English as a Global Tongue English is spoken by more people than any other language in the world, thus it is considered a world language. Today English seems to evolve to a future global tongue, as its spreading on the Internet in recent years shows (almost 80% of the world-wide-web’s pages are now written in English). In this context the English language is accused of being a killer language that wipes out smaller languages as …showed first 75 words of 783 total…

…showed last 75 words of 783 total…progress, stop scientific research and technological inventions. Let us stick to the status quo so we will save some languages!". Who would agree? So we will have to pay the price for a global language. In my opinion the obvious thing to do is to teach people a skilful use of the English language now to let them participate in international communication so they as well will benefit from the advantages of a global tongue.