English Globally Spoken Language Analysis

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English as a globally spoken language.

1.Introduction
Status of the English language today.
The English language has received many influences since it started to exist from the 5th century. The influence of English today is catholic. In our days it’s a privilege to know English because with this language our world can communicate. This language is very useful for the businesses, the science and the entertainment. For the last four centuries the world English powers such as, The Great Britain, France, Austria, Russia and Italy, are mainly - speaking. Linguists distinguish three historical periods of the English language. One of them is the old English after that the middle English and then the modern English. Today …show more content…

This was an excuse first for the Great Britain and then for the USA for their main target which was the English language as the dominant language of the planet. The visionary for this idea was called Rex Leeper who was an Australian and he had a particular asset which it was that he spoke five foreign languages. In 1916 he was recruited to the Ministry of Information at the propaganda’s services. He was the first one who noticed that the Great Britain was in danger. At the end of the war, English was the language of winners and hundreds of thousands young students had start to learn it. His vision was now utopia, but a new enemy for the rule of English had appeared on the horizon: the Russian. That wasn’t problem at all in the end because the Soviet Union attempted to replenish the power gap that Great Britain and other countries left behind because they abandoned their colonies. Both British and American governments have funded the establishment of universities and language centers. Throughout the developing world and by the mid-1960s, 350 million people around the world and the one tenth of the population of the earth, spoke

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