Will English always be the 'global language' What do you think the next global language will be?

Answer 1

Martian

Answer 2

Arabic will be the next Global Language

Answer 3

Chinese is so difficult to be universal, English will remain because is very easy, no accent not need extreme punctuation like others.
After English maybe a language from another planet in 1,000 years.
is proven any person in the planet can learn English, but not Chinese, Spanish, French, German or Italian because the way of writting is almost impossible for people that never have written accents in life.

Answer 4

The wise man's money would be on Chinese, but I'd vote for the language of love any day ;)

Hmm... the Chinese may be 'learning English in droves', but when the power is more firmly on their side, people who want to do business with them are going to start thinking. It'd be also interesting to see if all the economic expansion is accompanied by a cultural boom- texts, film, music, that sort of thing... possibly that's a tangential point, but how do you judge 'lingua franca' status anyway? Majority language status? The width of spread? What? What?

Answer 5

Spanish

Answer 6

Counting the population of China and the rate of its economic growth,
I bet in 50-100 years' time, Chinese language will be very very influential
given the rate of Chinese people trying run away from the communist rule now trying to live in all other countries.

Even in Japan, among all the registered foreigners, 26% are Chinese, not including the illegal ones who hide in Japan...
I flew to Japan trying to practice Japanese but at the end I had more chance to speak Chinese (Mandarin/Putonghua)!!

Mainland Chinese people are flogging abroad to give birth to babies, too. Over 33% of the babies born in Hong Kong hospitals are those by people from mainland China... where local Hong Kong people are too pressurized to find time to have family.
(financially, time & energy) :;><;: (T_T)

Chinese people and their language are everywhere.
Be warned.
Scary. (x_x)


I have been learning English, Japanese, Chinese & French.
None of them is my mother tongue.

Answer 7

The Chinese are learning English in droves. They are not a stupid people. They know to open doors they need English. They will have no need to 'impose' Mandarin on the rest of the world.

Answer 8

I'm not sure that english is the global language...far more people speak mandaring than english.

Answer 9

It will have to be sign+body language...!!!

People can still read body language without even moving the lips..

-Raising your palm when you see someone is a language of saying hi.

-Waving your hands at one can indicate goodbye..

-Giving the thumbs up means good work, good progress, etc..

-Smile at someone will not only make his day but it also means nice to meet you when you accompany the smile with a slight nod..

-Shaking hands represents new friendship created, saying thanks, nice to meet you, see you again, etc..


So as you can see.. Through our body language we can still communicate with the rest of the world..

**exclude showing off the middle finger**i'm talking of positive body language**


Cheers.. (",)

Answer 10

Chinese is a plausible answer because China is so big, so its considered a popular language. Personally, I think Spanish because its a lot easier than Chinese.