National Language

Blog #3

We should feel lucky to live in the US because it is full of culture. The US is known as the “Melting Pot” since people from different countries come together in one common place. The US is very diverse in culture, language, and traditions. I think that language diversity is unique. We get to hear other people talk and form new sounds that we might not be used to hearing. I would not like it if we had a national language because language diversity would not be unique. I think that if we apply a national language we take away the value of language diversity. People might not want to learn other languages once they acquire the national language because there would not be a need for that. Having a national language would allow them to communicate with anyone in the world, learning a different language would be a waste of time. I think the fact that we don’t have a national language is a motivation to learn a second language, we want to be able to communicate with more people, so we learn a new language, but if we can already communicate with others then we might choose to learn to do something else, like how to sew.