People use English around the world, from Australia to Zimbabwe and from Albania to Zaire. About 400 years ago, the number of English speakers in the world was probably between 5 and 7 million. Three are now more than 500 million naive speakers.
The USA has the bigger population of English speakers, but English is also the first language in Britain, Ireland, New Zeeland, Canada, Australia and South Africa. China has got the bigger population than all of these places, but Mandarin Chinese is not an international language. Not many people speak Chinese outside China, but an enormous number of people study English as a foreing language.
But how did English become so important there are three main reasons. Firstly, Britain colonized many countries. Secondly, some of those countries became very rich and powerful especially the United States. Finally, international communication became very important, and in many situations we now need an international language.
English is the language of international business, politics, science, tourism and computers. If a Japanese company wants to talk to Arabic clients, they probably speak English.
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