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People from different countries speak different languages. But what is happening now, is that with globalization taking place, other languages somehow gets eroded and it leads to the rise of a language, English language. Even though not everybody knows and speaks English, there is an increasing trend of people attending extra English lesson.
Through globalization, the English language has achieved a status as the world’s official language and it is now a dominant language for two billion people in at least 75 countries. As English is the most common language to communicate scientific, technological, academic, and international trade information. English is clearly the world's lingua franca, but how did it get that way? Part of the reason is the feedback loop driving its history - a dynamic which may serve to illustrate how globalization often is the result of a natural course of events: before English infiltrated the world, many of the world's languages infiltrated English.
English, like so many other aspects of Western culture, has the potential to bring people together, or the power to divide people into classified groups. As the debate goes on, English will continue to grow and change with the same force that has always driven the patchworking of language: the natural desire to exchange goods and ideas. Thus, with that we can see that globalization is also partly due to the dominance of the English Language.
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