Majority of the world speaks a single language or two at most. Shit half the people I see online can’t even speak one.
It makes sense you when you look at it like that. most people in ESL programs only speak a single language, if you speak more than two you probably don’t need ESL classes and can learn on your own.
Sometimes, I think it’s funny that in Anglo countries it’s referred to as ESL, English as a second language.
For us (and I guess many others) it was always English as a foreign language. Could be first foreign language, second foreign language…
Its ESL in English Speaking countries, and EFL in non- English speaking countries
Majority of the world speaks a single language or two at most. Shit half the people I see online can’t even speak one.
It makes sense you when you look at it like that. most people in ESL programs only speak a single language, if you speak more than two you probably don’t need ESL classes and can learn on your own.
If you’re learning in an English speaking country, they’re not going to call English a foreign language.
Because English as an Nth language doesn’t quite have the same ring.
Viewing it as primary/secondary makes more sense of it.
It’s not a foreign language in English speaking countries…