Editing Assignment


The advance of English as a world language threatens the existence of less widely spoken European
languages, including Dutch.



During the globalization in the beggining of the  century 20, england

was one of the world leading country’s. England had many colonies and connections with other
country’s over sea, managed by their huge fleet. In all the trading areas english became the
leading language as it is  to-day.

            In the long time, a country like the Netherlands will be mostly urbanized as one big
city. This will take away the so-called  strongholds of the local languages and dialects the rural
villages. In big citie’s, like Amsterdam english is advancing rapidly as the number one language,
helped by the globalization of these citie’s. Urbanization threatens local cultures, such as the
dutch language.

With the increase in the use of the language of english on TV the dutch youth gets highly
influenced by it. “Dutch TV Youth Programmes” take over the english language to create an
atmosphere  in which the youth can communicate in a cool way. They take it over, and when
communicating  against their friends they  they refer to those programs to act in such a way to
impress their environment. More and more, the dutch youth is being heard using english words
instead of dutch one’s which have equivalent meanings.

            One important aspect that should be taken into account is the importance of culture.
Due to cultural interested people and people who hold their language up it will never vanish or
lose importance. Therefore dutch as not a very small language will rather gain importance than lose
it.

            The amount of people using the dutch language might decrease in future time, however
dutch as a language will never vanish due to language patriotism. Urbanization and globalisation as
well as the influence of the media will advance english to not a second language but a shared
first.