A PASSAGE FOR CULTURES AROUND THE WORLD

Language is a means of understanding or not understanding each other. We must use a language to see if we can understand each other or not. Furthermore, we must use a language to communicate with each other, too. If we want to get along with the people around the world, we again must use a language but a common language like English. Actually English is very important for us. Because almost all of the world population knows English or at least they are familiar with it. Of course, there are people who can speak other languages like Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, etc. However it is a requirement to speak English as a known language to share something with the other people. The other cause for learning English is that culture. We can learn a lot of things about people’s, societies’ or even a country’s culture by learning English. I don’t mean adapting that culture by learning it. I mean that by learning English we can look the world in a different view point and we can compare our cultures with the others. For example, you can compare your film stars talents with world stars’s by knowing English since they talk English while communicating with each other. Finally, learning English has another advantage in technology. For example, you can learn a lot of information about the world by using internet. As English is the language of the internet world, you can use of internet very easily. In conclusion, to understand people who live around the world and to learn new cultures English is very important. As you see, English is critically important for us. It is like a main part of machine that can not work without it. Aysel Durmaz