Why Did English Become the International Language?

This video explores how English became the global lingua franca.

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Outro music: "Gimme Five" by Twin Musicom.

[CaptainHaddocck]

Funfact; English is also the lingua franca in Star Wars

[jamesmiller]

broken English is the most used language on earth.

[andreluizisrael]

I am brazilian and I learned English when I was a teenager. I have never been abroad but I use pretty much my English on the Internet by reading and watching videos.

[Patrick-temm]

I think native english speakers have one big disadvantage: They just learn english and not any other language(often) .

[carlosdominguez]

I'm a native Spanish speaker, and ever since I learned how to speak English as a second language, it definitely changed my life in so many good ways.

[Philc]

As a native speaker (I'm British), speaking English is an easy way to communicate with new people I meet on my travels. But the down side is that, even if you are determined to learn their language, foreigners will insist on speaking back at you in English! This can be a frustrating barrier to learning a foreign language. As a German language learner, I therefore found it necessarily to mask my English accent (not a bad idea anyway) and try very hard to sound like a native German speaker. The result was that many Germans then asked me "So, are you Dutch?" Funny but frustrating!

[Riickastleey]

When you realize that all the aliens in the marvel universe speak english, meaning that britain colonized the entire galaxy:

*LAUGHS IN BRITISH*

[lkejhib]

I am Korean but I could unterstand this very well. and it was really nice. My academy teacher said watch this video for my homework and I watched it!!!! and I have to do speech with this video on this Friday.... oh I'm nervous....

[callusklaus]

Speaks German to a German

German replies in English

I throw myself into the Atlantic

[titi]

"Will Esperanto become the international language?"
"NOPE"
LOL

[annabanana]

I will add also that in some places, English is perceived as “neutral”. For example, modern India is actually a confederation of many different peoples and languages, with a long history of conflict. In south India, there are many mother tongues (Kannada, Telugu, etc), and Hindi is associated with northern aggression. “Why should Hindi be our national language? Then all the northerners have the advantage, as it’s their mother language. If we all have to learn something new, like English, we all begin the same.” Seems to be the attitude. I am sure that the same preference for English could be found in many “new” countries which have united previously opposed groups.

[milanpasaribu]

When i hearing someone speak english
My listening skills:100+

When i try to speak english
My speaking skills:-100

[baharioktafian]

Even Autobots and Decepticons which are from unknown galaxy use English as their second language.

[Smallwitz]

take a shot every time he says lingua franca

[KanalIndonesia]

I'm Indonesian, and everyone speaks English (good or broken) 😂 because we have to learn it from the first grade. I'm currently learning French, but I still love the practicality and the simplicity of English.

[soubhagyakhan]

I am a Indian.I study in an English medium school.English really unites the country.All the formal letters, e-mails we write in English.We are even taught Shakespeare in the higher school.

[Digmen]

Its also the language of computer code.
So if you want to be a programmer....

[momfoldinglaundry]

My favorite quote is, “English is an easy language to speak badly.”

And I believe it’s true. Not only do we lack cases, elaborate word endings and “genders, ” but native English speakers are usually really happy to try and understand non-native English speakers and encourage them to talk more.

That’s unlike the French, say, who dont actually want anyone else to speak French.

[DGill]

Singers and bands from Germany, Sweden, Netherlands etc. sing their songs in English....even if the singer does not know English ! ! This, of curse, is because they want to sell in the "big market"

[nuratinaabdurrahim]

As a Malaysian, I would say most of the people around me understand English but not everybody is comfortable with speaking in English. We use a lot of english words in our everyday conversations though, because Malay has a lot of borrowed words from english.