Paper 4 Question 1
Over the years English has increased in popularity and more countries are being obligated to learn English. Countries like China, Indonesia, and Sweden, it’s mandatory to learn English. As it’s grown in popularity the majority of its speakers speak it as a second language rather than it being s first language. Because of the popularity English has reached, many are thinking of making it the official global language. A global language is a language that’s so spread out across the world that everyone would know it. Setting it as the official global language could prevent any miscommunications when two countries speak to each other. This could be between the UK and China or China and France. The chances of someone that speaks only mandarin and someone that speaks only french meeting in the middle to speak english are way higher than they used to. According to the article “The World Economic Forum estimates about 1.5 b...