Wednesday, November 17, 2010
The future status of English as the global language is assured
english as the global language
Today most of the people think of English as the global language. It is said that 1.8 billion people speak English. Even in French or Japan, where there are a lot of people who don’t want to use it, the number of English speaker has been increasing. So here is a debate whether English should be a global language or we should have global language. Although some people disagree with that tendency for some reasons, we should have the global language and in the long run it would give us benefits.
Opponents of English as the global language claim that English would destroy cultures. They think that if English is used mainly in non English-speaking countries, they will lose their culture with their own language because they are well-connected. But I think to be able to speak other language, our feelings that we belong to our country would get strong, because if you touch other culture by using English you would often start to think of your own culture at the same time. Until we know other culture, we never know what our culture is, or after we understand other culture we start to notice how our culture is made. Moreover, we have intention to have self identity. Then noticing our culture we tend to make much of their own culture. So rather than lose culture, English make each culture more important.
Opponent also say that to start to use English in the company would make employee confused and then it is not efficient for companies. This is now often discussed in Japan
because a famous company, Uniqlo, started to use English as a official language in the company. It is true that a lot of people cannot catch up with the sudden change and efficiency might decline. But the fact is that the market in just one country has been shrinking and many people know that we have to see overseas markets. Also to negotiate, compete and win there, we cannot make it without English. So some confusion might happen for several years, but in the long run it give great advantage to company which will fight in overseas-market.
In conclusion, opponent look at just small part of result from using English as the global language. If you think of the future not near future, it would give us a lot of benefits.
The future status of English as the global language is assured
There are some reasons people think English will not be the global language. First, English is difficult to learn because the words change frequently. Second, except English-speaking countries, most people in the world don’t speak English in their daily life which means English is not used. Last, because of the economy of China is growing now, people think Mandarin (Chinese) will replace English and become the world language in the future. However, the change in English is in words not in grammar. Also, there are rules for word changing. As following these rules, it is not a big deal to learn English. Moreover, although most of the population of the world does not speak English, it is still considered as the common language which people can only communicate with when they speak different languages. Furthermore, it may be true that China will be the strongest country after and Mandarin will become an important language, but Mandarin will probably only become one of the global languages instead of replacing English as the global language.
Therefore, in my opinion, I agree with the future status of English as the global language is assured. Many people keep learning English because they consider English as the global language as well.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Practice 6
Monday, November 1, 2010
Two sports: Soccer and Swimming
The sports are an amusing way to stay healthy and fitness, it requires competition with oneself or with the other ones and to have a group of defined and specific rules .Is a good way to make exercise and get some fun too, people have a big variety of sports to practice such as: American Football, Tennis, Soccer , Swimming. But also, there are outstanding sports it is known as soccer and swimming. These can be too different and alike as well
One obvious difference is the field where people practice these sports. Soccer is played in a stadium and the players play with a ball also; the team is confirmed by eleven players. It is a sport played between two teams. In contrast, Swimming is practiced in a pool, the pool depends of the tournament, and it can be 50 m or 25 m.
Other areas of difference between Soccer and Swimming involve issues about competition that is, about tournaments, because Soccer has a lot of tournaments, it depends of the country or the continent for example, in South America there are different kinds of tournaments such as: Libertadores and Sudamericana Cup, in Europe there are another ones such as : Champions League, UEFA, SPL and the most important around the world known as World Cup is played every four years in different places in around the world. It join different countries and different cultures because is the most important tournament trough the history. In contrast, swimming spends less time in tournaments because this one depends of season, it has two major seasons. During the short course season, swimmers swim in 25 yard pools. This season lasts from September to the end of March. The long course season is swum in 50 meter Olympic pools and lasts from April to the end of August.
A final difference between these sports is the kind of clothing because in Soccer the players wear t-shirt, short and special shoes. And for Swimming everybody has to use swimsuit, swimming goggles and swimming cap. In many cases the type of clothing is useful when you practice special sports because it can help you to do it.
In spite of these differences, these two apparently opposite sports share some important contributions for the sports
Both, for example, the players should be in shape because they spend a lot of time play or something like that so the need to eat well. Both should have a good nutrition. It should be some portions of carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins and minerals and workout. The best soccer player or swimmer should be able to do everything inside of him or her team
Important similarity is that both sports are played by females and males so it is interesting because everyone can play if they want.
Swimming and Soccer: different, yet alike. Although the two sports differ in many areas such as fields, tournaments, the way to wear, they share more than one common contribution for the sports
living at home and living away from home
Would you like to live at home or live away from home? I think most of college students must choose to live away from home because this is the chance for them to run away from parents’ control. But for parents, if it is possible, they would like to let their children live at home. To live at home is totally different from to live away from home.
One of the differences is ‘freedom’. If you live at home, there is less freedom. For example, you need your parents’ permission if you want to hang out with friends till midnight. And most of time the answer is NO. However, if you live in your own apartment, you can go anywhere with friends at anytime without asking your parents. You are free because you are out of your parents’ control. Of course you must discipline yourself very well.
The other difference is that living away from home would help you learn how to be independent. You have to take care of yourself and you need to organize everything in you own life. There is no one you can rely on except yourself and this would make you become independent. However, if you live at home, everything is prepared for you. There are always foods, neat room, washed and ironed clothes and so on. You would always be the one who cannot live independently.
To live at home or to live away from home have both positive and negative attitudes. As long as you know how to make yourself live better, to decide whether live at home or away from is not a big deal for you.