Why do I need to learn English?
Por: Rodrigo S.
19 de Fevereiro de 2018

Why do I need to learn English?

The importance of english language nowadays.

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   Nowadays the question on why do we need to learn english is constantly taking our times. If you are not a native english speaker, you are always running into someone or someplace that is charging you about your english. Furthermore, the companies still are every time putting english like one of the requirements to hire new employees. Although we can realize the trend on this behavior, other times we can not understand why are they requiring it, if none inside the company is using it. Another question is: why english and no other language? Or still: why do I need english if in my country nobody can talk with me in english? Why do I need it? Therefore, back and forth we are asking ourselves why do we need to know english.

   Firstly, it is important to know that this is not a large conspiracy. The reason of the world requiring english from all of us, is neither because USA is the dominant country in the world nor because after the growth of capitalism the world has suffered an americanization. The USA is a superpower country and there are many american trends in the world. However, we need to remember that was United Kingdom that had spread the english language in the world. Thus, during ancient times when United Kingdom had colonized continents, they spread the language to several places including Scotland, Ireland, USA, Canada, Australia, some Caribbean countries, New Zealand, South Africa, part of South Asia and India, some countries at West and East Africa, and South Pacific. The British colonialism took place during 17th and 18th centuries and was an important event to turn english into a decisive language, due to the english spread to countries with potential to grow up.  

   Secondly, during 18th and 19th centuries United Kingdom was the leader of the Industrial Revolution. Therefore, it was necessary a language to dominate the industrial spread, and automatically the powerful country (British at first and USA after) tend to dominate the universal tongue. Thus, english turned into a business language and with the advance of USA during 20th century, english as a language was established as a commerce language. Although there are many countries with power in some trades, there is a tendency to set an unique language to standardize the operations and facilitate the business communication. Moreover, the USA economical and political dominance boosted with the technological advance perceived nowadays with devices having english as a dominant language, concentrate still more power around english. So, the computer revolution during the 20th century has still spread english on softwares and applications. To cut a long story short, who tends to dominate the trade (business and economy) tends to overpower the idiom.

   Third, as well as english has been dominating the trade and technological world, it is easy to notice like important factors in our societies are dominated by english language. For instance, english dominates movies, series, cartoons and universal entertainment on TV, theater or devices. English also dominates music, being used in countries like an alternative tongue. Moreover, the culture of advertising comes from countries that have english as language. International travel and safety has been standardized in english with many signs and warnings in english. Furthermore, the educational trend nowadays is to use english as first or second idiom. So, english has been used within educational system (class and publications) like the main language in several countries that do not have english as the native tongue. Therefore, we could put here several other examples of english increasing in importance inside the world.

   Concluding, seems unavoidable to consider english like a pivotal language to know nowadays. Even though sometimes some people have been overstating the importance of english in our daily lives, seems factual that be successful and be prepared to the future means among other facts, know english and has the ability to communicate and utilize english daily. Albeit now perhaps you can not perceive the importance of english in your life, it is likely that in the future the focus will turn around. Therefore, the world will carry on doing business in english, the use of english in technology and education will go on, and every day the world will keep on moving with people employing english as an universal language.    

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Rodrigo S.
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Especialização: Certificação internacional TOEFL e IELTS (TOEFL e IELTS)
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