today I wanted to talk about a completely different topic. still, because I received two comments already regarding the fact that my blog is in english I thought about laying out a different issue . so today the thing I ask you to consider is languages!
we all know that in the past 10 years english gained a well deserved place as a world wide spoken language. so, to clear things up with everyone out there: this blog is in english because I hope people of other nationalities will read it! having that cleared out I can go on...
so what is the first thing that strikes us when entering a foreign country? except for the view of course. it's the language! and how many times you felt intelectually challenged because you found yourself in the impossibility to communicate? don't you just love it, when that someone else you are talking to speaks a language you can understand? english happens to be that other language for the greatest percent of the world's population. you'll hear it in Europe, Asia, Africa, Astralia, Northern America and sometimes in Latin America as well.
most people, at least in my country, think that if you abuse of the use of english, you are being snobbish. so not true! when you have to deal with so many english speakers you find yourself incapable to think in your native language at a certain point. of course it would be dumb and full of bad taste thing, to address to someone you know doesn't speak the language in english, but if you talk to people who do speak it, why bother? why not practicing, huh?
besides, this is not about english. this is about any other language one speaks as a foreign language except for his mother tongue. it makes things easier for people as communicators. my opinion is that everyone should set a goal as to study one more foreign language. could be any language. and it would be even better if it would be something different than english. why? because there is this big tendency, as I said in the begining, to use english as a world wide language. this will lead eventually to globalization at a linguistic level. it is a good thing as long as it does not 'kill' the other languages. each country has its own culture and this culture is partly expressed by language. I think one country's individuality should be preserved but at the same time we should be able to communicate with any person from another country without any problems. and if english gained this status, what the heck? Let's speak it ladies and gentlemen from all over the world! gute nacht! buona notte! jo estet! buenas noches! noapte buna!(and that sums up the languages I speak :P)
2 comments:
i have nothing to comment :D
but i love to post here :)))
GLOBALIZATION. now this is the word... it's BIG, it's HERE, and no one can do anything about it. English... because of the power, the brits had and still have control over great land-spans and therefor over many people. Colonies at first, and now USA, Australia and other... "free" countries all over the globe. of course if the russians would have been more aggressive the the americans, and wealthier, this would be in russian no doubt. i have nothing against english or any other language, it just represents a way to communicate with others, in reality things will slip away towards a common language and the others will be forgotten in time because this new language will be imposed in administration and will have a grater number of "users", like the indians in north america.
However this pushes ignorance further among the people of this "global" society, and a new set of social values will be found. This is seen even in our days, rapidly progressing, paving the way for the "Global Union".
unfortunately in the long term it is inevitable the disappearance of the smaller languages like romanian, hungarian or bulgarian for example
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