Hype Amongst Asians For Learning English
Different people have different languages. We all are brought up learning a certain language, the language of our family. We convey and understand through that same language we are born into. But with a person of different language, who cannot understand what you say and similarly you cannot understand what he speaks, the communication becomes impossible. Here comes the importance of learning different languages.
But did we ever hear about an interest of the masses in foreign language over their native language? Well we can certainly say this about the Asians interest in learning the language 'English'. If you see different reports and statistics, it shows the influence of English language there. It is becoming a trend in Asians to learn English as a language. Not to go abroad or visit English countries, but just to stay in competition in their own country.
Everything! From education, media, technologies, business etc is directly or indirectly connected to the language English. So you may call it a trend or an obligation, but it is a fact now among Asians. It will also be not incorrect to state that in most part of the Asia, many Asians prefer and use English as their primary language than secondary.
Hollywood is a big entity on earth and a major form of entertainment, even for the Asians! Now you may wonder what an entertainment industry has to do with the trend in learning of English language. Well when something in English becomes the biggest form of entertainment, it becomes the biggest influencing factor in learning of English.
Even if you see, most of the literature used in world for education is written in English. You can easily find books of science, medical, engineering, history and various other subjects mostly written in English language. So even in Asia, instead of translating all the literature in their native language, majority of education systems teach English language as compulsory for students since the beginning of their primary schooling up to their college.
So this competition amongst Asians for learning English language, throughout their education system, carries to their careers. Then jobs, businesses of various natures are seen to have English as there basis for communication. This trend even spread into the markets, where every ordinary person takes interest in learning English language or is even forced to learn it to survive as a competitive businessman in the market. Especially with the hype in all these technological devices, the cell phones, the gadgets, the tablets! One has to equip himself with its functioning and applications that are found mostly in English. So there is no stopping to this trend!
Countries like India, China and Pakistan have a huge population that learns, speaks, writes or understands English.
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