English is undoubtedly the unique worldwide language that is spoken on every continent. It’s the official language in more than 80 countries. In addition, speaking nations are responsible for about 40% of world's total GNP. However, with more than 330 million native language speakers belongs English to the most spoken languages in the world.
English can be heard nearly everywhere on the planet, but mainly among scholars and knowledgeable individuals. What’s more, English is considered to be the language of film, TV, pop music and the computer world, and the media world.
English can be heard nearly everywhere on the planet, but mainly among scholars and knowledgeable individuals. What’s more, English is considered to be the language of film, TV, pop music and the computer world, and the media world.
The causes for this universality are clear and easy to understand. English started to spread during the 16th century when British Empire was expanding to other continents, and was powerfully fortified in 20th by USA world mastery in political, economic and military facets and by the enormous influence of American films, which were very popular in Europe.
The notion of an universal Language is important just now, in the age of world mass communication. Before this age Greek, Latin, French were to some extent worldwide languages, though mostly in Europe.
By a lucky coincidence as a result of variables above, this universal language belongs to the most straightforward and easiest natural languages on the planet. The only other easy and straightforward languages are the built ones.
The notion of an universal Language is important just now, in the age of world mass communication. Before this age Greek, Latin, French were to some extent worldwide languages, though mostly in Europe.
By a lucky coincidence as a result of variables above, this universal language belongs to the most straightforward and easiest natural languages on the planet. The only other easy and straightforward languages are the built ones.
Of course the notion of easiness is not absolute, and it depends upon which language you understand already. Yet the notion of ease is not deniable: English is a simple language to learn, manage and talk. A complicated language like Hungarian would be an extremely unlikely candidate for a worldwide language. That’s logical, right?
Not mentioning that verb conjugation is simple and very easy. Regular verbs have just four types: Infinitive + Present, Past Tense + Past Participle, 3rd person singular Present Indicative, Present Participle.
There are virtually no Inflections. No gender or number inflection articles, for adjectives, adverbs. For adjectives there's merely comparative and superlative, practically just amount for nouns.
English is among the most analytic languages, with no major agglutinative, fusional or artificial features.
Not mentioning that verb conjugation is simple and very easy. Regular verbs have just four types: Infinitive + Present, Past Tense + Past Participle, 3rd person singular Present Indicative, Present Participle.
There are virtually no Inflections. No gender or number inflection articles, for adjectives, adverbs. For adjectives there's merely comparative and superlative, practically just amount for nouns.
English is among the most analytic languages, with no major agglutinative, fusional or artificial features.