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JAY WALKER : LANGUAGE MANIAS

Mr. Walker was trying to explain about new mania of the world after Beatles mania, sport mania, and religious mania. Mania can be good, can be alarming, or can be deadly. The new mania of the world is mania for learning English. Chinese people learn English by screaming. There are 2 billion of them who trying to learn English worldwide in India, Latin America, India and most of all in China. Chinese start learning English in the third grade. That is why China become the world’s largest English speaking country.


Why English ? in one word “Opportunity” for having better life, a job, a school and for putting better food on the table. Imagine a student’s life depends on English test which the score of the test literally determine her future. English is the world's second language, your native language is your life but with English you can become part of a wider conversation. The world has other universal languages such as mathematics is the language of science, music is the language of emotions and now English is becoming the language of problem solving. That is not because America pushing it but the world is pulling it. Thus, English represents hope for a better future where the world has a common language to solve its common problems.
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