Every 8-years-old child in every speaking society around the world knows that in some point of his life, to make some success, he will have to study English. The educational systems will never tell you that the best way of learning English, accept for moving to America, is watching movies. And that's how he finds himself sitting in a conditioner-less class (or with a broken one), repeating a list of words that ten years later, when he will actually need them, he will find in some online dictionary.
The English joins automatically to a list of all the international languages that we have no idea how they got there. The previous in that list is the Aramaic, whose writing reminds the writing of a cross-eyed student after coping in a Hebrew exam. The Esperanto can enter this list too, because that is probably the only international language that hasn't been spoken even by one nation. The only beautiful thing about the English being an international language, is the fact that many Americans can try to speak English with aliens and honestly expect them to understand, but in interaction with business-men from Japan, the English speakers will insist to study Chinese (yes, I know that they speak Japanese in Japan).
English is really a nice language, the problems begin when after studying "perfect future" for four years, from 6th to 10th grade, a week before the finals in 11th class you ask your teacher about the forgotten tense and she tells you in a smile: "oh, that? You don't use that." damned, couldn't you tell me that four years ago?
And really, the only place where you can find the use of everything that has ever entered your brain while you were sleeping in English classes during the high school, is foreign movies of unspeaking English countries that are bagging for American attention.
Bet hey, I really like English! :)
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