Fewer language
Topic: Every year several languages die out, some people think that this is not important because life will be easier if there are fewer languages in the world.
A hot debate on whether fewer language could let the life become more easier is widely discussed. Some people agreed that fewer language could unite people more closer than before. In long term perspective, I think the disadvantage of fewer language outweigh the advantage.
On the one hand, to start with the advantage of fewer language, people are likely to communicate with without language burden, the meaning could be easier to understand without translation. For instance, imagine we don’t need translator or google translation when we travel to other place where originally speak different language. There is no doubt that people would be likely to talk with different people. Thus, English has been perceived as the common language in the world, some countries now speak more English than their native language.
On the other hand, the demerits of fewer language can not be neglected, which will cause decreasing the culture diversity, and result in the loss of traditional culture. The disadvantage will reflect on some circumstance, for example, more and more children from Canton, China can no speak Cantonese due to the school encourage them to speak more Mandarin instead of Cantonese on campus. So the children would no be able to communicate with their grandparent who only able to speak Cantonese, at the same time, it is become more difficult to them to acquire the traditional culture.
In conclusion, we should realize the importation of language protection, and try our best to avoid the language to die out.