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The future of English.
Have you ever wondered how many people there are who speak English?
It's quite a number!
Geographically, English is the most widespread language on earth, and it is second only to Chinese in the number of people who speak it.
It is spoken in the British Isles, the USA, Australia, New Zealand and much of Canada and South Africa.
That"s about 400 million people.
English is also a second language of another 300 million people living in more than 60 countries.
If you add to this the enormous number of people who learn to understand and speak English (like yourself), you will realise that English is indeed a "world language".
In Shakespeare's time only a few million people spoke English.
All of them lived in what is now Great Britain.
Through the centuries, as a result of various historical events, English spread throughout the world.
Five hundred years ago they didn't speak English in North America : the American Indians had their own languages.
So did the Eskimos in Canada, the aborigines in Australia, and the Maoris in New Zealand.
The English arrived and set up their colonies .
Today, English is represented in every continent and in the three main oceans — the Atlantic, the Indian and the Pacific.
English is mixing with and marrying other languages around the world.
It is probably the most insatiable borrower.
Words newly coined or in vogue in one language are very often added to English as well.
There are words from 120 languages in its vocabulary, including Arabic, French, German, Greek, Italian, Russian, and Spanish.
Other languages absorb English words too, often giving them new forms and new meanings.
So many Japanese, French and Germans mix English words with their mother tongues that the resulting hybrids are called Japlish, Franglais and Denglish.
In Japanese, for example, there is a verb Makudonaru, to eat at McDonald's.
One of the many "Englishes" spoken and written today is Euro - English.
Euro - English has its origins in the political arena of the European community.
A century ago, some linguists predicted that one day England, America, Australia and Canada would be speaking different languages.
However, with the advent of records, cinema, radio, and television, the two brands of English have even begun to draw back together again.
Britons and Americans probably speak more alike today than they did 50 or 60 years ago.
(In the 1930s and 1940s, for example, American films were dubbed in England.
It's no longer the practice today).
People have long been interested in having one language that could be spoken throughout the world.
Such a language would help to increase cultural and economic ties and simplify communication between people.
Through the years, at least 600 universal languages have been proposed, including Esperanto.
About 10 million people have learned Esperanto since its creation in 1887, but English, according to specialists, has better chances to become a global language.
So why not learn it?
Last Updated (Friday, 19 February 2010 16 : 39).
Read the text and say whether the sentences below are true or false?
Read the text and say whether the sentences below are true or false.
Nearly 265 million people live in the USA and speak English.
Although approximately one out of eight people in the US speaks a language other than English at home, there are more native speakers of English there than in any other country.
American English is very flexible and has absorbed many words from the languages of immigrants.
Words like liaison and rendezvous (from French), and rodeo and tornado (from Spanish) came into the language because France and Spain once controlled parts of North America.
Dutch and German settlers gave words such as waffle and cookies, and hamburger and noodles to American English.
The first English speakers to arrive met Native Americans who spoke many different languages.
To trade with them, the Europeans learned words from the local languages, and some of these words became part of American English.
The Europeans also learned the Native American names for the places they were passing through.
Over half the states now have Native American names.
1. English is the native language for all Americans.
2. Tornado is a French word.
3. The word hamburger came from German.
4. Europeans learned local words to trade with Native Americans.
5. You can’t see many Indian names of the places on the modern map of the USA.
ПРОШУ ПОМОГИТЕ?
ПРОШУ ПОМОГИТЕ!
A. Do you know.
. how many people on the planet speak English as their native language?
. where English words come from?
. how many words the English language has?
B. Read the text and find out.
More people on our planet speak English than any other language if you don't count Chinesw.
People speak English in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, the United States and some other countries.
Statistics says that more than 450 million or more speak English as their everyday language.
Most English words came from the French or Latin languages.
A lot of people believe that the English language is one of the richest language of the world and has as many as about a million words.
ПОД A СДЕЛАЙТЕ ЗАДАНИЕ, а ПОД В ПЕРЕВИДИТЕ ТЕКСТ.
ЗАРАНИЕ СПАСИБО!
Have you ever thought how many people speak English?
Have you ever thought how many people speak English?
The exact number is difficult to tell, but it is more than one thousand million people, that is 20 per cent of the world’s population.
English is the most widespread language on earth ; it is second only to Chinese in the number of people who speak it.
The English language is now the native language of about 400 million people, and the official language in over 60 countries.
If you add to this the enormous number of people who study English as a foreign language, you will understand that English is a major world language.
At present, 80 per cent of all information in computers is in English, 60 per cent of all international telephone calls are made in English, 60 per cent of the world’s radio stations broadcast in English, and over two - thirds of the world’s scientists wtite in English.
English is also the main language of international conferences.
Airports and air traffic control, medicine, diplomacy, and international competitions.
Some people think that English is going to become even more important as the lingua franca, while most other languages will just die out.
People have long been interested in having one language that could be spoken all over the world.
English has better chances to become aa global language.
First, English is easier to learn than any other language.
Second, it easily borrows local words from the countries into which it expands.
Now English is changing not only in America but in other countries too.
Although different varieties of English will continue to develop around the world, standard English will remain for international communication.
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Как читается этот текст по русски не перевод :English is the most spoken language in the world that is why it is very important to speak and understand it?
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English is the most spoken language in the world that is why it is very important to speak and understand it.
All business is in English.
A lot of world's mail and telephone calls
Everybody knows that ability to speak a foreign language is very important in today's world I personally believe that the most useful foreign language today is English.
First of all.
English is the most popular language in the world.
It is spoken about 470 million people throughout the world, and geographically it is the most widespread language on Earth.
It is used in business and trade : a lot of the world's mail and telephone calls are in English.
Secondly.
English is very useful for traveling.
It is the official language of about 45 nations, and in the countries where English is not the official language, a lot of people speak h anyway.
For example, in France, Germany or Italy you can find many people who are able to speak English.
If you don't know the languages of these countries, you can use English for communication.
English is very important for culture and education.
A lot of articles, films, books and radio programmers' are in English.
Not all of them are translated into Russian.
So if you want to know what they are about, you should learn English.
In the conclusion I want to say, that I believe that learning English is very useful for me and everybody else.
I have been studying it for 8 years and I am going to improve it further.
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1.
What language is studied as a foreign language all over the world?
2. Why do people begin to learn English in many countries?
3. Does English now share the status of official language in some countries?
4. Why is English considered to be an international language?
English is spoken by over a billion people around the world, in other words, by more than a quarter of the world’s population.
It is spoken as a mother tongue in the UK, in former colonies such as Australia and New Zealand, and of course, by the vast majority of the North American population.
It is the second or official language in most of the former empires, and of course, it is studied as a foreign language all over the world, but particularly in Europe now.
This has made it a truly international language.
It is the language of shipping and aviation, of science and technology and of commerce.
Really, the language spoken by the population of small island in the Northern Hemisphere reached a widespread use.
Its introduction to the New World in the 17th century resulted in this hybrid language becoming the second oldest version of English, and the most widely spoken American English.
Then English and American English went east and south.
The colonization of South America, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa were in different ways and linguistically as well.
In India English now shares the status of the official language.
With Hindi it is spoken by over 70 million people – more than entire population of the British Isles.
So English may be really considered to be an international language!
ПОМОГИТЕ?
ПОМОГИТЕ!
ОТВЕТИТЬ НА ВОПРОСЫ К ТЕКСТУ
1.
What language is studied as a foreign language all over the world?
2. Why do people begin to learn English in many countries?
3. Does English now share the status of official language in some countries?
4. Why is English considered to be an international language?
Development of English
English is spoken by over a billion people around the world, in other words, by more than a quarter of the world’s population.
It is spoken as a mother tongue in the UK, in former colonies such as Australia and New Zealand, and of course, by the vast majority of the North American population.
It is the second or official language in most of the former empires, and of course, it is studied as a foreign language all over the world, but particularly in Europe now.
This has made it a truly international language.
It is the language of shipping and aviation, of science and technology and of commerce.
Really, the language spoken by the population of small island in the Northern Hemisphere reached a widespread use.
Its introduction to the New World in the 17th century resulted in this hybrid language becoming the second oldest version of English, and the most widely spoken American English.
Then English and American English went east and south.
The colonization of South America, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa were in different ways and linguistically as well.
In India English now shares the status of the official language.
With Hindi it is spoken by over 70 million people – more than entire population of the British Isles.
So English may be really considered to be an international language!
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English is spoken by over a billion people around the world, in other words, by more than a quarter of the world’s population.
It is spoken as a mother tongue in the UK, in former colonies such as Australia and New Zealand, and of course, by the vast majority of the North American population.
It is the second or official language in most of the former empires, and of course, it is studied as a foreign language all over the world, but particularly in Europe now.
This has made it a truly international language.
It is the language of shipping and aviation, of science and technology and of commerce.
Really, the language spoken by the population of small island in the Northern Hemisphere reached a widespread use.
Its introduction to the New World in the 17th century resulted in this hybrid language becoming the second oldest version of English, and the most widely spoken American English.
Then English and American English went east and south.
The colonization of South America, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa were in different ways and linguistically as well.
In India English now shares the status of the official language.
With Hindi it is spoken by over 70 million people – more than entire population of the British Isles.
So English may be really considered to be an international language!
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1.
What language is studied as a foreign language all over the world?
2. Why do people begin to learn English in many countries?
3. Does English now share the status of official language in some countries?
4. Why is English considered to be an international language?
Development of English
English is spoken by over a billion people around the world, in other words, by more than a quarter of the world’s population.
It is spoken as a mother tongue in the UK, in former colonies such as Australia and New Zealand, and of course, by the vast majority of the North American population.
It is the second or official language in most of the former empires, and of course, it is studied as a foreign language all over the world, but particularly in Europe now.
This has made it a truly international language.
It is the language of shipping and aviation, of science and technology and of commerce.
Really, the language spoken by the population of small island in the Northern Hemisphere reached a widespread use.
Its introduction to the New World in the 17th century resulted in this hybrid language becoming the second oldest version of English, and the most widely spoken American English.
Then English and American English went east and south.
The colonization of South America, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa were in different ways and linguistically as well.
In India English now shares the status of the official language.
With Hindi it is spoken by over 70 million people – more than entire population of the British Isles.
So English may be really considered to be an international language!
Перевод?
Перевод!
People speak english in britain, ireland, the usa, canada, australia and new zealand.
English is the first language for 322million people.
It's a second language for 600 million people.
English is an international language.
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HOW ENGLISH DEVELOPED.
In the 16th century the people who lived in Europe didnt know English.
They couldnt understand English words.
Only those who lived on the British Isles spoke English.
In those years Latin , French, German and Italian were popular on the continent.
Four hundred years later the speakers of English travelled to different places on the planet and carried their language and culture with them.
Today English is more important than any other language has ever been.
It has become the language of the planet , the first truly global language.
Of all the worlds languages it is probably the richest in its vocabulary.
It has borrowed a lot of words from French and Latin , from Greek, Spanish , Italian, and even Russian.
Now English is the first language or mother tongue in the Englidh - speaking countries.
It has become the second language in countries like India , Nigeria , and Singapore.
Then there is English as a foreign language.
People teach and learn English as a foreign language in Europe and Asia , in Africa and South America , in other words , all over the world.
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Ответ : Вы когда - нибудь задумывались, сколько людей говорят по - английски?
Их довольно много!
Географически английский язык является самым распространенным языком на земле, и он уступает только Китайскому по количеству людей, которые говорят на нем.
На нем говорят на Британских островах, в США, Австралии, Новой Зеландии и большей части Канады и Южной Африки.
Это около 400 миллионов человек.
Английский является также вторым языком еще 300 миллионов человек, живущих в более чем 60 странах.
Если вы добавите к этому огромное количество людей, которые учатся понимать и говорить по - английски (как и вы), вы поймете, что английский действительно "мировой язык".
Во времена Шекспира только несколько миллионов человек говорили по - английски.
Все они жили на территории современной Великобритании.
На протяжении веков, в результате различных исторических событий, английский распространился по всему миру.
Пятьсот лет назад в Северной Америке не говорили по - английски : у американских индейцев были свои языки.
Так же эскимосы в Канаде, аборигены в Австралии и маори в Новой Зеландии.
Англичане прибыли и основали свои колонии .
Сегодня английский язык представлен на всех континентах и в трех основных океанах - Атлантическом, Индийском и Тихом.
Английский язык является результатом смешивания с другими языками по всему миру.
Он, наверное, самый ненасытный заемщик слов.
Слова недавно придуманные или модные в одном языке очень часто добавляются также и в английский.
В его словаре существуют слова из 120 языков, включая арабский, французский, немецкий, греческий, итальянский, русский и испанский.
Другие языки ассимилируя английские слова, слишком часто дают им новые формы и новый смысл.
Так много японцев, французов и немцев употребляют смесь английских слов и своих родных языках, что в результате получаются языки - гибриды, которые называют Japlish, Franglais и Denglish.
В японском языке, например, есть глагол Makudonaru, что означает "поесть в Mcdonald's.
" Одним из многих языков - "англичан", на которых говорят и пишут сегодня, является Евро - английский.
Евро - английский имеет свои истоки на политической арене Европейского сообщества.
Столетие назад некоторые лингвисты предсказывали, что однажды Англия, Америка, Австралия и Канада будут говорить на разных языках.
Однако с появлением записей, кино, радио и телевидения, два направления английского языка даже начали сближаться снова.
Британцы и американцы, вероятно, сегодня говорят более похоже, чем 50 или 60 лет назад.
(В 1930 - х и 1940 - х годах, например, американские фильмы дублировались в Англии.
Это больше не делается сегодня).
Люди давно заинтересованы иметь один язык, на котором могли бы говорить во всем мире.
Такой язык способствовал бы расширению культурных и экономических связей и упростил бы общение между людьми.
На протяжении многих лет было предложено не менее 600 универсальных языков, включая эсперанто.
Около 10 млн.
Человек учили эсперанто с момента ее создания в 1887 году, но английский, по мнению специалистов, имеет больше шансов стать глобальным языком.
Так почему бы не учить его?
Последнее Обновление (Пятница, 19 Февраль 2010 16 : 39).