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The Future of English (5)
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·????? Let’s lookat English now
o?? Official language in 53countries
o?? Around 400 million peoplespeak it as a first language
o?? Around 1,400 million peoplespeak it as a second language
o?? 85% of webpages are inEnglish
o?? A knowledge of English isimportant for a wide range of subjects
§? E.g. pilots have to have aknowledge of English
·????? We havespoken about the different Englishes in a previous episode
·????? What do youthink will happen?
·????? Englishmight mix with local languages and become new languages – Singlish in Singapore
o?? French, Spanish, Italian,Portuguese are all languages that come from Latin
·????? But theInternet means that the world is much more connected
o?? Yes, so this means thatEnglish won’t separate too much or there will be two different forms of thelanguage (the written and the spoken)
·?????Englishmight become even easier – English grammar compared to other European languagesis already quite simple
o?? The number of non-nativespeakers mean that grammar might become simpler – Old English is simpler thanmodern English
o?? Languages naturally becomesimpler
o?? Some experts think that‘correct English’ is becoming less important – the Internet means that newvocabulary, expressions and spellings are more relaxed
· ? ? What other possibilities doyou think there might be?
·?????Probablymore people will be bilingual – the languages people learn have always beenbased on not only interest but if they can make money using the language
o?? If English continues to beused for trade, people will still learn it
·????? This is thefirst time there has been a language in a globalised world
·????? The onlything we know is that the story of English has not finished yet
