La Alabarda (the halberd symbol of Trieste, Italy) has featured as a sticker on every car I have owned. I expect the symbol, a white lance on a striking red background, would be unfamiliar to most motorists who view it on my back windshield.

With the rise of social media, we can now see how people use English in different contexts. Along with this visibility comes a wave of grammarians in Indonesia, giving judgmental critiques on others’ use of English.

Our world has become very interconnected. There are more speakers of English as an additional language than speakers considered to use

In Iran, we commonly use the term zaban [literally translated as language/tongue] to refer exclusively to the English language. When someone

Born and raised in Vietnam, I learned and later taught English as a foreign language. My monolingual background significantly shaped my...