English Language, Important or Not?

English language is an official language that has been used in 54 countries. English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in Anglo-Saxon England in the early Middle Ages. It is now the third most widely used language in the world, behind Mandarin and Spanish. (source: Wikipedia)

From what i have been gathered and added with data from the first paragraph, i can say that English language is really important for us to learn. There are four foundational skills of language learning, that are speaking, listening, reading, and writing. A lot of Indonesia people still struggle to learn that four skill and the most difficult is speaking. Even though English language has been used by 54 countries, but not many people can converse fluently. Because of the super power nations are officialy used English language, so if we want to be superpower nations, we must learn from them.

In my campus, i take economic faculty and accounting major. Right now, most of accounting lesson from all over the world, already using IFRS book which contain English language. The accounting principles from Indonesia, named PSAK, follow the IFRS principle as the guide. If we, as accounting students, want to catch up with PSAK, we must learn English language. But, there’s one thing that make the difficulties of students to learn English language from my perspective, that is the ignorance and the low vision. Because of that, we, Indonesian people, are far from competitive and successful life.

America, the super power country, is the role model of economic system in the world. Why is that? Because of their business. Bill gates, the richest man in the world, is from america and he has a gigantic system operations that most of people using, that is Microsoft. No.t only him, Mark Zuckerberg, Warren Edward Buffet, and many more, they are from America. We can learn a lot of things from them to become as successful businessman as them. How can we be as successful as them? The answer is very simple, learn English language. Languages is the key of knowledge. Even we are as students in economic faculty, we must learn English as much as possible. After that we can learn from them how to do it like them. So don’t be an ignorace, don’t be lazy, and know more. The more you know, the wiser you can be. If we don’t learn english language, we can’t be anything, we will stop to grow and we just stay at where we are. People say that we must love our National language, that is true, but we must not make a border from ourselves from just learn National language. We must learn the other languages too. But first, i think we must learn English language as priority and put it as our second language. If we want to have the successful person or trying to be as rich as them, learn English as soon as possible, but that’s up to you if you want to follow my suggestion or not.