To tell you the truth, English is a crazy language. At least if i were from another country and coming to the United States. Trying to learn the difference between the words bear and bare, which is pronounced the same, but have different meanings could be confusing to understand. Or how about this one, knight and night. Still two completely different words that are pronounced the same, but have two different definitions. Lederer said that, "Language is like the air we breathe. It's invisible, inescapable, indispensable, and we take it for granted." When i hear that, i can't help but to agree with him. The language we use is how we communicate to each other whether it's verbally, physically, or with the use of sign language.
The use of the English language can be frustrating with words that having nothing to do with or being the complete opposite of the word. Like, grapefruit which doesn't contain grapes, or hot dogs can be cold and do not contain any parts of a dog. It's actually funny to me that we have so many strange ways of describing things.
Some people say that English is be taught all around the world as a second language. Which is good because it's good to be diverse. But why don't our schools teach more languages in a country where we have so much diversity? I mean sure Spanish and french are being taught, but how about Chinese, Vietnamese, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, German, Polynesian, Swedish, Persian, Indonesian, Hebrew or even Arabic. Aren't these languages have just as much importance as English?
So in conclusion, we should be aware of other languages and learn them. I'm sure that many of them have their own phrases. For example in Africa, what we call football and what they call it is two totally different sports. So if you have the opportunity to learn outside the English language, take advantage of it and run with it. Have fun!