What cities in Asia has English as their default language?

[Tomboy-]

Mostly true for the Phillippines as well.

Originally Posted by Double Shadow

Singapore schools teach math and science only in English, any subject except Chinese language. Someone correct me if I got it wrong.

[mojo101]

Someone once said English is such a versatile language,it can be used to express science,literature,poety,more people should learn to speak English.
I agree

[indigorunner]

Originally Posted by mojo101

Someone once said English is such a versatile language,it can be used to express science,literature,poety,more people should learn to speak English.
I agree

Are you implying you cannot express science, literature, and poetry in languages other than English?

[GoodHombre]

Everyone should learn programming langauges because they are more universal, lol.

[GoodHombre]

Originally Posted by OyCrumbler

Only one poster stated everyone should speak English or that English is some intrinsically better language. Filipino’s not on my radar of languages to learn at the moment as my friends who had lived there all moved out and are unlikely to move back and I myself am not from a Filipino background and the FilAm friends unfortunately do not speak Filipino with any frequency or fluency. I have nothing against the Filipino language, and I’m more than happy to learn more languages, but there’s a priority queue I have for that in terms of personal usefulness to me and personal interest. English isn’t even my first or second language and I have decent fluency in four languages and working knowledge of another three, so I don’t know why you turned this into a personal and baseless invective.

I asked this question as part of a general interest in languages and not because I like the idea of any global lingua franca supplanting other languages. My leanings are actually towards the opposite of that where I think languages and dialects have an inherent value to them that should be preserved. I essentially want to know where the lingua franca has unfortunately supplanted all others and nothing you stated has any relevance to the topic at hand.

I think the Netherlands is the role model. Their local language and culture are definitely well preserved, but most people speak decent English.

[OyCrumbler]

Originally Posted by GoodHombre

I think the Netherlands is the role model. Their local language and culture are definitely well preserved, but most people speak decent English.

Part of that likely stems from how very closely related Dutch is to English and the rather small Dutch language entertainment and media industries.

[Greysholic]

Originally Posted by GoodHombre

I think the Netherlands is the role model. Their local language and culture are definitely well preserved, but most people speak decent English.

It's easy to speak decent English when a) your language is very similar to English and b) England is just a couple of hours away by train.

[Tomboy-]

All these are mainly expressed in the national language of China, Korea and Japan except in HK and Macau.
Larger countries not ruled by western powers use less European languages.

Originally Posted by indigorunner

Are you implying you cannot express science, literature, and poetry in languages other than English?