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Originally Posted by ballfresno
You'll find that the vast majority of scientific publications are written in English so, yes, you'll benefit from this in the US.
eric
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That's good to know, being an English-speaker.
A lot of the works that I read and refer to, in my special field of interest (a "soft" science), are in German or French. I sometimes can muddle through (although I wouldn't want to have to do it very much!) French. I am hopeless when it comes to German--I just have to forgo reading works written in that language.
But that appears to have changed a lot in, say, the last 75 years over the world. English, now, is firmly ensconced as the unofficial second language of an enormous percentage of
the world at large (I say that because the governments of some countries actively discourage it), and possibly is now the default language of the literature,
in the world at large, that I need to read. Where French was the
lingua franca of the world at one time; English--despite its plethora of irregular verbs, inconsistent spellings, etc.--is now the language that holds that title.