Around the time of the Mother Language Day celebration in Belarus, the Belarusian-speaking Chinese citizen Xu Bailong told Belsat that our language opens people up to the world and, at the same time, gives them access to the very soul of their interlocutor. Neither international English nor the "great and mighty" Russian does this. "Living in a globalized world without knowing your native language is simply vile," our interlocutor asserts.