Here we speak English too!
Around the world there are different cultures and proper languages shared among them, and we get surprised when we find out that there are unknown countries that share the same languages as the most recognized ones: In Angola and Saint Thomas and Prince they speak Portuguese.
In Cameroon they speak French, and also our own language, which is result of the Spanish conquering in almost all Latin-American and Equatorial Guinea, the only Spanish speaking African country. In the following text, we´re going to see some other countries we didn’t know they have English as official language, or at least, as an optional one:
FILIPINES
For what a paleontologist Argentina and China are a goldmine of fossils, Filipines is for what language lovers is the paradise. Filipines is unique because they speak not one, or two, nor four but more than one hundred. Yes, one hundred languages coming from almost all Asian region, as well as the proper dialects; eight in total plus other optional languages like Arabic and Spanish and, of course, the mother tongue Tagalog and English in this case.
All Filipine people can speak Tagalog by default and English is mostly taught in schools and used frequently in politics, business, communication media, and more.
BARBADOS
Apart from being the motherland of the pop singer Rihanna, we don´t think of this place as something relevant to talk about, but the thing is that it is if we talk about languages! In this case, English is the official language of Barbados and is used grammatically and phonetically similar to British English, but is not that understandable as American or British. It is normally used in communication media, the government and public services. However, it goes along with another official language called Bajan, which can be unintelligible for other foreign Anglo speakers since its understanding depends in how many slangs and phrases have been adapted by the native ones, based on Caribbean English and other from the Caribbean region.
GUYANA
The another Venezuela´s neighbor is the only country in continental Latin America where, of course, English is the only official language used by the majority of its population, at least in 85% since Guyanese Criollo is the second one and among the native population from the jungle and old villages speak different Caribbean languages such as Akawaio, Arahuaco and Patomona. Also, in smaller scale, Spanish and Portuguese because of its surroundings with Venezuela and Brazil.
BOTSWANA
If we think about the south of Africa, more than savannas fulfilled of animals, we have the wrong idea of the countries around: people living puberty and starvation, civil wars and terrorism. But that isn´t the case of Botswana. In fact, Botswana is one of the few African countries with a very good economy and considerable human development considering its region since its independence in the 60´s. Education has increased a lot in the upcoming years. Among the Batswana, proper name of its citizens, English is the language used for all educational and public business. Afrikaans is also spoken but by the white minority of the country coming from the vanished British colonies.
SUDAN
More specifically South Sudan. South Sudan is the youngest country in the world, separated from the north in 2011 and, since then, things hasn´t gone well at all. The case is that this division is because of the constant ethnic and religious conflicts that take place there, being North Sudan Muslim and South Sudan being Christian. As expected, Sudan was a British Colony, so that it spread all over the country and is spoken along the original native dialects. English in Sudan is taught in all education level.
MALTA
Yes, its name is the same as the famous Colombian drink but is not related to it. Malta is an islander country which for a long time had Italian as the main language spoken along with the native Maltese language, but the number of people who used to speak Italian were decreasing as well as another minority that speaks French. But in recent years, Italian was making a comeback due to the Italian broadcasting TV shows. And what´s going on with English? Fortunately, is the most spoken language in the country, where citizens can speak it very well with a strong British intonation, since it is result of being a British colony in the past. It´s used constantly in schools by all students and is up to them if they want to keep speaking or Maltese or Italian.
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