People have always learned languages; since we don't all have the same native tongue. It is a way to make relations, to broaden our view. People learn language for different reasons. Some do, because they like it. Perhaps they want to get to know people who speak that language. Nowadays, as a side effect of globalization, it's getting more important than ever. However, we could see a change in the way that we learn. Speaking has moved into the front.

In the old days if one wanted to learn a language, then the first thing to do was to buy a book and a vocabulary. Then they began with memorizing the different grammar points with a few easy words. They could hardly mumble something, but they wrote beautiful letters in the shape that the language required. Normal people traveled little and exchanging letters with someone living in a...