Foreign Languages in England

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In the first text, the view is that people need to learn foreign languages, to be more open minded towards different cultures, being more welcoming for different people and also learning to be more global. Will Huston writes about young boys and girls who need to notice that it is important to learn foreign languages as it is a deep factor in industry and economy on a global level for England. In the second text by David Hughes is another view on the problem. He thinks that you, as an Englishman, could be much more relaxed when it comes to learning a foreign language, and instead let the other countries learn English. Let the other nationalities come to the English people. He describes that people all around the world want to learn English because it is a global language. Therefore exist no need for the English people to put an effort in learning foreign languages according to David Hughes. He writes that there is this uncertainty for the English people, a feel of doubt when it comes to picking the smartest (with focus on future) foreign language. Susan Purcell writes in the last text that there are few students in England who studies foreign languages because it is not obligatory as it is in many other European countries. She also bring up the fact that it does not make that big of a change in industrial context whether if the English people speak English or if they suddenly can speak a foreign language fluently. Looking at the text at a rhetorical✓ level, there’s no doubt, that she’s making great use of the ethos-appeal✓. If we think about it, she has never given us any particular evidence, that those she blames for causing the decrease in Britons speaking foreign languages are actually true. But we trust her anyway. Also she’s using a lot of logos✓, in the form of logical conclusion, to support her arguments, which could explain some of the
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