Patricia Ryan came to the Persian Gulf over 30 years ago, contracted by the British Council to teach English in Kuwait, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, etc ..
She explains that she has lived a lot of changes in this area, as many changes have occurred in the world also, for example that languages nowadays are disappearing faster than ever, every 14 days disappears a language and when a language dies we don’t know what dies with it.
It makes us think about the importance of knowing how to speak English, no doubt, to succeed in the world of nowadays you have to speak English, you have tu study in a British or American University. But also it is not fair that there lbe a ot of people who cannot access to this learning. She expresses that not to speak English is not equivalent to not having good knowledge, and failing an English exam doesn’t mean that they haven’t an impressive and necessary cultural wealth for other people
She ends saying that we have to celebrate our diversity, we must take care of our language and we have to use it to share ideas.
Boja Galofré
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