My English story. Hello everyone! This is my first note here. I decided to make it about my history of learning English, as it is advised in the column “Note ideas”. Firstly we have met at school. Here I should say that I’ve studied at school only for girls with extra studying of foreign languages, in my case English. And I was lucky to get in the class of the best teacher at our school. All of us had 7-9 lessons of language a week. It’s a big number, but without proper approach everything can be useful. Thanks to her, by the time of graduating I had an Upper-Intermediate level. We did everything – made dialogs, essays, watched movies, studied advanced vocabulary, had thematic games, even ordered special textbooks (McMillan) and made plays in English for the whole school. Also I was rather good at Russian literature and even took part in region Olympiad. It was very exciting, but by the end I was tired from all this humanitarian stuff, from language, poems, novels, etc. So when the time to choose future specialization had come, I wanted smth not connected with language. After all I didn’t have problems with English anywhere. But the main thing after this was that I didn’t need to use English neither at the university, no at work. Until now. Last year I got a job where English is one of the main requirements. It is connected with antidumping investigations (as I’m an economist, it’s right what I need), all the information should be set in one of WTO languages. We also have some international delegations from time to time. And when I started to use language nowadays I realized that some rules and phrases that I used to know just disappeared. That’s why I need to refresh my knowledge of English, to fulfill vocabulary and erase some grammar mistakes. My first mini essay is over. :)