why English is being more and more important?
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The British Council says "English is the main language of books, newspapers, airports and air-traffic control, international business and academic conferences, science, technology, diplomacy, sport, international competitions, pop music and advertising.\n\n     Over two-thirds of the world's scientists read in English. Three quarters of the world's mail is written in English. Eighty per cent of the world's electronically stored information is in English. Of the estimated forty million users of the Internet, some eighty per cent communicate in English, but this is expected to decrease to forty per cent as speakers of other languages get online."\n\nWhat our students say about English \n\n     "English is an easy language. There are no accents, the tenses of verbs are simplified and the adjectives are invariable", says Gustavo O. after three years studying it at school. Anaelle S. agrees with him but she finds the many different ways words are pronounced and the spelling difficult to cope with. Nicolas de F. finds it interesting and cool because through it he can understand many films and songs. "You need English to travel around the world - it's a language almost everybody understands - so it's easier to communicate with people from different cultures", says Daniela K. . According to Aldebaran D., "you must speak English if you want a good job especially if you want to work with computers".
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Because grammar is part of the language people need to learn. If we don't use correct grammar, everyone would be talking all funny.
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Right.  English is an amazing language, but unfortunately is not for everyone.  As proven here.
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English is a universal language and it is very important in communication.  To compete for this fast changing world, one has to speak the common language.  Globalizations demands it.  Thailand students must acquire the good English skills in order to compete the demands for employment. Afterall, it would be an edge on our part.
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If it isn't in your country then it isn't important.\nBut I hear that most business is done in english.\nAlso if you are in America and you can't speak proper english ppl will assume that you are less inteligent than most and take advantage of you or not give you the recognition you deserve for your hard work. Also, when you don't speak it correctly you can sound rude, or accidently offend someone. \nBy the way the proper way to say that sentence is: Can you please answer a question for me about speaking english?
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You need to learn English.
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The English language is ignoble, but extremely efficient. If it doesn't have a word, it merely takes it from another language, where as other common languages (Spanish, French) have a Royal Academy that doesn't allow new words' adoption. It is also the language of the two most recently influential countries: first, Britain during the Imperial/colonial era, and now the US.
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YOU would make more sense if you could actually create a coherent English sentence.
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If English is your native language it will be easier to understand. If not, it will be harder but not impossible.
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In my opinion, it is necessary to study English because English is an international language now. You can learn the development,culture,value of the U.S from their language. You can communicate with others anywher in the world.
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Yes, it depends on what you think is "useful".  Many people believe that English is a very useful language because it is a language spoken in some countries with economic power, so you can use English to do international communications and business.  However, if you are a farmer in a small town in China, your native language is probably the most useful to you because it's a language that you can use to communicate with people in your same community.  So it depends on what you want to do with it.\n\nI think the more languages a person knows, the better!
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No, if English is your second language, your grammar and spelling tends to be superior to those that speak it as their first language. I'm Russian, yet I used to have American kids ask me for help on their English.
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first take care of english language first.
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It matters to those of us who attended schools where all this was important, have or had parents to whom it was important and have jobs where it is important. If you can get through life without any of those applying to you, then you may well conclude that it is all somewhat irrelevant and who can blame you?  I think that by anybody's standards it is better to be a good and caring person than one with impeccable spelling and grammar. And having seen your original question, I think that you are worth twenty of those people who are so arrogant and superior about their command of language and who seek to put you in your place.  I'd rather have a good hearted neighbour any day than one with impeccable English!
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It's very important, more so then most anything else.
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Yes there is possibly more English speaking then any other language, yet I doubt it would be spoken all over the world, because nationalities want to keep tradition and want to speak in their own language and not a strange forgien one.
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The reason is very simple. Non-native users of the language normally tend to spell by the sound rather than focus on punctuation and/or spelling. And with English being the global language that it has become, native users should be a bit more considerate, taking into consideration that they are in a state of being able to decipher what actually is meant to be conveyed by the non-natives.