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Topic : Why are we learning English?
Today we care a lot about learning English. In Korea, in order to learn English, young children are sent to academies, such as English kindergartens. Why do we insist on learning English?
The language percentage of internet content worldwide is monopolized by English by more than half of 59.9%. More than half of the Internet is in English, according to the data from W3Techs, an organization that researches the World Wide Web. Then, how about the proportion of Korean? According to W3Techs, it accounts for 0.6percent of the internet. That is, we are just missing the rest of 99.4% of the content. If we can master the language called English, we can dramatically expand the way we look at the world from 0.6 percent to 60.5 percent.
Based on the Internet content language ratio above, another example to prove it is doctors in white coat, who can be found in large university hospitals and all use English terms. They even say the words that they can say in Korean in English. When they study to become a doctor, all the books normally called doctor textbooks are in English. The reason for this is that modern medicine didn’t originate Korea but in other countries, so many mistakes occur in translating its terms into Korean and medical students have to spend a lot of time memorizing medical terms within a fixed time limit.
As the world's English usage is high, if we only look at Korea, it is similar to looking at the world from a narrow perspective. Among the examples above, if you learn business, you have to look at it from a wide perspective to grow, so there is a big reason to learn English. To know more about this, we are learning English.
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Today we care a lot about learning English. In Korea, in order to learn English, young children are sent to academies, such as English kindergartens. Why do we insist on learning English?
The language percentage of internet content worldwide is monopolized by English by more than half of 59.9%. More than half of the Internet is in English, according to the data from W3Techs, an organization that researches the World Wide Web. Then, how about the proportion of Korean? According to W3Techs, it accounts for 0.6percent of the internet. That is, we are just missing the rest of 99.4% of the content. If we can master the language called English, we can dramatically expand the way we look at the world from 0.6 percent to 60.5 percent.
Based on the Internet content language ratio above, another example to prove it is doctors in white coat, who can be found in large university hospitals and all use English terms. They even say the words that they can say in Korean in English. When they study to become a doctor, all the books normally called doctor textbooks are in English. The reason for this is that modern medicine didn’t originate Korea but in other countries, so many mistakes occur in translating its terms into Korean and medical students have to spend a lot of time memorizing medical terms within a fixed time limit.
As the world's English usage is high, if we only look at Korea, it is similar to looking at the world from a narrow perspective. Among the examples above, if you learn business, you have to look at it from a wide perspective to grow, so there is a big reason to learn English. To know more about this, we are learning English.
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Could you check for mistakes, especially the underlined parts and correct them?