English Around the World
There are more than 3,000 languages （speak）in the world. Of all these languages, English is the most (wide) used. Recent (survey) show that more than 500 million people speak English as their mother tongue.
From its roots in England, the language was spread around the world English traders and English governments in new lands. One of these new lands (become) the United States of America. The population of the United States is 309 million, (make) it the country with the large) number of native English speakers.
About 300 million people speak English as their second language. There are even more people, like some in Europe as well as in China and Japan, study English as a foreign language.
English has become the base language for international business, for the world's airlines and even for the Internet. Whatever language people speak, they need (know) some English if they work in these fields. is clear that the English language is becoming more important.
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