Are You an English Speaker?

Well, if you can read this post you’re probably an English speaker. If not fluent, you may know how important it is to speak this language nowadays. But I’d like to propose a reflection about 3 issues concerning English:

1. Do you have any idea about how many countries in the world have English as the official language?

2. Do you know that there are different English accents?

3. Have you ever reflected about the purposes why Brazilians should learn English?

First, this video (with a funny song) will show you 30 countries in our globe where people have English as their first language.

Get more about it here! http://englishenglish.com/english_facts_3.htm 

Secondly, because there are some many different countries that have English as their mother language, English is spoken with different accents worldwide. 

ACCENT: the way in which people in a particular area, country or social group pronounce words (Cambridge Dictionary).

Thus, do not get frustrated if you think you don’t understand a word when you land in one of these countries or even if native people seem not to understand a word of what you’re saying. Calm down, breath, and ask them to repeat slowly or do it if someone doesn’t understand you. Humans tend to try to explain the same things differently automatically, so everybody is safe, just DO NOT PANIC!

Finally, why should people learn English in Brazil? I could list thousands of reasons, but here are some:

Get access to knowledge – great sources of knowledge are mostly published in English. So if you want to get smarter, you’ve got to read foreign productions.

Communicate with people – great people speak English. Yes, influent people who want to be connected with other people around the world need to speak English. Good network? You’d rather speak English.

Push your career forward – in Brazil like in other countries where English is not the official language, speaking this language is essential to be part of any companies or even to achieve higher positions inside the one where you work. In some cases, it’s essential that you speak English to keep your own position.

Enjoy art like never before – a great number of really good TV productions, for instance, is in English. Therefore, having a good knowledge of the English language is crucial to understand them. The same apply to books and music.

English is easy to learn – compared to Portuguese, English has very simple structures, although its pronunciation has great differences compared to our language.

Get satisfaction – learning English is not status in our society anymore. It’s an important need. However, when we become able to understand and communicate in this second language, we feel a wonderful satisfaction.

 

Get more about it here! http://www.antimoon.com/other/whylearn.htm