Should We Speak French English Language?

English, you can hardly ignore it. Everywhere we look and wherever you search, you will always find some English. That is why in many countries like Belgium, supporters of the English language advise their language to be taught at school as the countries’ second language. On the other hand, supporters of another language like French also want that their language becomes the second tongue. In a world that never sleeps, this ‘conflict’ is very current and necessary. Is the tuition of English as a second language of a nation better than to teach French to pupils?

In a world where the stock market and the economy is dominated by English, it is hard not to admit that English is the future in technology, science and economics. Other than Dutch, English is spoken as a mother tongue or as the second official language in most of the economy dominating countries like Great-Britain, the USA as well as India and next to the Mandarin language of the uprising economic nation

The chronicler Johan Anthierens of the magazine Knack once wrote in 1980: “Twenty-five years ago we spoke Flemish and we knew French, today we do not speak Dutch and we have forgotten how to speak French.” Even now in 2015, thirty years after Johan Anthierens wrote this in his article, the situation has not improved. The children in the Wallonian schools learn indeed the Dutch language but they still cannot manage to speak it properly. However the number of students who can speak Dutch is rising increasingly while on the other side, the level of French spoken by Flemish students is becoming worse every year. The situation that everybody said the Flemish people could speak many languages is not completely valid anymore. If we want to turn this around again to what it was before, the Flemish schools should need to focus more on languages frequently spoken in the world like English, German, French or even