Medium of instruction versus mother tongue
Our life would have been different without a speaking language. Luckily, we use this tool, the language to exchange information, chat, learn, in sum to communicate: to take with, or to enable someone to get, and take with. Now that we use languages to communicate, this communication is only possible when those communicating use the same linguistic code: they speak the same language. In that regard, an African proverb states: "if you want people to understand you, speak their language". Something very important in that statement; "speak their language", this looks an order, an imperative, a command, a kind of urgency. it's not a question that calls a "yes" or a "no" answer. In Europe, in Asia, in America, almost allover the world we have institutions that take care of people learning from the childhood to the adulth ood. These institutions aim at preparing these "guys" to be good citizens, by enabling them to get relevant "thi...