Governments should spend more money on education than on recreation and sports. Do you agree or disagree?

Every year several languages die out. Some people think that it is not 
important because life will be easier if there are fewer languages in the 
world. 
To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion? 
It is argued that the annual extinction of many languages is not a problem 
because having just a few languages leads to a more convenient life. It is 
disagreed that the convenience of using just a few key languages makes the 
dying out of less spoken dialects acceptable. This essay will first discuss the 
importance of language to culture and secondly the fact that learning a few 
common languages is unrealistic, followed by a reasoned conclusion. 
A language is not just a group of spoken words but the key to someone’s 
culture. Language has evolved over thousands of years to reflect what it 
means to be from a particular place. For example, the Irish language has one 
of the widest vocabularies in the world and reflects their tradition of 
storytelling. Despite this, English has become the first language of the Irish, as 
many feel it makes it easier to communicate with the world. 
By speaking just a couple of languages, such as English and Chinese, you 
alienate billions of people throughout the world. English may be common, but 
it is not the ‘lingua franca’ many people think it is and it would take 
generations for everyone to learn it. Countries like Korea and Vietnam have 
been trying to adopt English as a second language for a long time, but most 
of their people still can’t fully grasp it. However, English has been the language 
of business for a long time and it should be encouraged to help a country 
become more economically competitive. 
To conclude, commonly spoken languages may make life more 
straightforward, but this should not be at the expense of less prevalent 
languages, in order to avoid the erosion of culture and the alienation of many 
countries.