GLOBAL MARKET FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Nafis Hasan14 Sep, 2021Business

As the most widespread language in human history in recent decades, English has become the lingua franca of the age of the world - the common language. Today, English is spoken by 1.75 billion people - a quarter of the world's population. And this number is expected to grow only. By 2020, the British Council predicts that two billion people will speak or learn English.Thousands of folks across the world are learning English - not just as a hobby - but out of economic necessity.English has the potential to generate opportunities, increase jobs and expand horizons in today's connected world. From the outset, as the language of international trade in the British Empire and its boom during the US economic expansion after the war, the English set the tide of globalization, urbanization and technology like no other language before.