English as a World Language

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English as a World Language by Mind Map: English as a World Language

1. English

1.1. spoken as an official language in more countries

1.2. has a population of about 1. 6 billion

1.3. The most important language in the world

1.4. it is not hard to find to find impressive statics to prove it

1.5. use

1.5.1. scientific papers

1.5.2. business

1.5.3. mail is written and addressed

1.5.4. more than a billion speakers of English,

2. fact

2.1. English is not always spoken as widely or as enthusiastically as we might like to think.

2.2. English words

2.2.1. are taken just as they are, but sometimes they are adapted to local needs,

2.2.2. everywhere

2.2.3. are given largely contrary meanings

3. English terms that had become more or less universal.

3.1. airport, passport, hotel, telephone, bar, soda, cigarette, sport, golf, tennis, stop, O.K., weekend, jeans, know-how, sex appeal, and no problem.

4. In 1988

4.1. The elite Ecole Centrale de Paris

4.1.1. Made it a requirement of graduation that students be able to speak and write fluent English,

5. Malay is spoken in the civil service

5.1. Chinese in business

5.1.1. English in the professions and in education.

6. Professor C. K. Ogden of Cambridge University in England

6.1. Basic English

6.1.1. consisted of paring the English language down to just 850 essential words,

6.2. Including a mere 18 verbs—be, come, do, get, give, go, have, keep, let, make, may, put, say, see, seem, send, take, and will—

7. English-speaking world

7.1. Have often been highly complacent in expecting others to learn English without our making anything like the same effort in return.

8. forty million people

8.1. America

8.1.1. don’t speak English

8.2. nEngland

8.2.1. do speak

9. problem of deciding whether a person is speaking English

9.1. many Englishbased creoles in the world, such as Krio, spoken in Sierra Leone, and Neo-Melanesian (sometimes called Tok Pisin), spoken in Papua New Guinea.

9.2. Dr. Loreto Todd

9.2.1. sixty-one such creoles spoken by up to 200 million people

9.3. thinks he speaks it.

10. borrowers

10.1. The most relentless borrowers of English words have been the Japanese

10.2. Japanese borrowings

10.2.1. erebata—elevator nekutai—necktie bata—butter beikon—bacon sarada—salad remon—lemon chiizu—cheese bifuteki—beefsteak hamu—ham

11. English

11.1. Is widely spoken in the world because it has some overwhelming intrinsic appeal to foreigners.

11.2. is widely resented as a symbol of colonialism

11.2.1. India,

11.2.1.1. the constitution was written in English

11.2.1.2. English was adopted as a foreign language not out of admiration for its linguistic virtues but as a necessary expedient.

12. 1880 and 1907

12.1. fiftythree universal languages were proposed.

13. Basic English

13.1. system

13.1.1. First: Be able to write simple messages,be able to read anything in English—

13.1.2. Second: Vocabulary is not the hardest part of learning. Morphology, syntax, and idiom are far more difficult