Conquer English To Make China Strong, By Henry Hitchings

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Nowadays, traveling abroad is encouraged. Universities are encouraging students to travel abroad for a few weeks to a semester to even for a whole school year. Here at Buena Vista University, they strongly encourage traveling. They offer many different chances to travel abroad throughout the year. Many people have learned the language of the country that they are traveling to so they will be able to understand what is being said. In today’s times, one can travel overseas and find tons of people who can speak English and who have adapted to some of the English culture. While some countries are encouraging the people to learn English and the culture that comes along with it, other countries are trying hard not to adapt to the culture of English. …show more content…

With this, English is becoming more commonly used, not just as a foreign language to learn, but for education, medicine, and even diplomacy reasons. In his essay, when he was talking about the United Arab Emirates, hitching also mentioned that Arabic is their language for school, religion, home, and culture, whereas learning English over there is “symbolic of modernity, work, higher education, commerce, economics, and science and technology” (271). This associates English with a more advanced outlook if one would want to get a higher education or find better work. English is getting a name for itself and it is not a bad name. People are not just learning it for a class, they are learning it for business, higher education, and many more reasons around the world. Julie Traves mentioned in her essay that there are about 380 million people worldwide speaking English as their first language, whereas it is estimated that anywhere from 350 million to about 500 million people speak it as a second language. The English language is spreading throughout the world through education, science, technology, and the culture which is another reason why English is the best language to …show more content…

Education is widely spreading worldwide for people learning English. The reading of “Operation Mind Your Language” by Pallavi Polanki, he talked about the English language overseas in Afghanistan. The government in Afghanistan is working hard at trying to strengthen the English department at schools and colleges (290). It also talked about how the Afghan government is widely hiring English speakers to teach in the schools. English is becoming more widely used in Afghanistan as time goes on. Even though the English teachers can be at high risk at times, and some of the students are also at risk, it is still being taught. Polanki talks about how most of the teachers and students have chilling stories to tell if they are willing to talk about them. Polanki and Hitchings have the same concept in their essays. They both talk about how the English language is worldwide and how it influences many jobs. For Hitchings essay, it was talked about how English is in the education, medicine, and diplomacy in China. Polanki talks about how English affects the education in Afghan. The government is seeking professionals that speak English to be able to teach the language to younger or even older adults. As mentioned in the above paragraph, Traves talks about how one should know the culture when learning the foreign

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