Pro English: Pro English As A Global Language

Pro English as A Global Language At this very moment, you might be sitting and munching on something. I’m also guessing that you know how to read and speak the English language. So, what are your thoughts about the English language? Is it nice, easy, or simply boring? Are you forced to speak English? These are easily answered questions. Though, the real question is, how would you feel about English becoming a global language? Many people already know it, so might as well make it a global language. Also, English has the audacity to allow an effortless communication between diverse cultures. Even though many native languages will be affected by it in multiple ways, mainly in a negative way, English should be encouraged all around the world as

English has the power to make communication much easier across different countries that have different cultures, hence different languages. In same interview conducted by Seham Kawthar, the interviewee states that English is a way interact with other people from different countries which you don’t know their language. The reason why the interviewee learned English was because many people knew how to speak English. Knowing English, one can communicate with other people wherever they go because English is spoken in a lot of countries. In Dennis Baron’s article called “The Tongue Who Would Be King,” that was published in Science and Spirit Newspaper in the year 2011, English has an official status in few colonies such as Nigeria, India, and many more countries around the world. It is used as a third language in order for people to communicate with each other from different cultures (p. 32). This is true because it can be in many places. Many friends tend to communicate to each other because they don’t know each other’s languages. Having English as a global language would not require any translations, similar to the pre-Babel days, where everyone spoke one language (p. 32). When everyone knows one common language, it makes it much easier to speak to each other. English is said to make communication easier amongst people just like the Latin language once did (p.33). For instance, English is used to communicate between diplomats and politicians from different countries to come to terms and world