English. One language so widely spread. It's the third language with more users globally and is mandatory in lot of countries as a second language at basic education level. A lot of scientific material and global politics are done in English. Sadly the means to achieve and maintain that are questionable, with colonization and imperialism being the most notorious ways, even at this day. We can't take the cultural and historical influence out when talking or studying a language, they're part of a whole and to learn a language is to get an insight into another cultures and another ways of life.
Without overlooking all those aspects and faults that English has we can also talk about the language as a tool to communicate: ideas, dreams, stories, thoughts, discomforts and everything that makes us human and alive. It gives us the wonderful opportunity to interact with people that can be on the other side of the Earth, to know about far away lands and different customs and traditions.
Taking two hours a class, three days a week, at night and having Friday evenings booked for four months seems a bit excessive just to learn how to write better in English, but written words are powerful.
Personally, for me everything started as a chore. At elementary school, with a kind teacher drilling for days the colors and numbers to a group of rowdy, messy six years olds. That trend continued to my preteen years when music was a true incentive to pay at least more attention in class. It wasn't until junior year in high school when I started trying to read stories at the Internet and playing videogames in English that I really took those classes seriously and even started to study on my own.
Now, six years later all that studying payed off at my college courses where a lot of the material available is in English and I didn't struggle to read, just to understand the concepts, I can play videogames and read books that have not been translated yet and even make friends with people in Philippines.
My relationship with English started as a necessity, an imposed obligation from the system that evolved into the ability to resonate and have fun with another humans. Now I take official classes to reach an standard that will help me in my professional career and maybe, in a future, not only read about other cultures but, having a real taste of them, seeing all those places with my own eyes and making more friends.Worthy of sacrificing six hours a week and my Fridays for a few months.
It all begins with our predisposition and will to reach our goals 🙌
ResponderBorrarPredisposition can really help once you start something ike learning a new language
BorrarAnd then you realized that 6 hours inverted on studying English would definetely worth it! 🤗
ResponderBorrarI feel like like they are really worth it
BorrarIt seems a lot of time, but also can be fun!
ResponderBorrarYou're right, learning can be fun!
BorrarI do like your writing, it would be fairly interesting if we analyze deeper the reasons of how indispensable English is.
ResponderBorrarYeah! Sacrificing ours Fridays must mean that we really want to improve our writing (and also that we are rarely invited to drink hahaha)
Thanks! I think we can analize the importance of English in our lives fo a good while.
BorrarAnd I'd like to think is only because I want to improve my wirting but you are right, it's not like I go out a lot too
Learning another language could be complicated sometimes, that is mainly because a language represents a different culture and history that often is difficult to understand but at the same time, it helps us to connect with them and the people around the world. So keep pushing, all the time invested will be worth it.
ResponderBorrarAll we need is one reason to start taking action on our knowledge. It's curious how almost everything starts by a necessity, and ends being done by pure passion or fun.
ResponderBorrarI liked a lot your writing, and I look forward to read more about what you have to say.
Motivation is the key I think, can be a silly one but if it helps us to keep going it's important. Having fun really helps me to learn.
BorrarThank you for your compliment.
I think all of us or at least the majority of us start studying English as an imposition and not because we really wanted it. As we grow up, We realized the benefits that we can obtain by learning it and, as you mentioned, if you study an other language, not only English, you can learn about other cultures, meet other people, visit other countries and have an integral experience in which you can immerse yourself in the daily life of the people who live there, the cultural activities offered and why not, the gastronomy; and of course, the things people always told us, English will help you to get a better job or to have better opportunities of studying outside the country.
ResponderBorrarI am agree with you Karen. I think it is very important know another languages for understand the tool that you are talking too. I think that you need to stay with your mother languague but you neet to imporve your intellectual capacity with another languague. And the english it is one of many, a very important.
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