With over a billion people across the globe who either speak English or who are in the process of learning English, and one in four people who can, to some level, understand and/or communicate in English (according to the British Council), an important question seems to organically come up: Why should one learn English? Learning another language is not an easy process, it takes time, and it takes determination. So before embarking on the long and adventurous journey of learning English, it is imperative to ask ourselves why. I have asked myself this very question more than ten years ago