poser & pervert ♫⃠

“ethel cain returned to tumblr”

"si no tenes tiempo para estudiar podes leer en el colectivo cuando viajas"

You could have just… not learned our language. It’s not like Americans are desperate to talk to you

And the reason higher education requires a B1-B2 level of English (a level that shows a knowledge of language that native speakers sometimes don't have in their native language, btw) is that science and academia happens in English. You will have to read papers in English. And if you study a master's or go into research, you may have to write papers in English.

And this is not because English speakers do science better. The most prominent scientific journals and magazines are written in English, because the most prominent scientific institutions are in English-speaking countries and enjoy huge financial backing that other countries don't have. The wealth of knowledge, just to give some examples, of astronautic engineering in Russian or virtually the entire field of the humanities in Spanish and Portuguese is thus ignored because it's "untranslated". Meanwhile, to get your research published here in the Third World, you have to learn English, and to keep up with the global conversation you have to learn English. I have heard of papers of wonderful quality that have not been paid attention at all because they weren't published in English, and years of accumulated research in other languages that only reached transcendence until some anglo speaker grabbed it all and made a review in English.