My relationship with English First, I want to talk about my relationship with English. Our acquaintance took place still at school, and all at once did not go very well. We studied according to some kind of experimental program, when language learning begins not with the alphabet and reading rules, but with memorizing words, and it was not allowed to write down transcription and translation. As a result I could not learn to read in English for a long time. English was always my second foreign language. The first and favorite was French. You know, how a second language is taught, even in language universities. The teachers change frequently, and mostly they're not the best. The role of the teacher is certainly very important. For example, I was very lucky with the French teachers. And I had a very good English teacher in my first year. But as for me, I did not strain too much. For some reason I have never loved English very much and I don't exert myself by studying it. I think this is partially due to America's omnipresent influence and the constant presence of English in our lives. I was driven by a feeling of contradiction. Everyone says that English is essential for work, travel and life in the modern world. But I tried to learn at least a little the language of the country I am going to, than to tighten up English. After graduation I worked as a French teacher for several years. When I changed jobs, I didn't give up French. Besides, I began to independently learn Italian and Spanish. But I completely abandoned English. I hadn’t studied English for so many years that I already thought that I had completely forgotten it. But now when I started learning English again, I realized that I remember a lot, everything just went into passive, the vocabulary is not active. It's especially difficult for me to speak English. So, after a long time, when it was necessary to choose a language for language practice, I did not choose French, or Italian, or some other language, it was English that I wanted to study. I returned to it as to a good friend. And I regret now that I neglected him for so long.