Why Speaking and Writing English Brilliantly Is the Superpower that We Must All Strive for as Opposed to being Multilingual.

In a world where we want to be seen, heard, recognized and rewarded for our talents, the mastery of spoken and written English is the only superpower, that we must all strive for…..

I must confess to a certain kind of fatigue on this platform; articles that write about learning languages, the intrinsic benefits of speaking other languages how best to learn French, Spanish Mandarin etc. everyone, it seems, has an opinion on the very best technique for picking up languages but I strongly believe that we have all lost sight of what’s most important and financially expedient to us in today’s integrated and interdependent world; The mastery of written and spoken English.

I am a bit of a hypocrite here- although I was born in London in the very late 70s and brought up for the better part there, I speak Yoruba ( spoken by over 40–50 million people in Togo, Benin, Ghana, Brazil and Nigeria) Pidgin English and French ( largely self taught and highly proficient). Life’s experiences have taught me that in a world governed by expression and selling, high verbal and written dexterity in English counts for everything.

Going back to August 2004 at the Democrat convention that was held to nominate John Kerry as the party’s nominee for president, The only talking point that emerged from the convention wasn’t Kerry’s soporific speech or his formal nomination- what people remember from the occasion -and rightly so-was the phenomenally electrifying speech given by Barack Obama, The quote which I will do my level best to paraphrase below:

Suffice it to say that those magical words propelled this little known candidate for senate overnight to a global news sensation! The book that he had written…

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