italian for the benefit of the carriage driver, and both into English for the benefit of Alice (his wife)."
Modern Library Edition 2001 Page 129
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Last updated: Feb 2013