英語検定ライティング準１級（第232回）

入試問題「九州大学2019年前期」

現在の地球の総人口は80億くらいだ。英語を母国語とする人口は４億人程度である。何とか通じる人口を合わせても10億くらいと言われる。圧倒的多数は英語と無関係に暮らすのだ。
There are around eight billion people on the globe in recent years, but the number of people whose native language is English has been about four million, at the same time, the number of people who manage to use English is said to be six million, after all, the total number might be around one billion.
An overwhelmingly large number of people all over the world lead a normal life without English language.

インターネットを地球上の人間をつなぐ通信インフラにするには多言語情報処理環境が必要不可欠だ。だがネット上で各国の国語を通用させればそれが実現するというわけでもないのだ。
When we wish that the Internet would become the communication infrastructure where people on this planet could contact with one another through it, we must absolutely gain the multiple language information disposable environment without fail, which is vital.
But we couldn’t realize such an environment because each nation’s mother tongues and native languages are understandable by those involved.

もちろんネット上で母国語を扱えるというのは極めて大事なことである。しかしそれだけでは意味がない。この地球上で多様な言語を使う多様な人たちと共存するという点が肝心なのだ。
What is extremely significant is that almost all users perform well with their own native languages on the Internet, which is something natural, but this doesn’t make sense without any additional conditions.
When diverse people with diverse languages could share this earth environment with each other, the ideal society would come true for the first time without fail.

まずは工業先進国が教育を輸出することから始めなくてはいけない。単に経済支援をしているかのように見せかけて結局は大企業が裏金を持って帰るようなシステムを変えることである。
What seems the most indispensable is that an industrial developed nation must export something educational toward a developing counterpart because ODA hasn’t made positive contributions to numerous poor nations.
The north hemisphere has pretended to make a difference in the economic viewpoint toward the south counterpart, however, major corporations in the former would end up being profitable after all.
It might be almost impossible for us to change this.