How english became a global language?

Antonio Aureliano

antonio.aureliano.edu@gmail.com

What is a global language?

• 1578 4 mi people spoke english

• 2014: 2 bi people

• HOW?

From Glory...

Adriano´s wall LatimSaxony invasions Latim + lingual célticas / galelicas)

to fall

England as a island had to GO to the sea

Drake, Hawkins, Water Raleigh, Frobisher

... and Glory

battles are important to change the course like

Not “Empresa de la inglaterra”

Battles are fundamental

• Spanish Armada

• Trafalgar

• Battle of Britain

• El Alamein

UK reach ¼ of the world population and dominates 1/5 of all the land UK x ES x FR x PT

Now the americans

Industrial revolutionAmerican power

WW2Cold warIT

Culture

vs Madarim• to 300 English speaker natives and 200 people that

have English as a second language, 1500 people are learning english

• Mensure of the importance of a language – measure the power of the ones who speak it

• USA GPD is the double of China with 1/3 of their population. • If China economy grown even more

– well, let´s see – companies sell to the ones who have money, like Samsung to USA and

Europe

Nowadays: Internet languagesEN – 536 miCH – 445 mi

ES – 153Jap - 99 mi

PT and RU - 59 mi each

Nowadays: Absolute• Today is common language is important domain

– Aviation– Science – Commerce– IT

• 1/3 of the books are publish in English• 2/3 of the scientist ready in English• 45% of all e-communication is made in English

South east Asia has more people speaking English than US and England. The investment can go to there if we are not capable

References• http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm• http://www.britainexpress.com/History/battles/index.

htm• http://www.englishdomain.eu/English---why-is-

english-important-nowadays.html?sect=menu3• http://www.experienceenglish.com/social-

english/articles/10-reasons-learn-english• http://www.esoe.co.uk/blog/4-reasons-why-learning-

english-is-so-important/