Recent investigations show that 402 millions of people have English as
their first language, and it is daily used by more than 1000 millions non
native speakers of English. According to the British Council this number will
continue increasing and by the year 2016 about 2000 millions people will be
studying and speaking it, that is to say, half the population of the planet.
Very soon, probably in a few generations, and for the first time in the history
of human race all of us will be able to communicate with a single language in
the world.
That is the biggest blow for worldwide civilization, in the last 25
years. In most of the parts of the planet English is spoken at least a little
bit, so that, if you go whenever you want you are going to be able to “survive”
and communicate with people. This expansion is a truly “earthquake” in the
history if humanity and one of the most important events which has happened in
history since the birth of language. No language before had achieved the
universality that English has got and it is the first time in history that we
can talk about a predominant language in the world.
English language is one of the easiest languages which can be learnt and
this is one of the reasons why it prevailed in the United States. The German
descendants were really numerous at that time in North
America, but English was easiest and finally it was the
victorious!
