A key to success

As President of AIESEC in Slovenia (AIESEC is the world's largest youth-run organisation represented in over 125 countries), I have seen the importance of English as a global and mutual language. Living in today's world, international connections are more important than ever and the ability to speak one of the global languages is a key to success.

I have noticed that the proposal from the Ministry of Education to make English the educational language in Slovenia has opened a debate about the concern that this measure will threaten the Slovene language. From my personal experience I can say that being able to communicate in one of the global languages makes life so much easier and provides you with many more opportunities, while at the same time your native language remains to be the core or your identity. While writing this text I definitely have to translate words from...