REASONS FOR THE POPULARITY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Keywords:
global language, companion, outside of business, universal language, personal reasons.Abstract
This paper will focus on the aims to show for us why English known as a global language and why other languages do not have this ability. It is argued that English as a global language has some advantages to people around the world. One of the advantages is that English language is utilized as a tool of communication, empowerment and unification of people in the global community. In other words, English plays a very important role to unite all the people around the globe regardless their nationalities, cultural backgrounds, or races.
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