Well, since school, every english teacher (and almost every adult from time to time) gives you that lecture about how essential is the english proficiency for any 21st Century worker. Yet, after having worked in more than five different places in every kind of jobs, I believe I’m prepared enough to strongly discredit such statement.
No doubt it was essential that time at my internship at UN’s OHCHR, but I hardly used it once or twice when some inconvenient tourists showed up at the bookstore in the middle of Chile-Spain match during the World Cup. Same thing while working as a waiter in a lousy bar in República, and so far, exactly never at my present job at an NGO.
Anyway, the fact that nobody needs to speak english to have a decent work in Chile doesn’t mean that I deem it to be useless. On the contrary, I consider it essential.
Consider, for example, how long my lvl 5 orc shaman would last on a PvP of World of Warcraft If I didn’t speak any english. Or how could I tell if that strongly-accented chinese kid wants to help me in Counter Strike or is just waiting for my head to pop up to split my pixel-brain on the pixel-ground. More than once knowing english has allowed me to survive in the digital wild, but also allowed me to enjoy the lyrics of my favourite music, and to avoid being confronted to the horrible spanish dubbed movies (I feel kind of pity when I see my parents bearing such mess).
Is the english proficiency a must-have for a professional? The way I see it, not exactly, but I have no doubt that english is a tool to make life less boring in our days.
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