In order to be considered educated, should you know how to speak English?

[ChefPapiChulo]

[scentoflavender]

Not necessarily. A second language is definitely a good way to use your education, and it is hard. I've been learning Spanish for a few years now and I'm just now getting to he point when I can hold very very small conversations. Anyhow, point being is your language doesn't indicate the lack of education.

[Lisia]

Yeah, in my opinion it's the most important language in the world rn and it's also easy to learn.

[jahaims]

English is considered one of the hardest languages to learn globally.

[Lisia]

@jahaims lol no way look it up

[jahaims]

I did

[Lisia]

@jahaims bruh Mandarin is way harder. English is in the Germanic language family and I'm a dutch speaker which is also Germanic so it's easy for me and a lot of other people. When you have a different alphabet, yeah that could be hard but that's vice versa also the case.

[jahaims]

I said one of the hardest not the hardest. English must be hard for you if you can't read it. I am aware that English is inherited from proto-germanic with significant influence from latinate and romance sources. Finnish, Russian, Japanese, and Mandarin are also considered hard to learn. How hard a language is to learn depends on what your native tongue is.

[Lisia]

@jahaims You said globally lol it isn't globally hard.

[jahaims]

www.ict.edu/.../

[jahaims]

portlandenglish.edu/.../

[jahaims]

oxfordsummercourses.com/.../

[Lisia]

@jahaims www.ef.com/.../ .. English is literally not fk hard. I learned it when I was 9 because of games and movies. Even just the basics are easy compared to a lot of other languages lol.

[jahaims]

www.rosettastone.eu/.../

[Lisia]

@jahaims lol I feel like you're a native English speaker and your ego can't handle this

[jahaims]

My sources are accredited learning institutions. Not a random. com sites.

[jahaims]

I literally just showed you hard evidence of how incorrect you are. You are the only one involving an ego.

[Lisia]

@jahaims I feel that English is more hard for people that are just lazy to learn a language. But if you know lots of languages, you know it isn't. It's probably harder for people from a different alphabet except Russians, since they learn English at school too and should be average at least.

[jahaims]

Oh, you "feel." Feelings aren't facts. Your feelings are why you let your biases blind you with ignorance.

[Lisia]

"Unlike other languages, English has no cases, no gender, no word agreement, and arguably has a simple grammar system. English speakers sometimes have difficulties when learning Portuguese because they are not used to words having genders."

[ChefPapiChulo]

Depends what your original language is. I would find mandarin almost impossible to learn most likely.

[Lisia]

My sister learned Mandarin hahah

[ChefPapiChulo]

Oh nice. At 30+ things get so much harder to learn.

[Lisia]

Yeah I can believe that

[Lisia]

Thanks for the MHO! ❤️

[ChefPapiChulo]

You’re welcome <3

[DryGermanGuy]

No. You could be a university professor in your individual field (e. g. ancient Japanese mythology) and never need a word of English in your life.

[imran_]

Nope