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The love of all things English begins at a young age in non-English-speaking countries, promoted by pop culture, Hollywood movies, fast-food brands, sports events and TV shows.
Later, with English skills and international education qualifications from high school, the path is laid to prestigious international universities in the English-speaking world and employment opportunities at home and abroad.
But those opportunities aren't distributed equally across socioeconomic groups. Global education in English is largely reserved for middle-class students.
This is creating a divide between those inside the global English proficiency ecosystem and those relegated to parts of the education system where such opportunities don't exist.
[...] It's unfortunate so many schools view an English-speaking model as the gold standard and overlook their own local or regional wisdoms. We need to remember that encouraging young people to join a privileged English-speaking élite educated in foreign universities is only one of many possible educational options.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2020, @07:08AM (1 child)
One of the, if not the, most rich phonetic scripts. Using latin alphabet to write down, say, Southeast Asian word/phrase is pushing square block into a round hole. For that matter, it's pretty inadequate even for slavic languages.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2020, @10:27AM
Hitting the nail upon the head. Phonetics is no basis for a semantic communication system! It is like Meat blowing air through its meat. . . Oh, heck, you just have to watch the video. [youtube.com]