I think many people who lives in country where language is not English would be able to speak English as a second language. It is because the importance of English is getting higher and higher. Compared with 40 years ago,students forced to learn English more now and children also have to study English at school. So I think government would force us to learn English more strict in the next 290 years and speaking English would be normal thing for people. So I think English would continue to be a global language. Though Mandarin is spoken by many people,but what made English global language was not the number of its speaker. I think the most important think to be global language is its power such as economics so English would continue to be global language.
I agree that whether English is a global language or not depends on not the number of speaker but an economical power.
ReplyDeleteAlthough English is a second language in the world now, it is likely to happen that another language will be more important in the next 200 years, such as Chinese, Spanish and so on.
ReplyDeleteI also think economic power is more important than the number of speakers.
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