How did English become the ‘global language’?
<p>More people speak Spanish than English as their first language. Nearly three three times as many speak Mandarin Chinese in their family homes. Yet few would dispute that English is the leading world language.</p>
<p>This is because English is the world’s <em>lingua franca</em> or common second language, as this table shows.</p>
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<p>English is the most popular second language (L2)</p>
<p>English is the international language of business, commerce, science, medicine, and many other key areas. Even in diplomacy, where French once ruled supreme, English is now dominant in most regions of the world.</p>
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