Correct me if I'm wrong...is English an international language?

Question

You can almost see or hear anywhere English is widely spoken or likely to be thaught.......but yet Chinese or the Middle east lived longer than they. Is it because they are more inlfuencial....or more popular or well traveled?

Answer 1

Don't forget though that most of the known world had British Colonies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language

a lot of info here!

Answer 2

English is the language of the internet, international business, etc. etc. Reasons? Well, of course there's Microsoft, Hollywood, and as others have mentioned, the old British empire. On the other hand, Chinese is the language spoken by the most people, and Spanish is the language with the fastest growing populations. So, who knows what can happen in the future???

Answer 3

ENGLISH- The language of progress, prosperity, education and technology.
The English language is the official language of the United States, Canada, England, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Belize, Malta, the Phillipines, South Africa, Ghana, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Tanzania, Jamaica, the Bahamas, and several of the grenadine islands in the Caribbean, as well as one of the official languages of Israel, India, Malaysia and Tonga. Other nations such as Sweden, Norway and Denmark have made English a compulsory subject for all school children. And nations of Asia and Africa are learning that their languages are unfit for use in a high-tech world, where picture writing, and other alphabets not romanized are required.

The English language provides the exactitude of meaning with a 700,000 word vocabulary, supremely suited for the high technology world of the 21st century. There are many English words that cannot even be translated in other languages because of the inadequately developed vocabulary of those languages. For instance, the chauvinistic Japanese, thought, that when hi tech came to be, that they could simply absorb English words into Japanese with only slight changes in pronounciation (there is no L sound in Japanese so they substitute another sound for L when they absorb English words into the Japanese language), and after adding over 1000 English words, they found they could not successfully make Japanese a high tech language. The result: everywhere in Japan, people are trying to learn English – the demand for English teachers is far above the availability and the Japanese refuse to study English with a Japanese teacher.

The same problem confronts all the other languages of Asia and Africa where the languages spoken have no vocabulary to fit into the 21st century.

97% of all the technology books being written and published now are in English. All the people who are into modern technology and science who are bilingual have no time to spend translating works into their native languages as their careers encompass their time. It’s all but over for the other world languages. Knowing fluent English today and for the future, means success, employment, financial security and prosperity. Not knowing English means poverty, ignorance and unemployment.

Answer 4

That honor belonged to France. Yet in the last 40 years, English now holds the honor of being the international language.

Answer 5

In my opinion, the worldwide spread of English language is on the one hand due to the ease of its grammar forms (i.e. there is no need to learn several endings of verbs according to the person, a different personal pronoun is enough to change person, I like, you like...) and on the other hand due to the wide spread of commercial transactions. Moreover, both the expansive policy of the British Government and the early creation of colonies have contributed determinately to the expansion of the use of English language.

Answer 6

I hope it helps.--Yes, English is an international language, thanks to to Mr. Bill Gates and his associates, thanks to Internet.