English Need to Learn
Learning English as a foreign language is sometimes interchanged with learning English as a second language. Indonesian, Thai, and Japanese people learn English as a foreign language, because they have their own official language that is Indonesian, Thai, and Japanese respectively. In big d=city in Indonesia, people speak Indonesian at home, in the shops and schools whereas in small towns or in village people speak Indonesian and vernaculars (Javanese, Balinese, Batak, etc) interchangeably. They speak only at schools in their English classrooms.
The Philippines has adopted English as a second language. English is an official language in the Philippines for different reason. The Philippines had been under successive foreign colonization, first Spanish and then American, for a long time. Even nowadays Spanish is still being taught in many high schools in Manila. In Philippines, people speak Tagalog mostly at home and English mostly outside, in the same way as the Indonesians living in Central or East Java speak Javanese at home and Indonesian outside. English has become an official language and a medium of instruction at schools. Even at kindergarten children speak English for communication. No wonder most people from the Philippines are very fluent in English.
Can Indonesian people also fluent in English ? We have to understand that English language is very important because it is international language. Miserable if heard that people of Indonesia don't know about it. Whereas if English language will be completely removed from education's curriculum. Although vernaculars must be conserved, but is better if English conserve too. Without decreasing our love with our nation, let's learn about English language. I think it is necessary do. We have to study hard about this so we also can fluent in English. Before that, we have to fluent in Indonesian. Our proud of Indonesian language is high, I hope one day Indonesian can be international language.
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