Important part of our lives | Essay | Oppgave | Engelsk

Innledning
More than one half billion people around the world have one thing in common: they speak English (53 countries). You are one of those people.

English helps you connect with other people and understand more about their backgrounds, feelings and points of view.

By learning English, you are also able to share your own thoughts, opinions and feelings with other English speakers.

Today people are not only connecting as citizens of a community, but also as netizens, members of online communities.

Throughout this text, we will discuss how the English language is an important part of our lives.

Utdrag
In the business world, communication is absolute – everywhere. This makes the English language more important.

It is a business-language that gives companies, governments and individuals the ability to communicate in their business.

Also, many, or most, formal letters are written in English. The negotiations become much easier across the globe in the effort to drive economies.

It also gives others the opportunity to make the translations (mother- English). However, the massive spreading has made many businesses adopt it in their operations.

The spread has led to loss of value of some indigenous languages and hence cultural fragmentation. As we may already know, languages are used to transmit values, laws and cultural norms, including taboos.

Since it expresses and reinforces culture, influences the personal identity of those living within the culture and creates boundaries of behavior.

When a language is changing the way, people behave in foreign countries, it becomes a problem.

People like you and me will forget the identities and specifics that were passed through word from parent to child through centuries.

This detachment will cause the stories and senses of specific cultures and ethnics to be lost. History will become a blur, an inevitable westernized average of everything mixed leaving us all culturally indistinguishable.

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Does speaking foreign languages make you more intelligent? Depends. Is the ability to speak another language part of the intelligence?

Not necessarily but being intelligent and knowing foreign languages do share one thing in common: they are both painful.

By painful, I don’t mean the ennui of tediously long lectures, vocabulary and grammatical studies or the expense of time for the pursuit of wisdom and knowledge.