By Guest Blogger, Auxane- Crest Work Experience Student
We are all here for the same things, learning to speak English, but the real question is why we are here?
English as you know is an international language and I’m sure most of you have the ambition to get a good job later. You are right that learning English will help you in your career and putting “excellent knowledge of English” on your CV is an advantage.

However to get a good job is maybe not the only benefit to learn English! With this language you can also get a real access to knowledge that maybe you never thought of.
What are you interested in your life? Is it science? Music? Computers? Health? Business? Sports? Technologies? Movies?
Today’s media — such as the Internet, television, and the press — give you almost unlimited access to knowledge about your favourite subjects. After all, we live in the information age, don’t we? There’s only one problem. Most of this knowledge is in English. If you don’t trust in the information that you are watching in your country, it doesn’t matter: go to a channel website like BBC, CNN, NBC or Sky News and you can have access to all the big recent events in the world.
In addition you can communicate with people throughout the entire world; it’s not for no reason than we call English “the language of communication”. About 1,500,000,000 people in the world speak English. Another 1,000,000,000 are learning it like you!
Or do you like to travel? Speaking English is the most important thing to pack in your luggage!
To conclude, I will ask you one thing: please stop watching English movies without original voices of actors! You take out an important part of the talent of the actor.
Next step for me? First I will continue learning English and maybe, if the Force is with me, I will start Chinese!