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English is currently the world's common language. It's the international language of business, politics, and the Internet. About 400 million people speak English as a first language. And about a billion people are learning it today.

To learn any foreign language, we need motivation. Motivation is a desire and reason to do something. Here are some motivations for learning English given by university students in Japan.

"I want to speak fluently with many people." "I...