There are many good reasons for understanding the English language. not only is it a vital key to rising higher than food-picker and toilet-scrubber in the US, it’s also pretty much the ligua franca for science and technology around the world. There are, IIRC, substantially more English speakers in *India* than in the US… and put Indian and Chinese English speakers together and I bet you’d have the majority of the planetary population that can converse in that language. It is pretty much the Common Speech of Mankind.
In Brazil, they speak Portuguese. Brazil is doing pretty well economically, and may become quite well off. Even so, many there know that learning English is vital for many endeavors. And so, there’s a company that specializes in teaching languages such as English. They have produced a commercial that points out just how incredibly important a proficiency in English can be.
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