In my personal opinion, i think english language has become the worlds language, what do you think?

Question

My husband told me last night, why don't we all speak english in the world?
I have been thinking about it and i believe that sooner or later the human kind will use english, it is so complicated to learn french, spanish, german, wow we got english, so easy to learn and practical.
well i think im kind of sleepy now, see you tomorrow my friends!

I am a mexican woman and here in México we teach english to our kids since kinder garden, in private schools.

Answer 1

Yes there is possibly more English speaking then any other language, yet I doubt it would be spoken all over the world, because nationalities want to keep tradition and want to speak in their own language and not a strange forgien one.

Answer 2

English has ascended as the lingua franca since 1945 when we got that little moustache-guy in the bunker.
Basically, the current superpower's language is going to reign over the others. Note how many of the former soviet republics have russian as a second to the national language (ukraine, kazakhstan, etc).
Note how some african and asian places speak english and french, because those were the two big imperial forces back in the day.
And a good reason we won't all speak english, aside from all the cultural hatred or what have you: english is a hard language to learn. I've taken a bit of spanish, and let me tell you, it's a lot easier to learn than english, since there's a lot fewer irregularities (spelling, verbs, pronunciation, etc).

Answer 3

if you are an English native speaker of course you'll say OK let's all speak English. Then go tell this to the billion and 3 hundred Chinese what they think of English?

It is true that in the world English is the most spoken language but Madarin has the native speaker. So why not choose Mandarin?

As a French I don't think French is difficult. Everybody has it's own definition of difficult.

So I don't think your husband's dream will only remain as it is now a dream / a utopie

Answer 4

As you saw from a previous post up there, English is spoken in the most countries.

It's a remnant of the British Empire, and is already the "international" language.

All Nato/UN documents are drafted in English, much to the annoyance of the French!

English is not the hardest language to learn, Icelandic is..

English is also the language of business, considering two of the top 5 world economies speak it as their first language says a lot.

People wont speak Mandarin because it's too difficult to learn and English is already well established.

English is taught as a second language in most European countries (much to the annoyance of the French)

It's established, and all countries across the world should be encourage to speak it as at least a second language.

Answer 5

There are several different approaches you can take on this question. On one side, English is the buisness language of the world, and many international buisness executives, home country aside, speak English. On the other side, English is one of the hardest languages to learn. If I recall correctly, Latin and English are the worst to learn. If the whole world were to speak one language, it probably would be English, because that is the way it is going. Right now, it would take something very major to change the buisness language. This is because the U.S. has the largest hand in the international buisness world. The reason I say that it would take something very major is because the economy of the U.S. is thanks to it's great amount of resources, including all but one climate in the world, permafrost. This makes it a great nation for just about all types of economic growth. In other words, if the world did speak only one language, it would be American English. The Chances of this happening, however, are aproximatly 13,678,526,201 in 3. However that is before accounting for hesitation due to preservation of tradition and culture.

Answer 6

One has to learn English so that the person can go freely any where in the world. It is the International language spoken almost everywhere in the world. It acts as an umbrella to safeguard one's interests. A decade ago to learn English, you had to attend costly English classes or purchase course material like tapes and books. Now you can learn English for free from the comfort of your home using the Internet. The BBC and the British Council offer a number of on line courses, which teach written and spoken English. You can also improve your English by watching television programs and reading English newspapers. For more information, visit http://tinyurl.com/qnzpt

Answer 7

English has become something of a universal language. A lot of people have learned it (even in violation of some countries' laws). This has happened because of the rise of the British Empire, which was "replaced" as a major power by the United States.

There used to be "official" languages of various disciplines. If you wanted to study in one of them, you generally learned the associated language.
Science was Latin, then German
Diplomacy was French
Music was Italian (at least in writing it).

Now, English has pretty much taken over all of them. German scientists fled Germany under Hitler, heading to the United States. Pretty soon, most scientific papers started appearing in English.
Popular culture (rock music, music videos, etc.) has made English the primary language of popular music.
Most diplomacy occurs in English anymore, much to the dislike of the French.
Add to that that most computer programming involves English, you can add that, too. Not to mention television and movie production in Hollywood (though most of these get translated to local languages).

Although Mandarin Chinese is language with most speakers, it is pretty much restricted to China. English has the second most speakers, but is much more widespread.

Answer 8

These are the top ten languages(spoken):
Mandarin Chinese (1.12 billion)
English (480 million)
Spanish (320 million)
Russian (285 million)
French (265 million)
Hindi/Urdu (250 million)
Arabic (221 million)
Portuguese (188 million)
Bengali (185 million)
Japanese (133 million)
German (109 million)

And here is how many countries they are spoken in:

English (115)
French (35)
Arabic (24)
Spanish (20)
Russian (16)
German (9)
Mandarin (5)
Portuguese (5)
Hindi/Urdu (2)
Bengali (1)
Japanese (1)

Answer 9

I really am disgusted by the thought that the whole world should speak english. Then we all lose our cultural identity and the wide range of varieties in thought and expression. Imagine all books were written in English... what a horrible thought. English is limited in some ways, for example you dont really have a difference between genders, or you dont have many cases and I think it would be a huge loss to the worlds cultural variety and i am convinced that progress of evolution would slow down if the cultural identity through language and all the costums that come with language gets lost.

Answer 10

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