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A multilingual friend of mine whom I interviewed for this blog a while ago read my recent post asking Why not English?

Here’s her reaction:

Forget English, German is the tongue that we all wish to know, to emigrate to the country of jobs and money!!! (that’s what they say everyday on Spanish TV).

But you are not just teaching her a language, you are teaching her about her origins, where she comes from, to interact with family and giving her the opportunity to go back if she wishes to do it. I’ve known some people who migrated here young or are born here from immigrant parents, and lost the mother tongue, and regret it (and yes, even with useless internationally speaking languages). And even people who growing up decided to learn what had been lost.

… and you’ll give her something to talk about: “say something in German!” “I’m so jealous you talk an other language, but you know, you should talk Chinese!”

She’ll learn English anyway sooner or later.

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