Do you think English should be the official language of the

[$0 R3@L]

i don't think it has to necessarily be the "official language," but come on, let's get real, knowing english can be extremely useful. i think that has to do with american being the most powerful country in the world, lots of people from different countries, especially the poor ones, want to come to "the land of dreams" and whatnot.

it is a bit ignorant though when americans travel to different countries and expect people to know english. that's why so many people hate us

you speak as if the english dictionary was created in usa,when infact is was ENGLAND and you'd be shocked how people DONT wanna go live in america these days,England contains the most variety of cultures in the world and im proud of that fact.

[Hadez]

i agree with asp, you should know the language of the place ur livin. if u live in america, speak english. if you live in china, speak chinese. etc....

[$0 R3@L]

you speak as if the english dictionary was created in usa,when infact is was ENGLAND and you'd be shocked how people DONT wanna go live in america these days,England contains the most variety of cultures in the world and im proud of that fact.

i wasn't knocking england, i know english in fact came from the english people. lol.

and maybe you don't wanna come to america, and there's lot of people in different countries in europe that are perfectly happy in their environment, but there are a LOT of other people form poor countries that want to live in america. that's why there's a a big issue on border control, and people always have to worry about meeting people from different countries and being tricked into marrying them just so they can get a pass into the states. for example, i'm from the philippines and when you go there and tell them you're from america, they look up at you. people are required to know english there. it's taught in schools to all the kids as a second language. lots of countries are like that. they wanna come here and make a better life for themselves. why else is there such a huge diversity in america?

but anyway, that's a but off topic ...

yer

dont get me wrong i love america, im imigrating next year with my brother and his girlfriend to canada, so the country isnt all bad

But yer you should speak the main language of the country you currently call home,otherwise that shows people you dont intend to fit in with our culture and just creates a social barrier.

[,-,'-{Bar}-',-,]

my first holiday in spain, and i got my little book,i go up try to order couplle of cokes, ice lollies, crisps n stuff they guy gets out his little book and tried to translate my spanish into english

funniest shit ever (well i was like 14 or somehting at the time lmao)


really though, we learn leanguages go to there country and there busy learning our language so its just all confusing lmao

and nah i dont think everyone should speak english, would take too much away from countries who have there own languages, but eveyrone should have a basic understanding of english

[Tash8]

English is the world language, fuck what you guys have to say.. we all need to know one language and it shoudl be English, why? cuz if you say no, we'll kill you...

we have like united states, britain, canada[somewhat], australlia... and those alone are nough.

[codyp]

I think english should be the official language of england. In America we should speak American, its a much more simplified language where even if you don't say it right you know people got it so it isn't wrong. Bush is way ahead of me on this idea though.

[Flamez]

naw don't think it has to be the official language although i think its the easiest language to learn i only know english n' spanish lil bit of turkish n' french lol

[sinemm]

its not like "yes it/there shud be"

but its necessary to know the most known language on the world..

i know english my own lang.Turkish
n im tryin to learn German too

[AspirinE]

well. you are forgetting many factors.. like public school systems and literacy rates. some people are having a hard enough time learning correct "English"... who has time to learn another language.

i am american, i know 2 languages... and the 2nd one is one i didn't really care to learn. most colleges, if not all of them, require a person to have had some type of foreign language, and plus one must take courses while in college.

What i said was by no means an insult though, just so u know, coz im russian and russians are some what equal to US on the multi-language stats. But europeans are very multi-linguistic thats just a fact, itll take quite some years till the rest catch up to them in that area.

[DrRapid]

as a matter of fact english is only talked in a few countries but spanish is talked loads, around south america, caribbean and spain itself, also spanish was talked round the california area in USA but then they stopped cause some stuff happened.

I don't think english shud b the language everyone shud kno cause th language mostly spoken is chinese and the language now most spoken round the world is english.

i kno 3 languages and i'm learning a 4th one: Spanish, English and Catalan (Spain's other language out of 4). I'm learning French at school.

[4D]

As much as I should and sometimes do have a grudge against the English, I have to admit the language is something I love. It has the largest vocabulary in all of world languages, estimated at 990,000 words and definitions, and another 25,000 get added each year (I knew about that, just checked the stats on wiki). This makes it the most colourful expressive language on the planet. It's also something that comes very natural to me, and I've always loved playing with words, whether poetry, anagrams or countdown (UK viewers will know about that ).

I think Yoshi saying it is easy, might be a little hard to believe for some.

here's one example I like of the diversity and difficulty in English.

Deer - Animal
Dear - Expensive
Dear - Beloved
Dare - Challenge
There - In that place
Their - It belongs to them
They're - They are

Those seven words are all pronounced the exact same way, yet all mean different things and are all spelt differently. I think this could be very confusing for foreign people just starting off, and even for people with English as their first language.


As much as I like the English language, I don't think making it a world monopoly would be a good idea. People should keep their roots and culture. Ireland has almost lost it's native language. We have our own Irish channel, but there is only one area of the country that it's not rare to see it spoken in public. Which is a huge pity, but I can't complain because I never liked learning it in school either.

[yoshi]

I think Yoshi saying it is easy, might be a little hard to believe for some.

from my point of view, it is compared to German [God forbid lmao, i've been studyin for 7 years now and it still confuses me ] or Polish, which is hard to learn because of the declination, grammar, spelling and thousands of stupid, unncesarry rules, or Japanese with it's alphabet.. ok, let's just say it's relatively easy, but you don't need to get A on your CAE exam to communicate with the bartender if you want 2 beers and vodka.

personally, studying languages is great fun for me, that's why i took up Swahili. i don't think i'll ever need it here, but might come in handy during my exploration of the African Eastcoast rofl

[shady_aftermathzz]

nope, i think nepalese should be the official language of the world or if not chinese.....why the hell am i typing in english still.......suna suna kehi bhanna chahanchu, priti mathi priti ma gasna chahanchu, impressed? what ya'll say/
ma bad for ruining the serious debate....im out n' yeah seriously though, yeah of course english should be the official language of the world and it is already, aint it?

[Kez]

This is a stupid question.

It already is English, but that depends how you look at it. I mean, the countries that speak English as the ir official language are England and America. So being that they are 2 of the biggest countries in the world, if they spoke another language it'd be just the same, and people would be moaning about that being the "official language".Nothing is gonna change that, so there's no point bitching.
You speak another language? Fine, then go to a country that speaks that language. You speak English? Then come to the countries where they speak English. You wanna go to a country where they speak a different language to you? Learn the language. It's not complicated.

[shady_aftermathzz]

all fired up huh, cool down bru', take it easy, naw'saying?