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“We have to speak English well. If you can speak two or three languages, so much the better, but English is essential,” he told the National Council of the University Student Federation in an Aug. 29 speech in Havana.
Quartz I almost NEVER agree with. Not this time. Tho I def find it real interesting how Cuba's pushing English compared to French, Russian, Chinese or even Arabic. Maybe the commies know something?
They know that English is the global lingua franca and the world's largest economy is a mostly English speaking country only 90 miles from their shores.
They know that English is the global lingua franca and the world's largest economy is a mostly English speaking country only 90 miles from their shores.
“We have to speak English well. If you can speak two or three languages, so much the better, but English is essential,” he told the National Council of the University Student Federation in an Aug. 29 speech in Havana.
Quartz I almost NEVER agree with. Not this time. Tho I def find it real interesting how Cuba's pushing English compared to French, Russian, Chinese or even Arabic. Maybe the commies know something?
Most countries around the world choose English as a second language of study especially among the young. This isn't really news--if your first language isn't English, learning English is the easiest way to have access to the global economy of communicate with visitors. It's the same reason US, Canadian, British, or Australian college grads with no teaching background can easily score English teaching jobs all over the world
When Europeans or Latin Americans or Africans travel to Asian countries and don't know the local language they are almost always going to end up speaking English to communicate. Even when Japanese travel to China or vice versa, they might have to fall back on English to communicate to each other. The same is true all over the world--whereas if an Italian person or French person goes to Spain they might know enough Spanish to communicate, but if they go to Eastern Europe they'll most likely have to speak English.
With Canadians and Brits already visiting Cuba in large numbers and American tourist hordes in big numbers maybe only a couple years away, learning English is going to help the tourism industry that Cuba has been relying on more and more over the last 20 years.
No they don't. I'm from Miami. Some of them have lived in the US for decades and still "No peeky Englee".
Very common for immigrants unless they learned English in their home country.
My in laws, long gone, came from Eastern Europe in 1950. They lived, worked, paid taxes, became citizens and owned property without understanding or speaking a word of English after 50 years in the US.
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