The Spread of English.....


Compared with other lingua francas, the long arm of English stretches rather far.  Take a look a the two maps below.  The first one shows the spread of English all over the globe.  The second one shows, besides English, six other lingua francas in the world. English is in green.  The others are Arabic, Chinese, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.


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Say that again......


But English certainly sounds different when it comes out of the mouths of so many people.  Here are two videos that tell us a little bit more about that.  No offense intended.  They are meant to be funny.






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