{"id":148,"date":"2009-02-20T17:25:57","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T16:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/?p=148"},"modified":"2018-04-18T15:22:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T14:22:38","slug":"the-value-of-learning-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/2009\/02\/the-value-of-learning-english\/","title":{"rendered":"The Value of Learning English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-149\" title=\"economist\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/economist.jpg\" alt=\"economist\" width=\"150\" height=\"135\" \/>According to a recent article in The Economist, a renowned British publication, the <a title=\"English courses at language studies International\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lsi.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">English language<\/a> is playing an ever more central role in aiding communication between multi-lingual Europe. The Economist highlights the increasing number of printed and online articles being produced primarily in English by many well known members of the European Press. The article quotes Daryl Lindsey from the German publication Der Spiegel as saying \u201cEuropeans can read what other Europeans think about the world\u201d. These changes herald failure for the European Union\u2019s policy of \u201cmother tongue plus two\u201d which promotes the learning of two foreign languages, in practice usually <a title=\"Learn French in France\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lsi.edu\/en\/french\/france\/country\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">French <\/a>or <a title=\"Learn german in germany\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lsi.edu\/en\/\">German<\/a> alongside English, in addition to the native language.<\/p>\n<p>English appears to be winning out, claims the Economist, thus diminishing the need for native English speakers to learn another European language, a fact highlighted in a smaller uptake in <a title=\"Learn german in Switzerland\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lsi.edu\/en\/german\/switzerland\/country\">German<\/a>, French and <a title=\"Learn Spanish in Spain\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lsi.edu\/en\/spanish\/spain\/country\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spanish<\/a> classes inside schools in the <a title=\"English in England\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lsi.edu\/en\/english\/england\/country\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UK<\/a> and Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEuropeans will become bilingual , except for Anglophones, who are becoming monolingual \u201cpredicts the Belgian academic Mr van Parijs.<\/p>\n<p><em>Based on an article in The Economist , February 14<sup>th<\/sup> 2009<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent article in The Economist, a renowned British publication, the English language is playing an ever more&nbsp;[&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[50,51,23],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learn-english-usuage","tag-english","tag-french","tag-german","post-item clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3011,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/3011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}