IS ENGLISH A MANIA?

Last Wednesday afternoon, I was playing football with my friends. An hour later Patxi told me: “sorry but I have to go to the English academy”, and then all my friends told me the same. Five minutes after all my friends had gone, and I was alone, with the ball. I started to think and I wondered: is English a mania?

In my view, English is absolutely a mania. It’s true that English is expanding all over the world, cause to internet and globalization, but in my opinion it’s excessive the mania of the parents signing up their children to the English academies. We can learn English at school, but a lot of parents think that if they don’t sign up their children in an academy, they won’t learn English.

However, it isn’t an obsession only of parents. If you want to apply for a job, they always ask you a certificate of English, and if you don’t have it, you won’t get the job. I believe that English is important nowadays to travel to other countries, have a better job…. But a lot of people are learning English before learning well his own language! And this is catastrophic: day by day English will delete all the languages in the world, all the cultures and all the traditions. We want that? I don’t think so.

To sum up, I agree that English is important these days, but it is more important to learn and use our language, if we don’t want to lose it.