Mesaĝoj: 29
Lingvo: English
dbob (Montri la profilon) 2015-aprilo-15 21:00:38
What do you think?
Tempodivalse (Montri la profilon) 2015-aprilo-15 21:44:48
So I don't see how excluding the other 26 countries' languages is fair at the benefit of those two.
And no, not everyone in Europe speaks English, especially not at a seriously functional level - that's a common misconception by some monoglot anglophones who assume that everyone in the world knows English just because everyone in their (often monolingual) neck of the woods speaks English. That's an attitude of complacent superiority or just cultural ignorance.
Tempodivalse (Montri la profilon) 2015-aprilo-15 21:51:09
Suzumiya (Montri la profilon) 2015-aprilo-15 22:39:10
orthohawk (Montri la profilon) 2015-aprilo-16 01:39:11
Tempodivalse:If I'm not mistaken, English is the official language of only two of the EU's 28 countries: the United Kingdom and Ireland.Just FYI, it's also official in Malta.
So I don't see how excluding the other 26 countries' languages is fair at the benefit of those two.
And no, not everyone in Europe speaks English, especially not at a seriously functional level - that's a common misconception by some monoglot anglophones who assume that everyone in the world knows English just because everyone in their (often monolingual) neck of the woods speaks English. That's an attitude of complacent superiority or just cultural ignorance.
faust_twi (Montri la profilon) 2015-aprilo-16 03:07:07
lagtendisto (Montri la profilon) 2015-aprilo-16 07:15:41
Tempodivalse:And no, not everyone in Europe speaks* English, especially not at a seriously functional level ...What level do you point to? What level is necessary?
* In my opinion its not only 'double-dutch-sh' English speaking, its proper interactive speaking (communication) also proper working in EU-wide 112 emergency call situation.
bryku (Montri la profilon) 2015-aprilo-16 07:32:23
"What level do you point to? What level is necessary?"
The level of freely expressing yourself.
Amike
Grzesiek
Duckwing (Montri la profilon) 2015-aprilo-16 08:53:02
se (Montri la profilon) 2015-aprilo-16 09:16:25
When mentioning about business English, which is not totally true that every where in the world is using English in the trading process, for example, the border of Malaysia/Thailand, they use Thai or Malay, similar to the China and Vietnam.
Esperanto is the best business language, a research was done in 1922, but, no other Esperanto business people, even the IKEF does again this research to see the time has moved the language away or still the best.