life help: I don’t know whether anyone else has thought this, but why does everybody who wants to get on in life have to learn english? - Help.com

Because it is the most diversified language. The most used is manderin Chineese. lol. I don’t care if you don’t learn english, but if you are coming to North america, you better **** well learn it. Lol, (sorry if that applies to you)

Because its a business language. You would do well to learn German too.

Sorry to burst the Manderin score as it was over taken by spanish a couple of years ago.

I wish English wasn’t. Maybe German? Then it would give me more incentive to learn it. (I am trying!)

I’ve studied Spanish, too. That one would be okay as well!

Nice to see you haven’t mashed the language by writing like trolls. I love English we have so many different ways to describe things, and the slang is pretty spectacular.

mmm i wish i hadnt been born english first.
id love to know other language. but i am so so bad at learning new skills. i have no patience.

well.. we kind of are. two major powers in the world use english as their main language.

its just the way it is.

but for business, it is recommended you know at least one other language.

but, we are, economically and socially.
i think all countries would say theyre superior to everyone else.

but what makes you think that these countries wanna get involved in things that are happening? take china for example. noone is doing a dam thing about that, because they dont need the hassle. theyd rather appease china, keep them sweet.

bookworm15 wrote:
But why should everybody else have to learn english, why can’t we make an effort to learn mandarin or spanish?

Cause we’ve got the nuclear bombs lol. Just kidding, idk. Everybody will want other people to learn their language, so we will never have just one language.

bookworm15 wrote:
Exactly, we think we’re superior like any other country, but we seem to be the only country who won’t learn anything new, we expect others to change for us, not meet them half-way.

We meet them halfway, we have interpreters… lol. It’s not like we are demanding people to learn it if they aren’t living in the U.S.

The main reason that English is quite a powerful language is because the rich and powerful were sent and continue to send thier children to places like Oxford, Cambridge, Yale and Harvard.

I don’t think all English speakers are arrogant. Alot of people attempt to learn any language that they are holidaying in.

smoogie. wrote:
I don’t think all English speakers are arrogant. Alot of people attempt to learn any language that they are holidaying in.

2 years of foreign language is required to make it into 90% of colleges, so we almost all know a little lol

Maybe we can change the world here and decide on a different language.

I vote for German!

LOL (not at the German part)

Your not being stupid. You just haven’t travelled enough yet. Its not like the costa del sol everywhere.hahahaha.

Have you seen the advert for jelly sweets on tv at the moment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnH1RC…
Please watch. Very funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXU9Ur…
Then theres this one.

Very interesting post and I too don’t understand why so many English people are against learning a foreign language. If you go to other countries like Germany or France, many of the people there know English as well as their own language.

elysium wrote:
Very interesting post and I too don’t understand why so many English people are against learning a foreign language. If you go to other countries like Germany or France, many of the people there know English as well as their own language.

I don’t think too many “English” people here are against it.

Maybe most just don’t bother because so many others are learning English.

I think I’m just speaking for the people that live where I live. Not many of them are keen on learning the new language, probably because of the reason you mentioned.

I dont’ know about the USA but in Canada alot of schools have their students taking at least core french, and theres also aot of kids taking emmersion. I stated speaking french when I was 4, and there were alot of other kids who took it with me so I don’t think it’s not that people aren’t trying to learn a second language. Is there French Immersion in the US? I don’t really know much about your school system, but you guys are lucky enough to be able to take spanish or german, here we only get french, so I think that if you guys have options then you must be trying.

it’s just as hard for us to learn other languages as everyone else

its just lots of countries speak english