two answers for the previous post including my opinion and how I trust these resources

two answers for questions that I listed previous post.

Biography

English as the Global Language:Good for Business, Bad for Literature. (n.d.). Retrieved June 22, 2016, from http://www.cursoer.com/en/english-as-the-global-languagegood-for-business-bad-for-literature/

MIT Indigenous Language Initiative. (n.d.). Retrieved June 20, 2016, from http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/mitili/language loss.html

C. (2015). Tanzania dumps English as its official language in schools, opts for Kiswahili. Retrieved June 22, 2016, from http://qz.com/355444/tanzania-dumps-english-as-its-official-language-in-schools-opts-for-kiswahili/

Swahilli Language (n.d.). Retrieved June 20, 2016, from http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/society/swahili-language.html

Will making English as an official language mean that loss of culture in japan or in other countries???

 

In this article, the another is insisting that, if the English dominate the world, it would mean lots of literature in every country except those countries where English is their official language from the start. Because, if the English language dominates world publishing, very few translations except those from English to other languages will be commercially viable.

 So, let's see why making English as a standard degrades literature. There are two big reasons for this. 

 Firstly, according to Melitz, "the tendency of competitive forces in the global publishing market to privilege the translation of English fiction and poetry into other languages for reading or listening enjoyment may damage the production of world literature and in this respect make us all worse off. " 

 Secondly, even if translators translate novels in other language to English, it cannot translate the implied meaning and exact meaning in the novels.

For the reasons listed before, in terms of literature and other kind of cultural things, it would degrade the country's culture.

opinion

I agree with this opinion in some parts. I think that dominance of English as world official language might degrades the literatures in non-English speaking country.  I think it would happen, since every people want to gain money by selling it. Countries such as US and UK will promote to translate their literature to other countries and it will lead to the disappearing of new prominent literature in non-English speaking country.

commments

I think this article is a little bit biotic, since it only mentions the aspect of literature. I think opinion like this topic, making English as official language, needs to mention opinion from various angle. Therefore, I think this resource have room for improving.

However, the opinion as itself, there is no doubt for his opinion. statements and reasons are clearly explained.

 

Will making English as an official language derive people’s identity???

summary

Tanzania decided to make their official language, Swahili, instead of English which is used and taught among lots of Tanzanian since the colonialization from British.

In the past, due to the tons of ethnics, it has experienced critical condition, split of the country, but thanks to the unifying Swahili as their language, or promoted citizens to be felt one unity.

However, some people are claiming it is horrible scheme, making Swahili as their official language, since it goes back the world trend which is making English as their official language to success in economy. Many Africans countries are doing that since it has many advantage.

All in all, nobody knows that whether it will be effective or not.

 

 

Opinion

 

 

I agree with this opinion. However, I think it would only apply in the countries where they experienced split among their country or colonized. In other word, in the places where they lost their identity as a country citizen. Therefore, I think doing the same thing in japan won't apply it. I think it would be meaningless since Japan never experienced split within their country. There are no concerns for Japan like Tanzania.

comments on this resource

I really trust this resource. The reason why I trust this source is because it is official and famous website.

In addition, it is explaining the opinion using historical facts, so it gives us logical explanation. History tells us how to cope with things in a proper way.

In addition to this, I thought it is very trustful since the opinion is based on not hypothesis but facts.