Writing Paper: Part 2
Task type: Article

Question
You have seen the following competition in an magazine for young people.

Write your article for the magazine (around 120-180 words).

Learning foreign languages is necessary nowadays because the world works like an international community and is important to know how to communicate with each other.{1}

I come from Brazil and I speak portuguese {2} as my native language. However I can speak a litlle {3} bit of spanish as well.

First of all foreign languages can be very useful when you are abroad on holidays and when you need to speak with people from other nationalities. Secondly the internet have {4} information in all kinds of language but most of it is in english and also is good to have friends in other countries and try to communicate with them by email. Finally if you want to work in the business sector or in many others like tourism you must know at least others languages appart {5} from your own.

But not all is perfect{6}. Even that {7} learning is so important, it is not easy to become a master in a language or to start speaking fluently. What is more, {***} {8} is dificult {9} to maintain a lot of new things in your head especially when you are young (I know this because I'm 16).Other {10} thing that is important to raise is that the costs to learn another language are very expensive{***} {11} therefore {***} is not everybody that can afford it.

I think it is very important to learn a different language because {***} {12}will help you a lot in the future when you are looking for a job. It's also a good idea to start learning when you are young when you don't need to worry with {13} adult things like: bills, job, house & etc and {***}is very interesting to learn other cultures and customs from other countries.