i mean, english languange, is it taking over the worlD?
2007-03-04 00:08:34 · 9 answers · asked by maya 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Yes, it is especially in the academic world, a lot of good and great universities, colleges, schools worldwide require high standards of English proficiency. If you're a professor, you can write academic texts, get them published, teach/reserch any country in the world. However, Chinese is now taking the business world since this country has more than 1.3 billion people, around one third of the overall world population.
2007-03-04 00:30:45 · answer #1 · answered by Arigato ne 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought too about English language was taking over the world.
But to come to it, Mandarin Chinese is popular and very well know due to large population.
Then English is in 2nd place. And again it's popular due to communities and many other stuff.
3. Spanish
4. Hindi/Urdu
5. Bengali
6. Arabic
7. Russian
8. Portuguese
9. Japanese
10. German
11. Javanese
12. French
2007-03-04 10:16:53 · answer #2 · answered by njnowell 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I say no. Spanish is becoming a majority in the whole of the New World. One-third of the world reads the Chinese alphabet (or can determine the general meaning). So, no, English was better documented in print in our time but that will be changing.
2007-03-04 08:13:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
English is the lingua franca, but scientists believe that will change in a few thousand years to Chinese or another Eastern language.
2007-03-04 08:12:36 · answer #4 · answered by comicfreak33 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not really but in the business world, people like to communicate in english, may be because this the biggest potential country, and people want to do business (so they have to use a lot, in order to understand each other).
2007-03-04 08:13:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
mandarin is the most commonly spoken language in the world even though english seems like the one which is dominating
2007-03-04 08:18:20 · answer #6 · answered by Frost 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, Russian and Chinese are more popular spoken languages.
2007-03-04 08:16:11 · answer #7 · answered by Mighty C 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Slowly and without people noticing very much.
2007-03-04 08:18:33 · answer #8 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it already did, its not my native language but i know how to speak it...OMG here it goes again, i speak english...
2007-03-04 08:12:13 · answer #9 · answered by xapao 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋