why people says english is an international language??
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Americans and Englishmen have always found people willing to speak their language because it's useful; this has led to the arrogant assumption that English is spoken by everyone, or will be.  This accords well with the political and economic ambitions of the "neo-conservatives" as well as the old-fashioned English imperialists.\n\nFor better than 90 % of the world's population, English is not a means of communication. Indeed, it may be in decline as a subject of study:\nhttp://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/02/0226_040226_language.html\n\nEnglish is a very difficult language to learn unless you've been immersed in it since birth. English spelling is said to be more difficult than any other language except Gaelic. English grammar, although it may be fairly simple, is riddled with exceptions. Verbs are very often irregular. Many people just aren't going to devote several years of effort to learn it!  English has gained its present stature because of the current economic and political power of English-speaking countries. In the past, every super-power has briefly seen its native tongue used internationally: France, Spain, Portugal, the Roman empire. In fact, one of the main reasons why Esperanto was never adopted by the League of Nations was that France blocked efforts to adopt it. At the time, French was "the international language", and France expected it to stay that way forever. They were proven wrong within twenty years.\nAlthough many people all over the world study English and often think they speak it well, the number of people who can participate in a non-trivial conversation in English is very small outside English-speaking countries. Knowing English may be sufficient to survive as a tourist in many places, but not for most. \n\nMe, I speak English; but I'd rather we all learned Esperanto!
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Because there is no such thing as proper english. English as a language evolves, from shakespearean era english.. to victorian era english... to present day english. The closest reason as to why singlish is not accepted as "proper english" is because its usually full of grammatical errors and the fact that its a hybrid of english, mandarin, hokkien, malay, tamil and i dont know what else. Its pretty much like Frankenstein, if you think about it. And Frankenstein could never be human.
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Um , because English borrows from almost all languages. If you recall, the Brits 'managed' India for many years and those words likely drifted into English, because of course those concepts did not exist in English, likely because of the fact that Christianity does not encourage concepts like 'avatar' and 'guru'.
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if it isnt your first language, and you live in america, it is important to learn english as your second language because so many every day interactions are in english. many people in this country only speak english, so you would have a tough time if you couldnt speak it-- thats why its better to learn it if you can, to help you function in social interactions.
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Because the word "universal" means that everone shares it.  If there were 2 or more, then people would have to learn perhaps 2 non-native languages in order to communicate with the world.  \n\nChina and Germany have both learned English in order to globalize.  Germans are some of the best English speakers in the world.  And they don't regard it as being any big deal that they can speak it.  It is just life.  At the time that the world started to globalize the world wanted to do business with the worlds largest economies which were the US, and others who wanted to do trade with the US.  \n\nMore people in the world speak English than any other language regardless of what that guy above said.  More people speak Chinese(in its myriad of dialects) than English. But if you add the total number of English speakers including, Indians, Philipino, French, Chinese etc all of which have learned the language and some very well then you have most of the world.\n\nPhilinos whose mother tongue is often Tagalog can speak English nearly as good as someone from the States and are sometimes employed as English teachers as a "native speaker" though not often.  \n\nWe need one language.  Do you agree?  \n\nIf a Frenchman, and a Spaniard and a Chinese are having a conversation at a hotel in Brazil, what langauge are they speaking?  English of course.  I have seen this situation many times.
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English is the language of educated people all over the world.  One who is fluent in English can get by just about anywhere.  Furthermore, English is the common language of the United States -- the most advanced culture the world has ever known.
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English is a tough language.
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English is really a language made up with all different languages put together and phrases. People from different places speak differently. It all depends on the environment. There is no REAL English, except for maybe in England (It technically was their language first(?)). Such as there is no such thing as a TRUE American. All Americans are, are immigrants and foreigners. About the cigarettes being called fags, someone just happened to use normal words and twist them. Think of all the 'terrible' words we have now a days and if you look them up in the dictionary, they all have different meanings than what we use them for.
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You don't "select" an international language. This should be a language of the most intellectually and technically advanced nation. In the previous millennium the fitst international language was French, before WWII it seems we had two international languages - German and English, now we have English. It became "lingua franca" because after WWII the US became the most economically and technically advanced nation. That is why, whether you like it or not, you've got to learn English.Then, of course, a language which is supposed to be international has to have a rich litterary and cultural tradition.\nAll the aforementioned is not the case of artificial languages like esperanto, that is why they are not widespread.\nBy the way,  English  is not a very easy language, but I wouldn't say it is that difficult.\nFrench is much more difficult.\nConjugation of Spanish verbs is very difficult, and business Spanish is not easy either.\nRusian is an extremely difficult language.\nAnd Hebrew, in spite of the fact that it is, in a way, an "artificial" and "mathematical" language (I mean modern Hebrew), is a very difficult language too.\nWhich means, again, that there are no "easy" languages. You've just got to learn a foreign language. And it takes time and a lot of perseverance, beleive me. The earlier you start - the better.
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There are works that require to speak another language. Some companies have clients / suppliers abroad the US and require people in their company to speak another language. Not to mention in the tourism industry.\n\nNow, if english is not required to the operation of the business, I still don't see the problem of people speaking in another language, as far as they can properly communicate in english when required. Every worker must be able to communicate in english to others in their company. I am sure there can still be exceptions to this rule and it should be taken in account.\n\nImagine a company that needs an expert to work for them and their only options are people from abroad, non-english speakers. Should the company stop hiring someone they need until this person learns english properly? I don't think so, the company I worked for before was in a situation like this. Such cases should be justified though.\n\nMy point is, a strict rule of "english only" ain't exactly the best solution, at least from my point of view. Circumstances and business goals should be taken in account without neglecting the fact that english must be always the first option to communicate among workers and with clients / suppliers.\n\nI feel at times that there are chauvinist arguments that seem to forget every possible business scenario and how it affects their operations.\n\nBye
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That's a good question.  I think the rise of email and instant-messaging has rapidly spawned a type of shorthand that is taking the place of proper written English.  Combine that with the fact that many educators, even some college professors, do not expect good English communication skills, and you have a rapid meltdown of the English language into a mass of codewords and unintelligible jargon.  All around us, we are seeing the Balkanization of written and spoken English.\nOf course, I don't expect foreigners whose primary language is not English to be perfectly fluent.  But I do expect people who have been speaking English for their entire lives to be able to form a coherent sentence or two.\nKeep your standards high!
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It is a local language.It is not the l;anguage of most people of the states which say it is theirs because those people have other languages but are afraid of the Hindi bullies and so falsely state their language as Hindi in the Census.Many of them migrated to Fiji, nothern part of S.America,U.K., USA., etc. where they speak it. Hindi is misused by its native users to bully & cheat others to get jobs & privileges and deprive others. It is not a national language but with English was made an Offical Language. Now, its users do not want English and want others to learn Hindi and asked the U.N. to make it a U.N. language out of sheer ego & hate for others. Sanskrit is not the origin of Tamil. It is not easy to learn Hindi or Sanskrit both of which have cranky grammars. The Govt of India & of some states  made it compulsory for all so tht Hindi speakers an get jobs and othes can be jobless in their own states.It is a new language made from Urdu or Hindustaani & other derivaives of Sanskrit & local dialects of the north India. There are much older other languages such as Tamil which is not derived from Sanskrit .
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It's actually quoted as an example even in the Oxford Dictionary. They say it's spoken English and used instead of "why". I agree with those who think it's not excellent English, but you know, use sometimes is sovereign and creates rules of its own!
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Why promote the English language? Isn't it already internationally promoted? \n\nWe should promote other languages which are facing the dangers of extinction. Stick to your mother tongue first!
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because, we need english to communicate with other people and to learn. English is one of the most spoken languages! We learn, we speak, english is very important to learn.
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English doesn't make sense, that's why.
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I agree, English is easy.  I learned English at the age of 16 and it only took me 6 months to speak it.  I believe that is one of the reasons it has become the main global language.  Almost everyone with little knowledge of English can easily speak it, even if it's not perfectly spoken they can still communicate with others.  It is very instinctive, you can almost guess how to say things by just adding "ing" or "ed" or "tion" etc.