Should English be the world language?

A labored language is now a life insurance, it can open many doors in life. The way you communicate is your cover letter to other people, and it’s important that they receive a positive feeling from the outset. But nowadays, it doesn’t only matters that you know how to use your own language. Thanks to globalization and needs that have appeared throughout the years, we have had the need to travel, discover the world and seek new opportunities.

To go deep into that big world, you need to know how to handle more or less any situation that may crop up. And for that, we have to know how to communicate, how to transmit our wishes and needs, our ideas and thoughts to the world around us. As we see, it isn’t enough dominating our language, we need to know other languages to communicate in the different countries that we visit. 

But what if we could establish an international official language? Surely it would be easier. In all places, people would know that language. So wherever you go, you just need to know that international language (apart from your mother tongue) and it would have solved everything. Obviously, you don’t have to forget your mother tongue because it would make disappear the different cultures that coexist nowadays in our world, and no one wants that.

If we had to choose a language to set it as the official universal language, we should consider several points. It must be a widely known language, spoken in so many different locations. It should also be relatively easy to learn to facilitate that its learning reaches all the populations. And finally, if the language is similar to other languages besides fulfills the last conditions, it would be easier to choose it.

Pos.	Lengua (idioma)	Hablantes como lengua materna (Ethnologue 1999)	Hablantes como 1ª y 2ª lengua (Ethnologue 1999)	Total hablantes (Krysstal 2010).	Mapas lingüísticos
1	Chino mandarín	874.000.000	1.052.000.000	1.151.000.000
2	Español	358.000.000	417.000.000	500.000.000 (400 mill. nativos)
3	Inglés	341.000.000	508.000.000	1.000.000.000 (375 mill. nativos)

Consulting information in my mother tongue, we can see that Chinese is the language that fulfills better the first condition. It is the most spoken language in the world. Its disadvantage is that it is the most spoken because China's population is the largest, so therefore the number of people who spoke the language also becomes larger. Moreover, it isn’t known at several places, his power is only concentrated in countries that speak the language.  

On the other hand, English isn’t as spoken like Chinese, but it is much more popular. It is spoken in America, the United Kingdom, Australia, Africa… And it’s learned as a second language in many countries. Its similarities to other languages ​​like German, its global popularity and its relatively ease of learning (compared for example with Japanese or Korean) make this language the perfect candidate to be established as a world language.

And if English doesn’t work well, we have a second candidate, my mother tongue: Spanish. Looking at the above table, we see that it is the most spoken after Chinese and English, and the most popular in different countries after English.

I hope that someday we won’t matter our culture differences and we’ll be able to establish a world language. That day, borders won’t mind, everyone would share a very big thing: their own LANGUAGE.

"I have a dream"

“I have a dream…” It is the most famous part of the best-known Martin Luther King’s speech. He was fighting for his dream: to live in a world where it doesn’t matter the color of people’s skin, where people with dark or fair skin have the same rights and live as equals. This speech was delivered on August 28, 1963, during the march on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It was a defining moment for the Civil Rights Movements in America and it’s considered one of the best speeches in history.

Nowadays it seems that everyone has the same rights civil and that we all live in harmony, but it isn’t true at all. In some countries still exists discrimination, racism, exploitation. Some countries are still involved in wars that only damage the civil population. Some countries still discriminate people by their color skin, by their sex, age and money. Some children don’t have childhood and some elder people don’t have a family or a home.

My dream is simple, but difficult. I would like that everybody could live in harmony, having the work they want, having a family and a home, frees of prejudices and social classes. I would love that. Anyone wouldn’t be better than anyone else, more important or richest. For me, it would be something beautiful to live in a world where everyone has the same rights and opportunities, where it doesn't exist any necessity of causing conflicts, battles or even wars.

Maybe it’s too difficult to reach that level. Humans have naturally some features that preclude my desire, that stop it. But I know we can improve, we have done it always. Why we couldn’t do it now? We just need will, awareness and specially time, a lot of time.

A better world is possible and we can prove it!

If you could have your ideal job...

If you could have your ideal job, what would it be and why?
How would your working day go?

Those are questions that I often ask to me. I'd love to work with animals, but I love medicine too. If I could have my ideal job, I would work as a doctor or maybe as a vet. I would have studied the career some years ago so I’d have the experience that those degrees give you. Maybe, some years before I’d have my ideal job, I have to work in others sides to earn money to pay my career and why not, to get more experience. 

But someday, I’ll get the job I want. I would like to have a full-time job to earn enough money to pay my future house and vehicle. I’d work every morning from Monday to Friday, even Saturday’s mornings if it’s necessary (I repeat it, I'm talking about my ideal job, not about the reality). I would start at 8 or 9 am in the morning, having a break between 2 and 3 pm more or less to have lunch. Then, I would finish my working day about 5 pm. 

But I’m not sure if that’s the life that I want for me. And what if I want to travel or work in an ONG? I have always loved Greenpeace and Medicos Sin Fronteras, and it would be a privilege for me to work there. It would be very different. Maybe I haven’t marked schedules, maybe I have to live in another country, and why not, maybe I’d be happy with that. I’d love to help anyone I could; I’d like to save people’s life.

The problem comes if I ever want to have a family, to have children. I must have an appropiate schedule if I want to enjoy my time with them, my husband and my pets. I’d like to have time to play with them, to help my children with their homework and to educate them the best I can. I’d like to bring them to their school and play with my pugs every day (I'd love to have some of that dogs, they're lovely). But for doing that, I know that I must have a different working schedule…

And this is something I will discuss another day!

                

My first time traveling by plane!

I will never forget that amazing and embarrassing experience. It was 22^nd of august in 2010, but it was a cold and cloudy day. My parents and I were waiting at the Barcelona airport for my flight to Vienna. I had won that trip after some months working in a project about the environment, and then I was going to travel by plane for the first time with some friends. I was really nervous!

Once we had been inside the plane, we sat in our places and started to inspect the plane. There were a lot of interesting things that claimed my attention: some estrange buttons at the top, magazines and catalogs at the front of me subjected by a removable table and the emergency material at the bottom of our sits. At first I inspected the buttons and the emergency material while air hostesses were giving some instructions. Then, when they had finished I wanted to leaf through catalogs. First, I tried to open out the table but I couldn’t.  Later, I started to think about how could work the table’s mechanism and finally, fed-up of trying different ways to open out it, I shook the table strongly, moving the sit in front of me too.

At first I hadn’t realized that if it was a sit, maybe it was occupied by another traveler, but then I did it: I noticed that in that sit there was a young woman. I went bright red, it was so embarrassing! I had being annoying her all that time, poor girl!

What's your earliest memory?

Scientific studies guarantee that your brain starts to keep temporal information since the 20^th gestation’s week, but the time we start to store memories that could last forever begins at the age of 3 years old, or as an exception since the 30^th month (2 years and a half).

Currently, there are some discussions about other possibilities: scientists say that it’s impossible to keep memories before you’re two years and a half, cause our brain isn’t prepared to store them... But many people ensure that they have some memories of when they were more or less one year old. Psychologists justify that fact indicating that they could have created these memories from the explanations and anecdotes that the family could have explained them. But what’s true and what’s false? It all depends on the glass through you look. Even if it’s too difficult, science could fail sometimes, science could rectify its laws.

And after that, what do you think it’s your earliest memory? Are you sure it’s a memory? Or it’s only a creation originated from explains you’ve received? Well, in my humble opinion, I think is possible having memories of earlier times to were 2 years and a half. I don’t know what’s my first memory, cause I have many short memories that I can’t put in a chronologically order, but I know that these firsts memories were before I was two and while I was two years old.

 I can remember many things about my childhood, but my earliest memories are almost all about me and my grandma. In my firsts three years of life I was raised by her, cause my parents were working hard to earn enough money to pay all my needs, so she was living in my home. I remember that many days I didn’t want to eat my porridge and then my grandma always gave me her soup, even then she hadn’t nothing to have lunch. I recall those summer hot days, when we ate some peaches together and admired the velvety fruit’s skin. We loved peaches and I still love them, their smell and touch take me a stroll down memory lane: they remind me her. 

I remember clearly my first days in the nursery, I didn’t like it. I hated to go there, but luckily I started primary school soon, when I was still two. At the same time, my grandma had a road accident and she had to go back to her home, I still remember it sadly. Since then, I didn’t miss even a weekend without visiting her. I went every Friday to her flat and I turned home every Sunday evening.

 Scientist may say that we can’t store memories until we are three or two and a half years old, but I know that these memories are true memories because I can remember smells, touches, feelings... and no one could explain that to me. I know they are before I was two years and a half, cause it was the age that I was when my grandma had to turned back to her flat, and all the memories were before that. Now it seems impossible, but maybe someday they’ll have to correct something about their theories or add exceptions...

We can recall our past but, no one could know the future!




I leave you here a beautiful song with an amazing short related with life and memories, I hope you enjoy it:

The best way to learn english

Nowadays, we’re living in a world which is in a constant change and we must improve with it if we want to be ready to any situation. In actually, we’re suffering a world crisis and maybe someday we’ll get a job in another country with another language - cause we don’t find it in our country. Languages are really important: they help us to communicate with people; we can share opinions, feelings, desires… But to communicate with people of all over the world, we must know different languages… or maybe only one, an international or universal language!

English is considered an universal or auxiliary language, cause it’s a language meant for communication between people from different nations who don’t share a common native language. Learning English could be difficult to many people. Even if they are taking many classes or if they study really hard, sometimes they don’t know how to face a real situation in which they have to use that new language.

      

And how can we improve our English? Well, I’m gonna tell you some advices based on my experience, so take a pen and a paper and take notes of the best way to learn English:

First advice: When you’ve decided that you’re gonna learn English, you don’t have to think that it’s something that you’ll study by heart. You have to think that learning a language it’s a very interactive activity, and that you can enjoy learning. Don’t worry and relax!

Second advice: Depending on your level, you’ll have to do different activities. For example, if you’re taking classes, you can improve your English at home with some interactive activities of your level (like seeing films in English: at first with subtitles in your language, later with subtitles in English, and at last, only in English, without subtitles). With this advice, you will do an important step: You’ll start to learn real English.

Third advice: Look for some series, films, songs or books that you like a lot. When you have done the 2^nd advice, you can try that. With that advice, you’ll know much more vocabulary in English, you’ll habituate your ears to listen English and you’ll understand conversations, compositions and explanations faster than ever.

Fourth advice: The best way of all to learn English is go to a country which has that language like the official (USA, Britain, Scotland…) and live there for some years, cause you’ll have to talk everybody in English. If you can’t travel (for economic reasons, or others), you have to make a friend who’s English. Doesn’t matter if you make the friend during a trip with your family, in a chat, in an exchange, by facebook or twitter… You must talk to him/her often, and you’ll learn to face real situations, you’ll habituate your ears to real English and you’ll start learn informal English vocabulary.

Fifth advice: Once you have done the four last advices, you’ll be prepared to combine them. I’m sure you’ll learn English really fast if you take classes, study hard grammar and study by heart some difficult vocabulary, listen to songs in English, make an effort and watch movies in English and talk with some English or American friends.

And remember, you have to enjoy what you learn, don’t get angry if you don’t understand something, relax and try it again!

Here you have a photo of me and my English friends, with them I've improved a lot. Since I met them, I lost the embarrassment of speaking in English!