Don't insist on English!

Patricia Ryan: Don’t insist on English!

The speaker talks about language loss and the globalization  of English. She tell a story about her friends who was teaching English for adult in Abu Dhabi, one day she took them to learning some nature vocabularies, but she ended up her class, because all named in arabics word for local plants. How the student get all knowledge about it? of course from their grandparents, they preserved it. but today languages are dying every 14 days.

She recruited by British council to teach English in Kuwait, because the government wanted to modernize the country and empower the citizens through education. Today, she see the morphed of teaching english, from being a mutual benificial practice to becoming massive international business. The best educations are the university in U.K and U.S. naturally, everyrbody wants to have English education, but if we not native speaker we have to pass a test. Needing english in conducting research, also as important reason, because we need to reed book and journal that have written in English. The high cost of English test can be prohibitive for poor people. Why people would focus in english? Because everyone wants to get the best chance in life. But a story about two  english scientists that were doing an experiment to with genetics forelimbs and hind limbs of animal, the results don’t show differences, and a germanic scientist said that the genetics did has differentiate but they just use two name. If you can’t think a thought, you’re stuck. But if another language can think that thought then by coorperating, we can achieve and learn so much more. Mind your language, use it to spread great ideas.