無題001 English is the global lingua franca, and nowadays it is necessary to learn the language no matter what. I speak American English (or something close to that) with a little bit of east asian accent. English has helped me stay connected to the rest of the world and helped me to become a better person. I think I'm pretty fluent in english but I hardly spoke any english to real person irl in the last 4 years or so. I feel like I need someone to talk to in english regularly to maintain my conversational skill. By the way, I sometimes think it would be better to have a whole new 'neutral' global lingua franca constructed by linguists. The new constructed language would be totally independent of any language or culture from the world (in contrast, esperanto is based on romance languages) so everyone would start from the same place at learning the global lingua franca. I was surely born too late for this grand project since too many people communicate in english nowadays.