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Debate:Should students learn a foreign language? (view source)
Revision as of 20:47, May 30, 2011
, 20:47, May 30, 2011no edit summary
haha english is one of the most complex languages on earth (at least, that is spoken regularly)and many people dont have the time to be able to learn it. If a universal language is your goal better to go with somthing like esperanto, which was specifically designed to be easy to learn and be a universal language--[[User:CainR|CainR]] 12:47, 20 January 2010 (EST)
haha english is one of the most complex languages on earth (at least, that is spoken regularly)and many people dont have the time to be able to learn it. If a universal language is your goal better to go with somthing like esperanto, which was specifically designed to be easy to learn and be a universal language--[[User:CainR|CainR]] 12:47, 20 January 2010 (EST)
English Grammar is immensely complex, therefore making it difficult to learn. Look at the UN's official Languages: Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, English, French and Russian. Variants and dialects of these languages are spoken all over the globe and by most of the population. However, in terms of pure population, the three most important languages beside English would be Chinese, Hindi/Urdu and Spanish, as these alone are spoken as a mother tongue by approx 2.5 billion people.
Also, languages relate to specific subjects. People studying music require a rudimentary understanding of Italian, For Lawyers, it is French. Latin and Greek relate to not only Classical Literature and History, but to all aspects of science and medicine. So these languages should at least be touched on during tertiary education. As someone who's been brought up speaking/learning various languages, it's good for children to be able to communicate; because there's a whole lotta world out there.