Recently, our world has several manias, such as
beatlemania where some teenagers
arehisterically screaming and crying, or other mania such as sport
mania, it is about getting a ball into a net or religious mania. there's rapture, there's weeping,there's
visions.Manias can be good.Manias can be alarming.Or manias can be deadly. But
now we have a new mania, it is learning English. This video also shows how
chinese students practice English, by screaming it. English is spoken in all
counties over the world, In Latin America,in India,in Southeast Asia,and most
of all, in China.If you're a Chinese student,you start learning English in the
third grade, by law.That's why this year,China will become the world's largest
English-speaking country.
The question is,
why English?? In a single word: opportunity.Opportunity for a better life, a
job,to be able to pay for school, or put better food on the table. The speaker also said
that when someone want to take a giant
test, they prepare it well in English because Twenty-five percent of
her/his grade is based on English, and
80 million high school Chinese studentshave already taken this test.
So is English
mania good or bad?Is English a tsunami, washing away other languages?Not likely.English
is the world's second language.Your native language is your life.But with
English you can become part of a wider conversation —a global conversation
about global problems,like climate change or poverty,or hunger or disease.The
world has other universal languages.Mathematics is the language of
science.Music is the language of emotions.And now English is becoming the
language of problem-solving.Not because America is pushing it,but because the
world is pulling it.So English mania is a turning point.
For short,
English represents hopefor a better future —a future where the world has a
common languageto solve its common problems.
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