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RE: Why is English the lingua franca of our time?

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Zhen LIU

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Author: Lei SHI
Date: Monday, 28 February 2011 17:04:46 o'clock EST
Subject: RE: Why is English the lingua franca of our time?

English is the lingua franca of our time. In my opinion, there are two reasons push English become lingua franca. The first one is that the domination of English-speaking countries such as USA,British and other countries have economy advantages over the world. Especally for the USA , having a abilibty to speak or read English might benefits people to do business with the American.The second reason is that English is easiler than other languages to learn for other countries' people.and English also easy to write. For example, Chinese words, it is hard to write for foreign, people write some word need more time than English.In addition , English is spoken widely in the world and being used not only in business but also in academic field for hundreds of years and it has become the most commonly way for people come from different countries to communicate. These reasons might explain why English is the lingua franca of our time.

English as a lingua franca for a long period, since some English-speaking countries have been a  dominatnt position in world economy, politictis ,and so on. In modern society, English become one of most popular communication tools.  It is clear that many countries use Enghlish as their official language. In addition, in other countries ,although English is not an official languag, but Enghlish is still speaked by substatial people as the second foreign language. In China, it is a popular phenomenon after you graduated, you try to apply a job in  foreign commpany ,the frist two questions by  the personal manager usually are  English profiency and abilities of using computer.  A another pominent example is that you ask the Chinese students which course they have spent the most time on during the college, the asnwer would be English.  To sum up,  due to the increasing importance of English in many field,  today English is the most famous lingfra franca around the world.

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Author: Lei SHI
Date: Monday, 28 February 2011 17:04:46 o'clock EST
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Zhen LIU

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