YET, eng native speakers are predicted to decline in the future due to a huge surge for newcomers such as the burgeoning Chinese language and maybe in the near future, Hindi and Arabic. Spanish importance is also expected to rise, and right now the native speakers of Spanish have exceeded English.

This post has been edited by europology: Jan 7 2007, 03:13 AM

language matters jack in development, attitude is the main factor.

I can't leave. This is the best local forum that I had ever visited. I will miss the Bulk Section, Garage sales, and Audiophiles subforums.


Lover, why don't you try going to the real world issue section now? It's awesome back then, but recently it is filled with spams and useless posts that i find the threads tiring and boring to read. Although i cannot deny that one or two gems appear once in a while.

oh yah....i heard about the spanish too.... and it seems like french is going to be left out in the near future? dunno how true is it?

if this happens, spanish will become lingua franca for united states of america, instead of english.

sometimes, being able to speak in spanish allows you to find the hot latino chicks.

This post has been edited by quintessential: Jan 7 2007, 05:49 PM

hola senorita!

eleh.

u guys should learn portuguese! brazil is the plastic surgery capital of the world! u can mengorat adriana lima summore!

currently l felt annoyed with the government......working on "Memartabatkan Bahasa Melayu".....as long as malay live...there is no way for bahasa to hilang that easily....

what?

bahasa can simple implode on its own if users insist on using bahasa rojak. the thing about memartabatkan BM is about the preservation of using the original, proper and contextual language. how many people use BM properly? do u?

memartabatkan BM is not about race, my friend. language can easily dissolve especially from outside influence. look at singapore. how many malays know how to speak BM anymore? look at indonesia. how much Bahasa Indonesia is the original, without the influence of Bahasa Jawa?

without preservation, it will loose out.

yaa...you do?....missed called or panggilan tidak terjawab.....toilet or tandas....did hello included in the malay dictionary.....answer?

ur point being....?

I dont even know how to converse before in english, but can read well, i memorized a script for an interview for a customer svc post, and now tada! i can converse in english very well, spontaneous.. customer svc is a very good job to brush up your tongue..

The one good thing now about our education system is that... they've changed Maths & Science to english!!! Wheeee!!!! Oh yea, and the G is certainly trying to model some subjects after the US edu sytem. Take our ICT subject, anyway, that's out of topic XD

I do think the gov is trying hard to improve the english standard, although they do have to try harder, dammit, u can't even understand what some of the teachers are talking about, and they end up communicating in BM instead... but then again, that's only a very rare case for me, so far, my current teachers are good at the language.

What I've been drilled with:
- watch BBC, astro 93 and 26(little britain, anyone?)
- read!!! comics -> news articles -> contemporary novels -> the classics, brrr....
- speak? hmm, with so much rojak and bad grammar going around, that's a challenge...
- and to a certain extent, videogames, dammit, i have admit, u do get some uncommon terms in those MMORPGs. But beware, certain translated asian MMOPRGS with horrible english, remember RO?

I love watching CNN, BBC, Discovery, Nat Geo, Al Jazeera English all those channels. In one way ur English gets improved, in another, ur general knowledge is widened.

eng important coz all country oso communicate using eng

well...
if u r okay in understanding,writing,reading english....
n not gud in speakin it...
mayb pronunciation prob...
or unable 2 contruct sentence...
listen 2 RAP song den....
american rap song...
learn 2 rap...
look at d lyric n rap according 2 d song...
after 1 month, c d differences...
after 2 months, c d differences again....
n i think by d 3rd month u will felt more confident in speaking english...
(of course in d rapping time u need 2 practise by speaking english 2 others)
YOU ARE NEVER BEATEN UNTIL YOU QUIT...

waa learning using rap songs....play computer games also can improve ur english...to add...ps2 games(from JP)...there's to many dialogue to read

English is important but it is not the ultimate perfect language.....

Mandarin; Spanish; Arabic is picking up.....

Don`t stuck with English.......

Btw..... I hate those anglo-phones who think they are more superior by conversing english as their first language....

As a matter of fact... Do english makes you more superior?

agreed. it's better to be a polyglot. able to speak more than 1 language.

I agree wholehearted. It's not the language that counts, but rather the attitude.