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Oct 19, 2011 20:10
Well, English is studied in almost every school around the world and if that is not enough there’s a big business related to the matter. The curious thing is that English is not something necessarily linked to the countries to the countries where they come from and their cultures. For example, you study Japanese or Korean to approach to Japanese or Korean stuff. English itself works more as a sort of global transactional intermediary or at least you use it to consume Hollywood movies and that kind of things, not to mention the people just learn it in order to work in The United States.

I find English written articles in the Wikipedia more rich than those in my own language (Spanish) in general (not regional) topics. I feel too that there’s more available and less restricted information on the Net in English. So I not only want to take advantage of that but also backwards... vice-versa?... by learning to generate content in English so I can have a wider audience (I’m one of those attention thirsty bloggers that are left on the Blogsphere :P haha!)
floury
Thank you for your correction!
Oct 19, 2011 23:50
  • Well, English is studied in almost every school around the world and if that is not enough there’s a big business related to the matter.

  • Well, English is studied in almost every school around the world, and if that is not enough, there’s a big business related to the matter. Two commas added. Do you mean the big business of teaching English, or the large amount of international business that requires English? It's unclear.

 
  • The curious thing is that English is not something necessarily linked to the countries to the countries where they come from and their cultures.

  • The interesting thing is that English is not something necessarily linked to the countries to the countries where they come from and their cultures. I'm not sure what "they" refers to.

 
  • For example, you study Japanese or Korean to approach to Japanese or Korean stuff.

  • For example, you study Japanese or Korean to approach to Japanese or Korean stuff.

 
  • English itself works more as a sort of global transactional intermediary or at least you use it to consume Hollywood movies and that kind of things, not to mention the people just learn it in order to work in The United States.

  • English itself works more as a sort of global transactional intermediary, or at least you use it to watch Hollywood movies and those kinds of things, not to mention the people who just learn it in order to work in the United States. Comma added

 
  • I find English written articles in the Wikipedia more rich than those in my own language (Spanish) in general (not regional) topics.

  • I find English written articles in the Wikipedia to be more detailed than those in my own language (Spanish) in general (not regional) topics.

 
  • I feel too that there’s more available and less restricted information on the Net in English.

  • I also feel too that there’s more available and less restricted information on the internet in English.

 
  • So I not only want to take advantage of that but also backwards...

  • So I not only want to take advantage of that but also backwards...

 
  • vice-versa?...

  • vice-versa?...

 
  • by learning to generate content in English so I can have a wider audience (I’m one of those attention thirsty bloggers that are left on the Blogsphere :P haha!)

  • learn to generate content in English so I can have a wider audience (I’m one of those attention-hungry bloggers that are left in the blogosphere :P haha!)

 

Very good. Welcome to lang-8! What's your blog?

Also, what part of Colombia are you from? I live in Medellín and used to live in Bogotá :)

Oct 20, 2011 17:35 Goubree
Thanks, Floury. My English blog is "thisonetooplease.blogspot.com" (you'll see tons of commas lacking there, haha) I'm from Bogotá (hate that city, by the way). So, do you speak Spanish? Nice too meet you.
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