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Aviation English: Language pilots must speak, regardless of nationality

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   I had started learning about aviation knowledge by myself since in the elementary school. One thing I paid much attention on was aviation language, or in other words, aviation English. Basically, the language of flight or Aviation English is a combination of professional jargon and simple English . I still can remember those old days when I know a bunch of professional aviation jargon in English while have trouble on some simple words in the English text book. Since English is the only globally-recognized lingua franca, international aviation language is just another version of English, as simple and as complex as it sounds for pilots all around the world. For those pilots who have trouble talking with others in aviation version of English, well, good luck to them and their passengers.   Since I had watched a video on YouTube that tells how poor Chinese pilot’s English is by showing a voice record between Kennedy Airport’s controller and an

Different tongues of English

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Recently, I’ve watched a funny YouTube video, which is a comedy made my Malaysian in English. But for me, the funniest part was not the video, but the “English” they spoke.  When the first time I was watching this video, I didn’t even understand his very first sentence, I asked myself a few seconds afterwards : “ Did he just spoke English?” Clearly, he did, but it takes time for me to understand his Malaysian style English.     We’ve already talked about the language localizations and varies tongues of English speakers all over the world in class, but the unique fluent, pronunciation and combination still amazed me anyway. I didn’t except English can be this varies in such a small pice of the world—Asia. I’ve been to Japan when I was still in elementary school, but my English skill was just as suck as you can imagine, so I didn’t have any useful practical experiences there.    When a language, especially the world lingua franca—English, comes to this varies around the world, the