English as the International Language

[00:00:00] because they were a whole, and to be honest all the staff officers that I met with, they admitted to me that

[00:00:07] it was that I was me personally that I was weird because I knew more than one language. Because

[00:00:12] they always took even the NATO guys always took the the British, Canadians, and the the Dutch

[00:00:19] there they told the joke like what do you call someone who speaks two languages, bilingual?

[00:00:23] How about if they speak two languages, bilingual? What if they speak more language? American?

[00:00:28] American. We are such a disadvantage I think because we're isolated and I don't think that our

[00:00:34] government really cares about like the school system, but learning. Well, we don't have to at

[00:00:39] the entire planet spends their education and energy learning English why because it's the only thing

[00:00:45] it's language of business and therefore it is now the de facto international language.

[00:01:04] And then welcome back to Rhythm and Roam with Benef, Paul, and Trecia where we discuss our

[00:01:09] travel adventures and explore cultural differences similarities and misconceptions

[00:01:15] and guess what we're bringing the crazy today I guarantee you that.

[00:01:22] All right well so you saw the joke about what do you call a person that speaks one language

[00:01:30] or yeah American right so basically we have that reputation of just being people that

[00:01:37] don't give a rat's ass about any other language. Everybody always have jokes about Americans,

[00:01:43] but everybody want to emulate us you know I'm I was talking to my friend here in France and

[00:01:51] obviously they always talk about you know why do we always automatically assume people speak

[00:01:59] English. Which is a good question. It is a good question so I mean there could be

[00:02:07] multiple reasons right so we've got the British that basically colonized the entire

[00:02:11] fucking world who speak English. Do you include? Well the French do too as well remember.

[00:02:17] With the Netherlands and Portugal and who else let's see yes France but yeah the Dutch.

[00:02:27] Okay so why out of all those languages is English the world so why not why aren't we

[00:02:31] all speaking French? That's a good question because I wish I could speak first because that's

[00:02:38] a very sexy language but what's that yeah what is the answer Tricia you said it's a very simple

[00:02:45] answer. Very simple answer after World War II the United States had a lot of let's say a lot of

[00:02:53] let's say a lot of collateral they had a lot of say so and basically stepped into that

[00:03:00] international footprint and they became the superpower that we are today so why we feel

[00:03:10] so and we've continued to do that and have dominance over everything that has to do

[00:03:16] with anything global any of the global organizations not global organizations

[00:03:20] everyone looks to the United States for the answer. So automatically you know we automatically think

[00:03:29] that folk speak English that's the historical aspect of it. I would say part of it is true but I

[00:03:36] have to say we probably was dominant before that meaning probably World War II of course too yeah

[00:03:44] or even before then too as well you know what I mean like I just feel like. Dude quit fucking with

[00:03:49] the camera what are you doing? I'm sorry I was trying to make it seem like I was I was trying to

[00:03:54] be incognito but clearly that it was not incognito all right. I think it's okay well I guess so does

[00:04:04] that mean that after World War II and when we you know basically colonized Germany and Japan

[00:04:12] and just and Korea came shortly after and we just stayed there forever people had to learn

[00:04:18] English because we damn sure weren't going to learn some other language. Yeah I think that

[00:04:24] but we're only talking about one continent for Korean Out Loud or two continents that's why I

[00:04:29] say this has to be more than that. I just think English language is very easy and the Brits obviously

[00:04:37] what do you mean easy? No English language is not easy. It is easy. It is extremely easy.

[00:04:43] You are American it's your first language. Oh my god I get it. It's not easy. It's easy compared to

[00:04:52] French. Please chime in if you have English is your English language and maybe you have more than

[00:05:00] one language that you know but I see French people that have a problem with French. No listen

[00:05:07] the English the English language has words have so many different meanings and so many different

[00:05:13] inflections and yes but we personally do because not only do we have our own words but we adopt words

[00:05:21] also from other cultures and other languages well of course from Latin from all different

[00:05:28] books of life. It makes perfect sense. English is hard it really is. It's so bland and basic I hate.

[00:05:35] All right says the American. I just think no I just think it's a simple language which

[00:05:39] I'm fine with. I'm just saying it is not compared to French compared to German compared to Mandarin

[00:05:46] now as an adult trying to learn it of course not but even when I was younger

[00:05:52] even when I was younger when we were in school people wanted to speak Spanish when they say go

[00:05:57] learn another language we always because that's the second language because there's a lot of

[00:06:04] Spanish people within America that I understand that but in general Spanish speakers yeah Spanish

[00:06:11] speakers yes in America yes but my point is is that we or our language is very and I'm not trying

[00:06:22] it's not putting anything down it's easy for someone to pick it up versus us picking up French

[00:06:29] it's not easy to pick up French. So here how about this I think I maybe I see where you're going I'm

[00:06:35] gonna twist it maybe because I think that I will agree with you that our language when someone

[00:06:43] it's not there you know it's their second language English is their second language when

[00:06:46] they try to speak it we can understand them if it's broken or if there's an

[00:06:52] accent because we have so many different ways to pronounce one word potato potato tomato

[00:06:58] we can interpret what they're saying whereas if I'm trying to speak French and I pronounce it

[00:07:02] shant wrong or Japanese they will look at me like I'm insane like it's not a word. I was I was

[00:07:09] getting ready to agree with you the whole way Bonaf until you did that because I'm like

[00:07:14] don't include the French in that because the French if you're not perfect that's what I just

[00:07:20] said if we if I go to try to speak French and I pronounce it wrong they look at me as if I'm

[00:07:24] insane yeah but that's not because right that's just a cultural thing that's not because the language

[00:07:31] that's just a cultural thing okay well okay so so we talked about we talked about the colonialism

[00:07:39] of it right and we talked about as far as the strongest and largest economy right right

[00:07:44] so what about the effects of tv media music I was just about my next thing I was gonna say

[00:07:51] that is the reason why they speak English very well or easy to pick it up because they have no choice

[00:08:00] because our music comes over here in English they sing it I really do feel that social media

[00:08:07] the media and all of our westernized culture impacted the world and because of that and

[00:08:15] I really really truly feel with the media and our capital helped with everyone learning English

[00:08:25] because they everyone because they know we travel a lot we as an Americans we tend to travel and

[00:08:32] live all over the world a lot and when we go and I do feel that way sometimes sometimes when

[00:08:38] I'm in a certain place and someone and especially when I tell them I'm from New York or I'm

[00:08:43] from the States I sometimes feel that I do get slight bit of a treatment of oh he's gonna

[00:08:50] spend a lot of money or he's gonna tip me or something like that because they know us as

[00:08:55] tippers and I mean I can have a well but if you went to a you know the restaurant across

[00:09:01] the street from where I live and I could tell you when I was I can go there at any time when

[00:09:07] they're very packed and busy and I will have a chair and the reason why I will have a chair

[00:09:11] is because I screwed up one time and I gave the man a 20 year old tip thinking it was not a big deal

[00:09:19] because I had a lot of food with 20 euros so so they're okay speaking English with you there

[00:09:24] they don't be like you must speak all right can't do well they don't speak English that well but

[00:09:28] what they'll do is they make sure that I have a table whenever I want because they know I'm

[00:09:34] gonna tip them and they will try their best to speak English matter of fact they even have

[00:09:39] an English menu because they know that we're going to create it the English menu for you well

[00:09:46] I don't know if they created it for me but all of a sudden the next time I came back

[00:09:51] there was an English menu so here's that's interesting so to it's a small place so

[00:09:59] kind of turn off of that then so you know what are the advantages then since we're talking about

[00:10:04] that in the sense and you just you just mentioned it you know ease of traveling abroad right

[00:10:07] you're likely to have someone who can speak English right yes or no um you know do we

[00:10:14] automatically look for that and it's funny because it's comfortable I'm not gonna I'm not gonna lie

[00:10:19] especially if it's a language I'm going somewhere that I don't know the language like China or you

[00:10:26] know Indonesia I'm not going to be able to learn enough to converse in those two languages

[00:10:33] but it's more than likely that the people in that then the hospitality industry are going to

[00:10:37] know English and so when I was in jajikistan I was in jajikistan I can't even say the word

[00:10:43] I was there and I never forget there was a guy that was like oh America America and then he

[00:10:50] started singing the national anthem what like how did he know the national anthem oh see can you see

[00:10:58] like how did he know that if you watch any sporting event

[00:11:07] uh international sporting event yeah I know I mean I'm being a little smart ass about it but I'm just

[00:11:12] saying the point is is that jajikistan why would they know the american anthem well he was trying

[00:11:18] to impress you it's obvious obviously I don't know why but you're right I don't know what their

[00:11:23] national anthem is trying that's my point the benefit now the now let me turn it the other way

[00:11:29] the benefit of the country or the person that you're speaking to and we you've alluded this

[00:11:34] stuff you know to your story just a minute ago uh Paul or you mentioned that is because they

[00:11:39] know we have money so there's a benefit to them yes yes and they know and especially when you go

[00:11:45] to the small the countries that are not economically sound you know um like we've been in the middle east

[00:11:54] you know and stuff like this and I can tell you even when I when I was living in Jordan or

[00:12:01] or when I was living in Turkey like they value the fact of wanting to speak English or Korea

[00:12:08] they value us wanting to speak English because they know we're going to spend and that's our

[00:12:13] connection communication wise I think between both languages because we will ask them small

[00:12:19] different phrases and then they will you know but I don't know if it's all money money really no I

[00:12:27] don't think it's sometimes the people genuinely want to practice their English correct correct yeah

[00:12:33] I stand corrected it's not just money but also this is for sure thing we infiltrated many different

[00:12:43] countries due to war and stayed so that helped their English we stayed Korea yeah yeah Germany

[00:12:54] well you know a lot of the the agreements that we have you know after wars with these countries

[00:13:00] they are like that they're in English well and for example with Japan like all the negotiations

[00:13:06] that we did they were all written in English and that has been from World War two like that

[00:13:12] the language for agreement is English because you know what American is going to try to learn

[00:13:16] Japanese like it's not an easy language to read well and then also we won so we got to say

[00:13:25] and I bet you did not have a translation of any sort when they signed that agreement

[00:13:30] sure they did no no I'm saying in paper on paper you thought oh yeah yeah yeah no no no no no I mean

[00:13:37] but I mean they had a translator yes probably precise um the other the other thing too that we

[00:13:43] should we should probably mention of course is um you know many countries English is

[00:13:47] the is I mean learned at school but we don't have reciprocity here yeah I mean what we do

[00:13:54] but it's not mandatory though yeah I mean like I think maybe in high school you have to have a year or

[00:14:00] two well you have three years of what you do what depends on the state right of language to Paul

[00:14:06] that's the whole sorry I know you have no no no no no I mean of English or whatever but I'm just

[00:14:13] saying different language not English we are talking about United States that's if you are going

[00:14:20] to go to higher education you will need two years of foreign language of a foreign language okay yeah

[00:14:25] but it's not like you got it you only have to pass it's not like you got to be taking a test to

[00:14:29] show your proficiency no no an international test to be like I can actually see no Spanish

[00:14:35] anywhere other than but I can tell you here in France it is not advantageous for people to learn

[00:14:43] English I can 100% tell you French is very proud and they have in like laws that you will

[00:14:52] like French is what everyone will learn well are they learning a second language at all well yes but

[00:14:59] it's not they're kind of like Americans it's not forced upon them like France right now and this

[00:15:05] is statistically proven everybody can look it up they're down on the lower scale of

[00:15:11] all the European countries that know English they're like almost dead last now I want to now

[00:15:20] I want to look it up yeah please please do I saw that the other day and I read an article about

[00:15:27] French being the France being the lowest when it comes to well it does that doesn't matter

[00:15:34] is that a problem is that something that we to the French it's not because they're proud

[00:15:39] that they want everyone like they're afraid I don't I'm talking out of term but they might be afraid

[00:15:46] that they don't want because there's an immigration influx that their language becomes secondary

[00:15:52] they don't want that to happen and it does happen in English or no secondary to French

[00:15:59] like they want French to be the prominent language well right and they're okay so there

[00:16:03] are they you're saying they're concerned that their language is going to become secondary

[00:16:06] to English or some other language well to some other language or English wherever yeah what it's

[00:16:11] kind of like us in America you go down to Miami you're not going to hear a lot of English yeah

[00:16:19] you know and stuff like this so that's my or even Texas for that matter in certain spots so

[00:16:27] they want to make sure that they put in there and I mean it makes sense that's their

[00:16:33] their language they people should make sure that they speak in French I mean oh I agree with you I'm

[00:16:38] just like hey you're in America and you're going to be a citizen well please learn English we only

[00:16:45] have one national language well that's true but let's be honest we tend to have translation for the

[00:16:52] top three most popular languages France they don't I really have something that's sent to me in

[00:17:00] English railing everything is sent to me in French and they do that on purpose

[00:17:08] and it's not bad I'm here I should learn it so it helps me to learn of course but sometimes

[00:17:15] it's frustrating because I can't just sit and just read something right through

[00:17:19] I have to focus so sometimes that does get annoying but I get it and I respect it

[00:17:26] I just think that that's the difference between the languages and stuff like that and why English is

[00:17:32] such an important language and why do all countries learn it and I think it's I honestly think capitalism

[00:17:39] has something to do with that I know for a fact that that's the only thing I mean I would think

[00:17:44] that that would be the number one reason as to why I would I would agree with you Trisha

[00:17:49] because there's no other reason money talks and everything else and then our culture will come

[00:17:57] along with it you know so it's the colonialism the money in the culture because I mean like

[00:18:05] the you know just about everything is made in China why aren't we speaking Chinese

[00:18:10] you know because it's a it's not but China is it's not a allied country okay so

[00:18:21] oh okay that has something to do with it too as well I think that's but here here's a list here's

[00:18:27] a list of 10 countries with the most English speakers so just English speakers in the country

[00:18:33] and I couldn't find a list right away for this but I mean for specifically the country

[00:18:41] demanding that so I have to see if I can look that up but first one is India surprise surprise

[00:18:46] anyone well I think that that might be the the common language for them because each state

[00:18:51] is speaking a different language in English correct and so they have English as their

[00:18:55] common language to unite all the different states yeah it says English is the second most

[00:19:01] widely spoken second language so they may speak their own dialect but English but then if they go

[00:19:07] over to the next state it's a different language entirely I one of my partners in when I was taking

[00:19:15] classes with Oregon State was Indian and she said that that's why they they all know English

[00:19:20] because like the next like can you imagine going to New Mexico and like they speaking

[00:19:24] a different language not English and so and just so you know also there's a hybrid language

[00:19:32] um in India that combines words of Hindi of Hindi um and English and it's called English

[00:19:40] English English okay English yeah kind of like kind of like Spanglish right well besides the United

[00:19:48] States believe it or not India was was the most yes they do yeah um so we're going to skip over us

[00:19:57] but say Pakistan okay Pakistan next door that's next door to India so is next and then Nigeria

[00:20:06] is the next when Nigeria speaks English automatically uh huh of why is that because of the British

[00:20:14] because of the British influence that's right that's true um several state actually several

[00:20:19] Nigerian English words and phrases are recognized by the Oxford English Dictionary I can see that I

[00:20:24] can see as in the next tomorrow or the day after tomorrow supposedly those are those are the words

[00:20:30] um Philippines is the next I can see that too as well that's true my old boss was Filipino

[00:20:38] Philippine English speakers sometimes use the plural verb form with a single subject and so that's

[00:20:44] where the difference is and then of course the United Kingdom obviously there's English speakers

[00:20:48] there yeah uh Tanzania I can see that as well the Republic of Tanzania uh beautiful beautiful

[00:20:59] country by the way oh and a lot of times they're using English or they're using French in

[00:21:06] Africa as a language to to unite because they have so many tribal languages and also colonialism

[00:21:12] they decided to use French or English French or English as their own languages um though they're

[00:21:18] though I did do some research and now I've forgotten which country so I'm not even going to say it

[00:21:24] but this country was trying they were rejecting French and trying to use one of their own languages

[00:21:30] as the common language instead of French so try and go back to one of the tribal but I feel like

[00:21:36] I feel like we're literally just scratching the surface which I'm sure that's all we can do

[00:21:42] I just feel like there's more to why the English language is very dominant and Trisha you're

[00:21:50] right it is capitalism for one but you know what like I think but if you you alluded to it

[00:21:56] the Chinese have a lot of money or the Asians have a lot of money too as well um well so here's

[00:22:02] where I will agree with you Paul English is I think a lot easier than flip a Chinese and

[00:22:09] Raleigh or any of the yeah I interviewed Raleigh and we should listen to her trying to speak

[00:22:17] Chinese all right I am here with Raleigh the owner of paint nail salon in Colorado Springs

[00:22:24] which I attend and I love because it's toxic free and everything is super chill and fun

[00:22:31] but you are like a traveler and have lived abroad in Europe and Asia um so in Singapore

[00:22:40] there's it there's a bigger expo population there okay which is interesting that Singapore was

[00:22:47] incredible it was so clean it is it was so clean and it was so beautiful and um I just yeah we we

[00:22:55] loved it there it was it was great um we I tried to learn some um Mandarin before we went because

[00:23:03] you know that's right that's definitely what they speak yeah um they also have some of their

[00:23:08] dialects and um and quite a few people spoke English but I still like when we travel I still

[00:23:14] like to try you know some phrases exactly yeah we um and so I'm trying to learn thank you

[00:23:21] and for anybody that knows me under it I mean I think that my my skill set in maybe various

[00:23:28] Asian languages is not very good like the pronunciation of things is so different than

[00:23:35] English or German or French or anything like that and so I really I really struggled with thank you

[00:23:44] because in at least in my pronunciation I would do the google translate and I would just

[00:23:51] put it up to you know put it up to to my mouth I would say you know thank you because I would have

[00:23:56] her say it have her say it have her say it to me the google translate yeah okay I can I can

[00:24:00] okay I can do this and so every time I would say it she would I'd do it the other way around

[00:24:06] English and so I'd say it and the google translate says sex I'm like oh god what and so then I look up

[00:24:16] that word and it sounds very similar at least to my ears like the tonal difference is probably like

[00:24:23] something we can't hear because we don't have tone right yes exactly it just sounded so similar

[00:24:31] and it looks similar even in the like phonetic way that it would translate to me and how it would

[00:24:39] say it on the screen and so I'm like I'm gonna be the most ungrateful person because I don't want

[00:24:44] to be over there you know someone like serves me like a meal and I'm just like sexed well so

[00:24:53] so as we saw from Raleigh or heard from Raleigh's story is that that language

[00:25:00] there's a lot of tone it's confusing so you know if you're going up or down or flat it means something

[00:25:05] different and like yes American we do have inflection but the inflection does not change

[00:25:12] the meaning of the word so that's such a way that now it's like it means sex instead of thank you

[00:25:19] you know like that we don't have I mean so okay so let me defend my European brother

[00:25:26] brethren's they have a problem I know my German friends they always tell me about the words that

[00:25:34] bothers them that mean the same is you know the this there the those you know those type of right

[00:25:42] words you mean there they're there they're there they're there they're there they're there

[00:25:47] T H E R E yeah those are the same like genes and you know the words that that are that are from the

[00:25:55] front of your mouth kind of thing oh bothers them okay because they can't say it because they're not

[00:26:01] used to speaking well and that's the thing but when they say the they say the word maybe they

[00:26:06] mispronounce it do we still understand them of course because we're trained but I think it's

[00:26:12] because we're trained to be nice to understand and but also we well yes Americans don't want to be like

[00:26:20] what the fuck are you saying I don't understand exactly the French will be that's like sorry I

[00:26:26] don't but I do feel like the burden is on the the English speaker to really try to understand them

[00:26:33] because they're trying to speak our language so we like our overly polite and like I don't know

[00:26:38] what you're saying but I'm really trying but I think it's it's our training I really do think

[00:26:43] it's because that's what we were taught to do regardless even if they speak English to us and

[00:26:48] it's broken I just feel like because I remember when I was younger my parents told me if someone

[00:26:54] is asking you questions be polite and you try to help if you try to help them try to help yeah

[00:27:00] but I appreciate that that's the one does that for me I do yeah exactly what it's a nice way of saying

[00:27:06] that though I mean that's a nice part though is that you're right capitalism is the number one thing

[00:27:12] but I think there's a determination of like I said and I will try to find that article so that

[00:27:19] you guys can read it again it's one of those things where some countries fear that their

[00:27:23] language is going to become secondary because of what's happening so they want to force to make

[00:27:30] sure it doesn't whereas I think America might even try to do the same thing but they don't

[00:27:36] because we are melting pot and we're okay with this believe that there's a resurgence in that though

[00:27:43] because uh because we have become more global the field that people are really trying to

[00:27:49] you know especially with ancestry and you know and that sort of thing everyone's really trying to

[00:27:53] you know for for lack of better words and I can't think of my own words right now but

[00:27:59] you know with dr. loose gates where he does the finding your roots and you know all the

[00:28:04] same yes yes yes we have they have these you know this this real resurgence of trying to find

[00:28:11] where you are your your origin right so you know before when folks were migrating to the

[00:28:17] United States early on you know manifest destiny and all those wonderful things um you know most

[00:28:23] people were looking at you know they wanted to be American it was something to be American so

[00:28:30] you had to learn the language right you have the reason why people came over was because of the

[00:28:35] freedom and the possibility make a new land right new land new opportunities so they so it was

[00:28:43] it was a must to learn the language but now like again like I said you know with the global you

[00:28:48] know this resurgence of global you know the 23 me and everyone's trying you know now it's about

[00:28:53] trying to come back to who you know what's your ancestry you know what what you know who am I

[00:29:00] kind of question answering those questions so um you know I feel like I feel like everyone's

[00:29:06] trying to to get back why there's I mean how many freaking um apps are there to learn different

[00:29:14] languages I mean think about it there's babble there's you know there's you know fuzeta stone

[00:29:19] there's like all these different you know but I mean let's scratch the surface yeah but to ring

[00:29:25] it back into as well because I feel a little some kind of way to be honest with you because I

[00:29:31] feel like different countries respect the fact of wanting to learn well number one I respect the

[00:29:37] fact that majority of everyone here in Europe knows at least two to three different languages

[00:29:44] I think that's in our nature to be the person to do that and I and I'm it's the same with me

[00:29:51] when I like again when I lived in Germany and I was on a date and you know I ordered dessert

[00:30:00] and it was flaw with flaw it's like a custard yeah it's like a custard but it's jiggly it's very

[00:30:09] jiggly jiggly yes very yes I don't I'm not a fan be honest well I am a I am a fan now that I'm in

[00:30:15] France because I'm actually getting real flaw and it's really good however I had it in Germany

[00:30:22] and I just remember the taste when I tasted it it was just disgusting and she asked me she's like

[00:30:30] what's wrong I was like I don't like it it's nasty and she's like why is it not I was like because

[00:30:35] look at it it's shaking it's it's mushy it's nasty it's so mushy and she's like stop saying this

[00:30:42] word please and I could see her getting right red and then I noticed people started because I

[00:30:49] was loud like a typical American you're like hey you're like shouting it's mushy because she wasn't

[00:30:54] listening to me and I was like it's mushy look at it it's jiggly and she's like stop seeing this

[00:30:59] and then this old man behind me was just laughing his ass off hysterically like you know and that

[00:31:04] was just like why is that and she's like stop saying that she finally tells me what the word

[00:31:09] mean mushy which is something that we would say like oh it's mushy it's nasty yeah all right

[00:31:16] that's the word that's a p-word that's the woman's vagina in German so I'm like not a clinical term

[00:31:25] for vagina like a slang term like the slang term that's this that's that's why she was really

[00:31:33] like embarrassed and I was just like well I didn't know on a date yeah

[00:31:38] you know and I'm like was your date German too was she German yeah she's German she was uh

[00:31:44] what was she doing I'll let you're saying she was bright red she was bright red and embarrassed

[00:31:49] is what it was and I was just like oh my god this is oh that's good years ago years ago

[00:31:56] oh my god so you're pointing at dessert dessert being like it's that's funny because

[00:32:02] because those and that's why I said they're different words you would know that they're

[00:32:07] different words in English that mean something totally different absolutely yeah so I think

[00:32:14] that's it for us today guys great talk like great talk I drank enough wine for today and we it was

[00:32:20] all in English I will add all in English again yes it was it was all in English so however

[00:32:26] why don't we do something a little bit more you know Benef you can maybe say something in French

[00:32:33] because I don't want to do that that's all we're getting folks that is all we're getting I don't

[00:32:42] know what she just said today well I would say for you to go ahead and uh and uh wish our

[00:32:49] subscribers to or wish our prospective subscribers um to uh go with it and subscribe

[00:32:55] comment and like yeah we're better off really we do want to hear your thoughts on

[00:33:02] English as the international language or absolutely why you know if you have whatever

[00:33:08] opinions that you have we would definitely be interested to hear those absolutely absolutely so

[00:33:14] we would we definitely want your feedback um and what you think is the number one reason

[00:33:18] as to why the English language is the dominant language you know across across the continent so

[00:33:25] with that we're going to say goodbye for now we'll see you again real soon next week but

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