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Introduction

Thanks to multilingualism we can speak more than one language has benefits and
advantages, not only personally but also in labor and professional. Communication
skills when traveling as well as the possibility of a better job, are just some of the
qualities of speaking more than one language.
Note that the languages are directly related to the educational, vocational,
recreational and personal development of all individuals in adulthood.
The prospect of employment increases considerably when one speaks a language
other than birth. The languages transcend borders and add the possibility of
smooth communication, it is also possible to apply for a job in that country, is a
possibility of geographical relocation.

Importance of Speaking more than one language


Learn languages has become so transcendent and important, that if a college
student fails to establish some level of knowledge cant get his college degree.
The phenomenon of globalization is making clear the need for employers in all
sectors to learn some of the most used in the business world languages.
Construction, finance, management, marketing, education, internet, tourism; any
field requires a domain in terms of a foreign language.
Whether English, most international, French, with great influence on the European
continent and the African, or German soul of one of the engines of the global
economy and heart of Europe. All have their relevance in business.
The growth of new technologies and the enormous potential of current
communications network, is favoring the emergence of a global trading system
where there are no limits action. Any medium enterprises located in a remote part
of the world map, has the ability to create new networks of cooperation and trade
with other companies. All you need is a communications link with your interlocutor
to facilitate interaction between the two. That link will probably be one of the above
languages.
Do not forget also the importance of another language such as Japanese in the
business world. Still, the language of "Empire of the Rising Sun" has a fairly small
radius of use. It is very interesting for those companies with Japanese capital or
expected to grow to that market.
There is also a group of emerging languages insurance will have their importance
in the future, such as Chinese, Russian and Hindi. Mandarin is the most spoken
language in the world. In addition, all forecasts suggest that China will become the
near future in the next world power. Russia is also growing much in economic and
population begins to recover from the difficult post-communist period. India,
meanwhile, gets a lot of foreign investment and exports a large number of human
capital in all parts of the world, so that their role in the business world grows daily.

Mexicans speak a second language?


Since 1992, Mexico is recognized as a multicultural nation originally based on its
indigenous peoples; however, these peoples have been excluded, marginalized
and exploited; and as a result of the foregoing, the Indians have seen the need to
hide their identity and abandon their languages and traditions.
In the ethno-linguistic aspect Mexico has 11 linguistic families, 68 linguistic groups
and 364 variants, of which 259 are at risk of extinction due to speak an indigenous
language today is mocked, penalty or stands for exclusion and promotes an
obstacle to finding a job, use any services or to exercise their rights.
Why is it so important to keep the language alive? The Royal Academy of the
Spanish Language (2001) defines "language" as "oral communication system and
almost always written with a human community." In addition to his fifth sense that
identifies it as "own characteristic vocabulary and grammar of a era, a writer or a
social group. "
Therefore, languages represent a unique way of seeing the world, speakers of any
language not realize the importance and cultural depth that is transmitted with each
word; language is transmitted from generation to generation and becomes an
inherent part of our life, it is a living heritage that is generating new meanings.
(Hernndez, 2013)
So that each language is rich and is complemented by social and cultural aspects
of their speakers.
One thing that is important to highlight is that Mexico is between the 6th and 4th
place in linguistic diversity, richness of this heritage is such that only the state of
Oaxaca has a greater number of languages, families and linguistic types across
Europe; take this into account is a fundamental way to understand the impact of
indigenous peoples in Mexico to promote cultural richness that it is imperative to
maintain. (National Institute of Anthropology and History, 2010).

Indigenous languages, like any other, are changing, are updated, but this process
will also dying. (Cruz, 2010) and there are several proposals to claim the cultural
heritage of indigenous peoples.
The first step towards the inclusion of indigenous languages, is to create
awareness that are national languages that deserve to be valued and respected,
and not see them as "dialects" from the point of view derogatory.
Not to insist despite all indigenous languages are not dialects, and is a pity that still
need to repeat it, but unfortunately it is still very common to hear from the mouths
of speakers and non-speakers of these languages. There is nothing that makes
them different from other languages, the Indians have a less comprehensive
phonological or syntactic system, nor have fewer lexical items referring to the
world, do not need gestures to complete its meaning, nothing that makes
incomplete . Call "dialects" implies a derogatory load.
It is necessary to overcome the vision of our current social system as the sole
source of social representation, ie stop completely exclude cultural events and
knowledge of previous peoples or originating on the pretext considered obsolete
and slightly progressive, taking as a starting point that our society is the symbol of
evolution.
We ask government authorities to respect us, do not isolate us, to take into
account the way we think and work things out. Who value our knowledge, accept
our way of life. Give us space for public policy decisions. We need to strengthen
our languages, that whenever we are more speakers of indigenous languages,
which are spoken spaces in the public and in schools. (INAH, 2010)
The government to respect their language and promote bilingual education in
indigenous communities, rather than promoting the use of Spanish as the only
language.
Raising public awareness about the current problems of indigenous and promote
respect for their customs, traditions and languages through education and inclusion

of indigenous literature in order to strengthen, publicize and disseminate literature


writers in indigenous languages creators of poetry, universes and multiple images
through their language and culture.

Guca Tobisi z lidxinu


tobisi gucanu Laanu
nayeche bi'ndanu
tobisi ladxido'no nga
dxi beedxe
guide them
ne yaga
ca bixhozenu
biza'ca Laanu.
One cloud was our home,
We were one,
cheerful was our song,
one was only our heart,
the day tigers,
stones
and trees,
our parents
they gave way.
[Translation Isthmus Zapotec Spanish]
(Pineda, 2008, pp. 28-29)

WHAT IS THE IMPORTANCE OF SPEAKING ENGLISH?


Today more than ever it is essential to learn the English language. Every day more
used in almost all areas of knowledge and human development. Practically it can
be said that this is the language of today. It is, in the era of globalization, the great
international language, a "lingua franca" that has affected all non-English speaking
countries, including Spain, and affects various fields and professions more or less

directly. Possession can no longer be treated as a luxury, but an obvious necessity.


Moreover, even said because who does not master this language would be a clear
disadvantage: it would be as if dumb or illiterate medium. And too many reasons to
say.
First, this is the tool that allows communication with people from other countries
within the globalized world in which we live. It is indisputable: English has become
the global language of communication par excellence, one of the most popular in
the world. It's official language, or has a special status in some 75 territories
worldwide.
Language level facto UK and the US.
Official Language: Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Fiji, Belize, Botswana,
Dominica, Ghana, Gambia, Gibraltar, Guam, Guyana, Cayman Islands, Bermuda,
Falkland Islands, Montserrat, Pitcairn Islands, Saint Helena, Tristan da Acuna,
Virgin Islands, Solomon Islands, Jamaica, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Northern
Mariana Islands, Malta, Mauritius, Nauru, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, American
Samoa, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Sierra Leone, Swaziland, Trinidad and
Tobago, Granada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago,
Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
co-official language: Bangladesh, Brunei, Canada, South Africa, Ireland, Israel,
Kenya, Kiribati, Cameroon, Egypt, UAE, Namibia, New Zealand, Chagos, Diego
Garcia, Marshall Islands (USA..), India, Lebanon, Malaysia, Myanmar (formerly
Burma), the Philippines, Pakistan, Puerto Rico (EE. UU.), Seychelles, Sri Lanka
(formerly Ceylon), Singapore, Tanzania, Tokelau and Tonga.
Minorities: Netherlands Antilles, Costa Rica, Equatorial Guinea, Delta Amacuro
and Bolivar (Venezuela), Honduras, Hong Kong (China), Malaysia, Mexico,
Panama (not so much from the return of the Panama Canal), Par (Brazil) ,
Samoa, Suriname, Tuvalu etc.

Recent estimates suggest that about 402 million people speak it as their first
language, and is used today by more than 1,000 million non-native speakers. And
this number will continue to grow, moreover, some 2,000 million people worldwide
what could be learning, concludes a recent report by the British Council. However,
in just over a decade it will speak three billion people, ie half of humanity. The
consequences of the advance of this linguistic tide are immeasurable. Within a few
generations and for the first time in the history of "homo sapiens", most of our
species will be able to communicate in one language.
This is the biggest blow to civilization, worldwide, over the past quarter century. In
most parts of the world most speak at least some English, so almost everywhere,
who knows, could "survive". This expansion is a real earthquake in the history of
mankind, one of the most important events that have happened to humanity since
the birth of language. No language had before achieved universality, and had gone
as far or as fast. it's the first time in history that it is possible to identify a language
as predominant.
The French outside France's days are numbered; Francophone Africa is changing
into English. The Portuguese Africa are leaving the Portuguese. The German
experienced a shy temporal progress in the emerging Eastern Europe, but
elsewhere outside Germany disappears. The Russian, who some time ago might
have thought I would have to learn it, is finished. In Japan they are learning English
and developing their own preferred variant. China will resist, but Mandarin and
Cantonese will not reach beyond its native speakers. There are newer Muslims
learn English to Arabic. Only Spanish is gaining importance and growing but
among the American people, who already speak English.
The Value Of Knowing How To Speak English
The English language is the easiest of all to learn. This is one reason why
prevailed in the United States. The descendants of the Germans, for example,
were far more numerous at the time of the birth of this nation; however, it was the
English who finally defeated.

For global consensus, English has been chosen as the language of international
communication. It is "de facto" the language of diplomacy in a "global" world in
which relations between countries are becoming more important. His knowledge is
required to work in the supra-governmental institutions such requirement. In 2001,
it became a query to the 189 member countries of the United Nations on the
desired language for communication between embassies. More than 120 chose
English, including Vietnam, countries that once formed the Soviet Union and most
of those in the Arab world, selected 40 French, and 20 opted for the Castilian.
That "status" has been conferred him through political, economic and military
dominance of mainly during the last two centuries, by EE. UU.
In the economic field, industry, business, international trade, the entire production
universe write, speak and read in English. Major airlines, for example, have
adopted as an official language. If you know that language, any worker they will
open almost every door in employment opportunities and improved from a median
wage employment to the highest executive levels. Just look at the job offers from
major newspapers. There are already many who use it every day, not only to
communicate with managers, also in positions of lesser responsibility knowledge
can become a core competency, machines, techniques used and are mainly in that
language.
To explain the great importance of English today, another important reason is the
scientific superiority of the United States and Britain in the twentieth century, with
important discoveries and technological advances. This century brought advances
in science and technology unimaginable to most: the automobile, the airplane, the
radio, television, radar, computers, rockets, missiles, atomic bomb and H-bomb.
Initially, these products were manufactured in both countries and were exported to
other parts of the world. However, as were developed, other nations were riding
their own industries and "importing" English-speaking technicians and scientists,
thus contributing to the strengthening and expansion of English.

Today, any researcher or professional who wants to be a day or access specialized


books inevitably need to know English to be informed of the rapid developments
taking place in their area of expertise. This is so because 75% of the literature is in
English. This also extends to other content provided by other existing media,
television, radio, newspapers, videos, movies.
On the other hand, the new business equipment, apparatus and instruments given
the rapid advancement of technology in all fields, whose instructions are constantly
arriving, either installation, operation use, maintenance and cleaning, usually come
mostly in English. Knowledge of the language of Shakespeare in these cases is
very useful and profitable.
English is the language of telecommunications with 80% of electronically stored
information. Of the estimated 40 million Internet users overall, 80% currently
communicating in English. Most sites are published in English. In addition, the
percentage of network users who are not native English speakers is increasing
rapidly, especially in Asia.
Moreover, virtually all institutions of any kind have computers to facilitate the work,
and any accustomed to handle person knows that although many of the software
are already translated into Castilian, often find themselves in situations where it is
necessary to know English to understand interactive computer language.
It is also essential to know English when traveling or on vacation abroad: for
shopping, to take a conveyance without getting lost, ask for the bill in a restaurant,
to contact the people and their culture broadly. No matter what place to go, if
English is spoken are likely to find another person who also speak, something that
could bail on more than one occasion. It is also a plus for the Spanish tourism
hotels, attractions, etc., given the large number of foreign clients who come to the
most diverse geographical areas of our country.
It is also the language of entertainment and popular culture: the music industry and
film, video games, etc.

In the field of studies, is a key tool for academic success, especially in certain
careers in which it is required to obtain the degree requirement. It is by far the most
popular language taught in schools throughout Europe, reaching 46% of students
in primary and 91% secondary. In Spain, however, despite the foreign language
being predominant, only reaches a percentage of 36%. There are some data that
put us in a clear disadvantage compared to countries like Denmark, the
Netherlands and Sweden where 80% of the population speaks the English
language fluently.
It has therefore been here a very rapid proliferation of Official Language Schools,
not to mention the large number of private academies created, where over 80% of
the enrolled students studying English. And every year numerous scholarships are
awarded to students for learning and recycling abroad. In addition, we should also
mention all travel and exchanges organized to Britain, the United States and
Canada, mainly by both state initiative and private, for conducting courses.

CONCLUSION
Finally, learning another language helps people understand that the world is not all
alike, that there are cultural differences and develop confidence in their social
relationships because it improves their interaction with the environment, preparing

them for the future that will become increasingly demanding. For as many times as
it is mentioned: "The illiterate of the future will be those who do not operate a
computer and not dominate another language".
Obviously, all this display is not the result of chance, but a clear demonstration of
the undeniable importance of English.
So, your domain has become an increasingly pressing need. It is, in short, a
language everyone, like it or not, we have to accept. And it's never too late to learn!

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