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why is english taught in our schools?
| It is the precursor to a single global language. French built on the foundations of Roman Latin, and English is building for whatever language follows next.
Personally, my money is on Mandarin Chinese.
| >>532022
You sure about that? Chinese has moon runes that are hard af to learn. The pronunciation is also hard to figure out.
Not that English itself isn't ridiculous, but latin script is at least more widely used.
And, just a personal opinion, but Chinese and English don't mesh well. I don't think the future global language will be a mix of these two.
| I don't think they have to mesh well. And han ain't so difficult, all it takes is a fuckton of time to learn it. It has difficult voicing though. When you look up characters they always have mei3 or xi4 cause there's mei1 and 2 and stuff. English is easier to get in to that's for sure. We won't see the change of lingua franca in our lifetimes though.
| English is already well established.
Want to read scientific reaserch? It is most likely available in English.
In need of manual book/tutorial? It is in english.
What's the current most popular movie/TV show/song? It is in english.
Don't like normie stuff and want to watch anime? Too bad japanese is harder to learn and the english sub/dub is available.
| because we fucking speak english
| >>532019 If English is native where you live; to pass down literature, proper grammar + diction, and to foster the mother tongue to further connect with your peers.
If English is not native; because English has become one of the world's most common languages due to conquests by the British. English has emerged as a language that is useful for abroad due to this.
| Also, it's kinda easy to learn
| >>532076
Is this true tho? I learned English early, so it's like nothing now, but when I reverse engineer it English has a shitton of exceptions and weird rules and wacky pronounciation and so.
I weep for those who first learn English when they're an adult.
| Have you ever seen a doujin in chinese?
Never liked how the chinese writing looks in them. I always try to find the japanese version, because is nicer to look, or the english one, if I want to know what they are saying.
| >>532118
Any language is hard to learn when it's not your native/mother language, and you're learning it as an adult.
And all language have weird rules and exceptions that catches learners off guard. Take Japanese for instance:
今: now (ima)
日: day (hi)
You may think the two of them combined is 'imahi', but it's actually 'kyou' and that means 'today'. It's not a weird rule, but it's weird when your first language is English.
| Any language is hard to learn yeah, but not all languages are as easy to learn I'd say.
Surely there has been some sort of study where a group of people that didn't know Chinese or English learn both languages and report which was more difficult to learn.
This is kinda veering away from what OP asked, but I don't have any new input on the original question.
| >>532169
All languages are hard to learn esp. across culture, but some are easier than others.
I can only speak for what I know, but
Indonesian has clear simple rules and a small vocabulary. It's used as lingua franca in an archipelago where every area has their own language, so it kinda evolves to be easy to learn.
(of course as a result the Indonesian you hear in the streets is a wacky hodgepodge with no clear rule, but that's just how it goes)
| ... Huh, now that I think about it, English is also evolving to be simpler, with regional wackiness.
| >>532185
Have you been to Britain? You literally have people speaking in accents and different terms mostly taught environmentally. Sure, in written and formal form it may be the same, but English isn't just 'one thing' in most countries speaking it natively.
And that's just within the British Isles. I'm not going to talk about how it is in the States.
| >>532231
Yeah, that's the thing. Regional versions will always exist and will always be messy, but I feel the English that's used internationally will become simpler.
Maybe one day this Global English will be distinct enough that it's a second language for everyone.
| 很显然楼主一定是国人
随着全球化的发展英语已经不再是奢侈品而是必须品了
| English is spoken around the globe in all time zones. Only French, Spanish and Russian can compete with that.
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| why is it so important to learn it
(obviously not fishing for answers so i could finish my homework)