What the English language means to me is that it represents freedom and democracy. It also represents the language of business, because most business deals throughout the globe is primarily spoken in English.
It has been said that English is the most difficult language to learn, whether you agree with this statement is a matter of opinion, but with are past perfect predicate sentences, words that sound the same but are spelled differently, double negatives, and so on and so forth it's easy to understand why immigrants to this country would have trouble understanding and speaking the English language. In fact, many native born English speakers have trouble speaking English, its no wonder that Agosin preferred to write Spanish instead of English. I know personally when i went to the Philippines to visit some friends of mine over there, they were ashamed to speak English to me for fear that i would not be able to understand them as well, but in fact i was able to understand 90 percent of what they were trying to articulate to me and when i read Tans piece that same point was brought out as well.
To conclude, English to me is the language of the world, a language that most people speak or are learning to speak. It is the language of trade and commerce and also of travel.
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Interesting that you brought in a personal example of the Phillipines visit in relation to the articles we read. That can be a reinforcement for your point and response. Nice job.
That is interesting and i agree that English is the language of the world. Very good point
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