Re: living in europe

Gregory Morrow writes:

> Well these days I figure with everyone in the world clambering to learn
> English why on *earth* would I ever even bother with wanting to learn some
> difficult and eventually fairly useless foreign tongue?

You make an important point. However, much of this depends on which
language people speak in your immediate environment. People in China
may be rushing to learn English, but that doesn't help you if you live
in a South American city where just about everyone speaks Spanish. It
will be a very, very long time before everyone speaks English as his
native language (if it ever happens at all), and it will be quite a
long time before everyone speaks English as a second language (and
that's not guaranteed to happen, either).

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