What is the future of the English language?Will Mandarin Chinese replace English as the language of business? Should native English speakers learn another language?
With companies around the world increasingly doing business in English, it might seem like English is quickly becoming the world’s lingua franca. But a book (shown on the right) featured in the Economist argues that's not the case.
A growing number of people are learning English as a second language, while the number of native English speakers is not increasing as fast. So what happens when people decide to stop learning English? Will another language take its place?
The advancement of technology and translation may even crumble language barriers in the future. It is becoming easier to communicate with someone through the aid of an interpreter. And with the new Word Lens app on the iPhone, we can see a bright future for translation technology!
What are your thoughts about the future of the English language? Is it too soon to predict its downfall?
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Apparently President Obama wants everyone to learn a foreign language, but which one should it be?
The British learn French, the Australians study Japanese, and the Americans prefer Spanish. Yet this leaves Mandarin Chinese, Russian and Hindi, out of the equation.
It's time to move forward and adopt a neutral non-national language, taught universally in schools worldwide,in all nations.
As a native English speaker, I would prefer Esperanto
Your readers may be interested in the following video at http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_YHALnLV9XU Professor Piron was a translator with the United Nations in Geneva.
The study course http://www.lernu.net is now receiving 120,000 hits per month. That can't be bad :)
its very nice post, i ll just tell about the fall of the english language that Chinese is language use by a very large population of world. But English is language of
communication between all countries. Last 5-10 years English is very popular in China
because of business requirement. Chinese companies start targeting Global market for their
business. So combination of English & Chinese is invent new communication language chinglish
which is very popular in coming days
chinese translation
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