Engkent's Mother

Is learning the English language essential for living in the United States or Canada? The English language is well known for being the hardest language to learn if it is not your native language. It is also more difficult to learn a language if you are an older person. Ideally if a person is going to learn a second language it should be in their early years of life. Knowing this, I can understand why Engkent's mother, being a native Chinese woman, would not want to learn English as a second language. Engkent's mother moved to Canada when she was around fifty years old. It is a very difficult for a fifty year old to learn a new language. It is especially difficult with two languages that are so different. She lived in the Canada for twenty years and did not speak English and she survived. This lifestyle would be difficult and not one I would want to live but it is not essential for a person to have to speak English for them to live in a English speaking county.