At first I started learning English because I had English classes at school, I was eleven at the time and obviously I had no command of the language whatsoever. For the next few years my English hardly improved, I did just enough work on English to not get stuck in the same class, it would be embarrassing to fail at English. When I was a teenager I finally decided to start learning english but this time for real. Half a year later I was only getting A grades. What prompted me to actually learn the language. There were multitude of reason. For starters learning a foreign language actually improves your cognitive abilities even outside of speech related tasks. But the most important thing to me was the ability to tap into the huge amount of knowledge-base that is often unavailable in polish. The next thing on the list is entertainment. I'm not really fond of subtitles and I absolutely detest movies dubbed by single reader.
When a pretty girl is talking I want to hear her velvet voice and not the voice of some man. A proper dubbing goes a long way to make the movie enjoyable, though. Unfortunately good dubbing is hard to come by. Then there is the subject of employment, speaking English can give you an edge over the competition who maybe otherwise as good as you. Speaking of english certificates, I decided to get one to make myself look better in the CV. What certificate employers consider to be the most desirable?