Is English important?

This question depends entirely on your life goals, trajectory design and the height of self-pursuit.

It doesn't matter if you live in an environment where there is no foreign language for almost a lifetime.

This is very, very important if you want to study abroad or immigrate.

Most people may stay at home, but their work is more or less related to foreign languages. For example, I am a programmer by profession, and English is very important. Information and knowledge based on foreign languages are enormous.

Besides, learning a foreign language can open up a kind of thinking and broaden one's horizons.

English is not important. English is the only language at the bottom in many fields in the world.

I hope China will develop in the future, which is not in conflict with admitting this. )

At present, the effective amount of dry goods information in the English world is probably beyond the reach of all other languages. It's just that many people can't perceive it in their daily lives.

What are the Internet portraits of ordinary young people in China at present? Not to mention Tik Tok headlines, a platform with low information efficiency, but even the three best writing platforms, Zhihu, Weibo and WeChat official account, pay attention to excellent bloggers. In fact, many of our things are still carried from the external network.

Because there are not many technical advantages in China at present, the platform itself is likely to be dominated by English.

At present, there are not rich local cultural products in China, most of which are based on other languages, and we often compile them, among which English accounts for a considerable proportion.

If the proportion of English in culture and art is not so high (the reason why the proportion of Japanese and European cultures is not bad), then English is more dominant in the economic field. Even you will find that the economic barometer and the most authoritative information of many other languages can be found in English, but not necessarily in their mother tongue.

I found this very late and didn't realize it until I was about 25 years old. The best foreign language I spoke at that time was Italian, followed by Spanish. Because of Italy's anti-English mentality, it also influenced me when I was in college and just out of campus, which led me to avoid English for a long time, and I was a little proud. Later, the more in-depth the information, the more I can perceive that the English platform is the best, and there is no one. No language is more worth spending time than English.

But at that time, except for English reading ability, oral English was unqualified (usable, not fluent and not standard) until today. Therefore, I have been making up my English for several years, and this process is likely to continue uninterrupted.