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‘In My English's Purpose (Dhia Anugrah FEBRIANSA)’, Dhia Anugrah believes that "people will admire and respect you" if you learning english, this seems reasonable, but this circumstance may only happen that your English are excellent enough. For example, your English is even better than the local people in Australia. Actually people might only respect you if you make some success or are unique in some area. Specifically, English just a simple tool similar with mobile phone and computer. These tools may be special in remote area or few decades ago, but it is very common in many places now. Therefore, I firmly think the key to let others respect you is wether you are unique.

However, I agree with his opinion that “With English, you'll feel powerful”, regardless it is a little emotive. English, as a lingua franca, is widespread all over the world, especially in business area. This tool can expand our outlook which enables us to enter a new platform. In his platform, we can access more resource than before, such as global market, international friends and transnational funding. If we do not own this tool, our mind or ability might be limited in our own nation. Admit, there are still some students who are learning English do not feel powerful now, they feel more comfortable that after learning English because they have more choices.

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english ,as international language ,which has prevailed all over the world .in Asia,more and more countries encourage its local people to learn english .even if some experters suggest that government should make english as their official language.in terms of internent ,a survey made by google shows that about 80%internent words written in english .in some african countries ,english has became to the national language which is instead of native words .it is doubtless that some countrise ,such as French,intend to repalce its status.but ,it is impossible to happen.it is a fact that the most powful countries in this world which speak english.it spreads its influence by television ,radio,or trade.in order to do business with these countries ,the poorer will english positively.

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On the discussion topic of ‘English is under attack’, Yi ZHAO thinks it is ‘an unreliable idea’, but we can also infer that “some experts suggest that government should make English as their official language” also can be a result of those experts finding English under attacked. It can be seen that France uses more aggressive way to promote French. If I had known that learning French is free in France universities, I would have went France to study. It is quite attractive that the tuition fee of studying abroad is expressive for students from developing countries. What about mandarin? With the increasingly growth of Chinese business man all over the road and the popular of China ancient philosophy which can help the world find a way to solve global problems, the language of this largest population power will also the potential alternative in the future.