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Yanjun Cai Professor Jan Rieman ENGL 1011-119 Sep 30, 2012 Dont Insist on English Every time the reading for some liberal studies courses overwhelmed me, and I had to drop some courses required plenty of reading on history, policy or international relationship, for I am afraid of performing not as good as my classmates who speaks English naturally. Indeed, although I have been an excellent English learner in China

among my peers, English still is the major obstacle that I have to overcome during the first semester in UNC Charlotte. I always tell myself that I should do better if I could This attitude can inspire my fighting

understand most of what they are talking about.

will to enhance my English step by step. However, the situations still depressed me for continuing missing points on quizzes and the presentations on topics I am unfamiliar with the cultural background. So as Patricia Ryan mentioned, I have gained certain

knowledge in Chinese, but I still have to translate it into English to learn it again; or I might get a disappointing grade in the liberate studies due to my English ability. fair? Maybe the answer is yes, which I compel myself to nod. Is it

The reason is that I

choose the way to achieve my goal, which means it is my decision to do so but not the University forces me to complete my degree here. Frankly speaking, it is just the language itself without discrimination or prejudice.

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What we concerned about is that whether it is possible to disseminate the knowledge, information and technology throughout the world not just giving priority to English? Well, it might be true that English is the most convenient language when universal issues confronting our human beings needed to be dealt with. Nevertheless, it could not be the

most appropriate language in a global exchange of ideas, such as literature, history, religion, and culinary art. From my perspective, people live in some districts that their

share dialogues could contain some contents others have difficulty to understand; even they are in the same country using the same Chinese or English. Hence, I might be able to deduce a conclusion from that: under the circumstance of different culture and language, insisting on English may be limiting for deeply and thoroughly interact among people, for these issues do represent its cultural diversity and racial variety required its own language to demonstrate and articulate its underlying sense. In spite of the fact that a language dies every 14 days, we still affirm the significance of a lingua franca. away from. Globalization is the trend in modern world that we could not keep

We are in need of a lingua franca to converse about the global issues

efficiently, which are not so strongly linked with cultural background. We meet up with negotiations every day in many fields, in which a lingua franca can play the essential role to scrupulous fairness. Some specific domains like orthodox medicine or state of

emergency do require a lingua franca, for it can provide the swift reaction and management under these extreme situations. Hopefully, the lingua franca wont conflict with the language diversity.