Languages and globalization. The World’s English mania
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Turn to the apparition of a global language as the language of communication and technology 410 million native speakers ~1 billion speak as a second language 54 English speaking countries 1004910 English words according to “GLM”

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By the year 2020 around two billion people (about a third of the World’s population) will speak English as their second language

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In the last festival fourteen of the twenty five competing countries asked for the rules to be changed to allow them to sing in English . They argued that singing in their own language would put them at a disadvantage .

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Majority speakers that are non-native English speakers will outnumber native English speakers by four to one