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What is a global language?
• 1578 4 mi people spoke english
• 2014: 2 bi people
• HOW?
From Glory...
Adriano´s wall LatimSaxony invasions Latim + lingual célticas / galelicas)
to fall
England as a island had to GO to the sea
Drake, Hawkins, Water Raleigh, Frobisher
... and Glory
battles are important to change the course like
Not “Empresa de la inglaterra”
Battles are fundamental
• Spanish Armada
• Trafalgar
• Battle of Britain
• El Alamein
UK reach ¼ of the world population and dominates 1/5 of all the land UK x ES x FR x PT
Now the americans
Industrial revolutionAmerican power
WW2Cold warIT
Culture
vs Madarim• to 300 English speaker natives and 200 people that
have English as a second language, 1500 people are learning english
• Mensure of the importance of a language – measure the power of the ones who speak it
• USA GPD is the double of China with 1/3 of their population. • If China economy grown even more
– well, let´s see – companies sell to the ones who have money, like Samsung to USA and
Europe
Nowadays: Internet languagesEN – 536 miCH – 445 mi
ES – 153Jap - 99 mi
PT and RU - 59 mi each
Nowadays: Absolute• Today is common language is important domain
– Aviation– Science – Commerce– IT
• 1/3 of the books are publish in English• 2/3 of the scientist ready in English• 45% of all e-communication is made in English
South east Asia has more people speaking English than US and England. The investment can go to there if we are not capable
References• http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm• http://www.britainexpress.com/History/battles/index.
htm• http://www.englishdomain.eu/English---why-is-
english-important-nowadays.html?sect=menu3• http://www.experienceenglish.com/social-
english/articles/10-reasons-learn-english• http://www.esoe.co.uk/blog/4-reasons-why-learning-
english-is-so-important/