English as a Global Language

English as a global language

English is spoken by more than 300 million people as a first language. It is a big language and millions of people have english as a second language. This is what we can call Global English. It is the English that is used in commercial television and in films and series.

The global English has been spread all over the world. If you are a tourist you can travel to anywhere you want and still be able to communicate with other people, and just using English.

The Internet and the television have been the main reasons for the global spread. To have one language that everyone understands makes the communicate much easier.

After its evolution nearly a thousand years ago, English was spread throughout the world by colonies and warriors in the English Empire and other countries. English has almost reached the whole world quickly, because of the British colony.

English is the language spoken by the majority. By the end of the twentieth century, several states have banned the teaching of foreign languages in private schools and at home.

The English will spread more and it isn’t a bad thing. It will make the world more like one country. The communication will get better and countries will probably not quarrel over so many trifles anymore. It will get much easier and faster to say what you want and it wouldn’t be so many misunderstandings. With the knowledge of Global English you can speak and understand a person from Australia, New Zealand or any other English speaking country. It is the language of media, medicine and business. But is the spread of this language a good thing

One disadvantage that is often mentioned is that many languages have died because of the spread of English. Many still have lost a large number of speakers and are bound to be sentenced in the near future. The native people don’t like English because they were forced to learn English by the British. If they want to or not they had no choice. And because they had a war between each other, and many of the native people have been killed. So that way they didn’t like English or the English people and special the old people. These are the disadvantages.

English is very beautiful language and easy to learn. It’s very important because we use it every day in our life, we use it in our cell phone maybe, in our job or in the social media. And that will be much easier to contact with other people from different places in the world. Instead of learning many languages which is very difficult or have someone who helps me, I can take care of my business self.

I have learned a lot about English history in this theme, how did English spread in the world and how it become a global language and what are pros and cons with have English as a global language. It has changes how I look at English, before I thought that English is just British and American English, but now I know that every part of the world have different English not much but it’s varies from country to country.