How are 'native speaker', 'first language' and 'second language' defined?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-speaking_population
Facts and figures about English:
http://the_english_dept.tripod.com/esc.htmlWhich numbers were the most impressive?
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Is it related to diarrhea?
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid not quite. Though sometimes it might be?
ReplyDeleteEnglish-Speaking countries
ReplyDeleteEnglish is very spreaded language. English is spoken as a native language by around 375 million people and as a second langugae by around 600 million people. It is official language in 53 countries, for example United States, United Kingdom, Canda, Australia and so on.
English is part of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European family of languages. By year 1000, the English language consisted of approximately 40 000 words. Nowadays, the number has grown to more than 500 000. A great number of words found in the English vocabulary was borrowed from Latin, French, Low German, and the Scandinavian languages.
English is an easy language. There are no accents, the tenses of verbs are simplified and the adjectives are invariable. You need English to travel around the world – it is a language almost everybody understands - so it is easier to communicate with people from different cultures. Because of the wide use of English as a second language, English speakers have many different accents, which often signal the speaker's native dialect or language.
Over two-thirds of the world's scientists read in English. Three quarters of the world's mail is written in English. English is the main language of books, newspapers, sport, technology, advertising, international business and so on. You must speak English if you want a good job especially if you want to work with computers.
I think that English is very beautiful language and it is quite easy to learn.