English Won T Dominate As World Language

English Won T Dominate As World Language

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English won't dominate a world language
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better start learning Chinese guys... http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4387421/
Firefly?
I'd always recommend learning a secord or third language.
As far as I see it, English is the major language in: the UK, America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Other countries who speak English as a second language include the Scandanavians, Holland and others. None of them involve Chinese, and if I were to learn an new learn -- It'd probably be Dutch.
The article takes a popular stance, though: "Its happening in America, that means the world, too".
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A multi-lingual population is already the case in much of the world and is becoming more common in the United States. Indeed, the Census Bureau reported last year that nearly one American in five speaks a language other than English at home, with Spanish leading, and Chinese growing fast.
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Spanish not being used in England (I've NEVER seen a Spaniard moved over here) and Chinese people often here just for university and such.
The next world language will be... Esperanto!!!
I have more hasty, ill thought out, sweeping statements too. Just like this fool. What dialect of Chinese? There`s like 10 or more of them...
Wo hui shuo zhong wen!!
Mi espaniol es no bueno.
Chinese won't dominate the world it'll just dominate China
china isn't the world because there's billions living there in population count
Yeh, isn't China the country where they put a law down to limit families to only 1 kid, anymore and you pay?
thnom you've never seen a spaniard move to the UK? My word, do you leave the house?
i live in Texas and we were just declared the 4th state to have a minority majority, better get on the spanish bus if you live here.
meh doesn't bother me much. I plan on learning japanese. I'd like to learn german, french, italian and such. at least the basics so when I go on my ever s long planned trip to tour europe I can communicate decently.
I'd like to learn Spanish since I spend time in Mexico every year.
These statistics don't take into account that only approximatly 200 million chinese live in the industrialized south east, the rest is pretty much completely unimportant.
It just doesn't matter if there are 1 billion farmers (and as sad as it is also what you could call modern 'work-slaves') somewhere in central China, because you will never get into any buisness (or other kind of) relation with them anyways.
Still those 200 million are a strong reason to learn Chinese
(the same is btw even more true for those indish languages)
I will learn Spanish. Maybe even German. But I WILL NOT learn Chinese!
...er, Cantonese. Whatever.
We speak 3 languages at home...My wife and I speak English, I speak Dutch to our kids and my wife speaks French to them. It can get a bit messy at the dinner table since we don't have a family language. So far the kids aren't confused and pick it up very fast.
I must learn French though because my kids are starting to speak it better than I do
As long as there are numbers on the menu's I won't learn Chinese
i speak 5 languages and had to do the localizations for Pariah* in 3 of those, think i'm good for whatever comes.
*Pariah wasn't done by us, just helped wrap it up at the end, and do all the translations
i refuse to learn a language which doesn't use an alphabet like english. so, there goes anything other than spanish, portugese, italian and french and german. and i'm terrible at the last 2.
english is already the dominant world language. it's spoken as first language in the UK, Ireland, Canada, USA, Australia, NZ, and large parts of the caribbean as well as a second language in about 1/3 of africa, the indian sub-continent and elsewhere. it's already become the dominant language of the net and is the language of air travel.
english is also singapore's dominant language. Though it is hard to pick up singlish if you aren't already used to the far east accents.
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I found the article slightly hard to believe in that english will stop being the world's dominant language. None of the facts they showed really pointed toward that. If anything it just seems as though many people are becoming bilingual by learning English in addition to their native language. Wouldnt that contribute to English dominance? Its true that as China develops and greater numbers of Chinese spread across the world, their language could become a standard in many areas, but as of now the trend is still for Chinese to learn foreign languages rather than for us to learn Chinese. my rant stopped making sense a while ago so i'll stop here...
Id just learn another language to pick up hot Asain chicks
Majority of counteries across the world learn English as a second language. It's really more dominant because the English-Speaking world makes up the bulk of the worlds economy.
As such nations have to learn English to be able to compete in the world. Why? Because the English-Speaking nations are crap at (or rather most are unwilling) learning other languages.
I personally speak a nice wide selection, but I can only read/write a few. (even then it's not exactly that well)
Think is though even when I'm abroad most of the time when someone picks up I speak English they will also speak it. So you don't generally need to speak the native language unless you come across someone who doesn't understand English.
At the end of the day, I've had very little in the way of language barriers when visiting my cousin in Japan, or friends in Russia, etc. Most of the time I'm able to just speak English without worrying about my poor variations of thier native language.
As most of the world actually panders to our lazy nature, it's likely that English is going to continue to be the language of choice for some time.
I've also noticed that quite a number of other nations will learn English rather than another native language.
So it's used quite a bit as an intermediate language.
God knows why. It's a horribly inaccurate language, far too open to mis-understanding.
that's kinda the nature of language in general--approximation. english is a real mutt, to be sure, but every language has its strengths and weaknesses, nice bits and ugly bits. if there is any huge dominant shift in language, it's not like it's going to happen overnight. we'll have time to listen to the "how-to-learn" audio tapes
Had a long post in mind but I'll save all of us a bit of time.
No it wont.
i can swear in mandarin does that count
i can also swear in russian, spanish, german, a little in hebrew.
thats all that really matters
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we'll have time to listen to the "how-to-learn" audio tapes
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We get to a word we don't know we would still talk very slowly and loudly in English. (heh like that EVER helps)
I wouldn't go anywhere I could ask where the bathroom is, which is everywhere as the pee-dance is universal.
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Id just learn another language to pick up hot Asain chicks
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I'd learn chinese or ANY language just for that!
You could just learn english as there are plenty of asian gals here.
i can say "does it bite?" in klingon

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English is spoken as a second or foreign language by an estimated 950 million people worldwide (Saville-Troike, 2006). This is in addition to the 427 million native speakers of English. But how did the English language reach the stage where it is used and understood, to a greater or lesser extent, by more than 1 in 7 of the world’s population?
The first stage of the global spread of the English language was the result of the empire building of Britain, otherwise known as imperialism. The second stage was the result of the cultural, political and economic preeminence of the USA, otherwise known as neo-imperialism.
At its height in 1922, the British Empire was the largest in history, covering a quarter of the Earth’s land area, with a population of over 450 million people.
The British Empire, circa 1922 (image courtesy of WikiMedia)
The primary aim of education in the colonies became the acquisition of the English language, and the future academic and financial success of those living in colonized countries came to depend mainly on their English language ability (Phillipson, 1992).
After World War II, when the colonized countries started to gain independence, the English language maintained its influence by being selected as an official or national language by “leaders who were themselves the products of colonial education” (Phillipson, 1992, p.182).
These factors contributed to English becoming either the sole dominant language, or an official language, in over 75 territories with a combined population of over 2.2 billion people (Crystal, 1997).
On July 4th, 1776, thirteen British colonies located along the Atlantic seaboard declared independence and founded the United States of America. The U.S. economy has since become the largest in the world, and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the world’s sole superpower .
The global reach of America’s cultural, political and economic influence has contributed significantly to bolstering the dominant position of the English language in the 20th and 21st centuries.
America has spawned a significant number of global musical influences, including Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, Eminem, Madonna, and Bob Dylan. On a global stage, the economic and cultural dominance of Hollywood is unrivaled.
In the information age of the 21st century, a reported 45% of web-pages are written in English , a situation not hindered by the fact that 8 of the top 10 most visited websites in the world (as of Sept. 2012) are based in America.
In the 21st century, China is positioning itself to challenge America for the position of the number one economic power in the world, but whether this will translate to linguistic dominance remains to be seen.
Neither political, economic, cultural, technological nor military might alone can give one language international prominence. It takes a sustained combination of all these powers to achieve that. As a case in point, Japanese did not become a dominant language internationally (although it did increase in popularity), despite Japan’s incredible economic success from the 1960s to 1990s.
Having said this, linguistic world orders do change. English was preceded by Latin as the world’s dominant language, which was put in place by the Roman Empire and perpetuated by education and religion. But the days of Latin were cut short by the rise of the British and American empires described above.
It is theoretically possible that English itself will, at some future time, be succeeded by another language, promulgated by the economic, political and cultural might of its native speakers.
The English language is now argued to belong to everyone who speaks it. Native speakers are said to have forfeited their right to exclusive ownership of English in a global context. Indeed, native speakers of English are outnumbered more than 2-to-1 by non-native speakers of the language. The fact that English now belongs to “everyone or to no-one” (Wardhaugh, 1987) would seem to imply that English will maintain its position as the global dominant language throughout the 21st Century and beyond.
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Paul has taught English as a foreign language in Japan since 2006, and obtained a masters degree in Teaching English as a Foreign and Second Language in 2012. He has a wide range of experience in a variety of different teaching contexts, including conversation schools, junior and senior high schools, blue-chip companies, and colleges and universities. He is particularly interested in integrating technology with English language pedagogy.
My point of view on English is mainly professional. We, in the French speaking business world are more and more confronted with the dominance of the English language. When I was stationed in Paris, we used English as a second language only for about 10% of our time. But when I moved to Brussels, also a French speaking town, the communication in English went up to 66%. That was quite an adaption for me. I am an engineer with specialised skills and my company wanted me to stay in Brussels. It offered me some private English lessons at the http://www.englishacademy.be and also an intensive full immersion English training. The results were OK, but I felt still disadvantaged when spreaking during meetings and writing in English. Only a real commitment to speak English whenever the opportunity presented itself – not common for a French native speaker – I managed to become really fluent. Judgement if this evolution is good or bad is besides the question. It is just a fact.
When an Air India airline pilot flying into Germany requests permission to land in Stuttgart, he does so in English, not Hindi or even German.
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