Why is English a world language?

English was first spoken in England, today 350 million people talk English as their first language. Today people talk English in The United States, India, Nigeria, United Kingdom, Phillipines, Canada and Australia for example. How did this happen? What happened in Australia? How and where is English used today?

There are several reasons for this, the main reason is that the pirates started to sail around the world and doing business with other countries. Then they spread the language, because people who wanted to do business with the Englishmen who travelled around the world had to talk English to understand each other. They were sailing around and dealing silver, gold, tobacco and different stuff. In Australia, the Englishman came and dealed with the Aussies, some of the things they very dealing was tobacco, cotton, silver and gold.

English is used in many countries like a said.

Many people talk English

Many people talk English, about 350 million persons talk english as their first language. And about 350 million people have English as their Second language. One example is us Norwegian, we talk Norwegian in norway, but we also talk English when we are travelling around the world and in the business life, we use it very much and maybe we dont think we use it a lot, but we do.

Young people always use english on the computer and read a lot of it on the internet.

85 per cent write emails on english.

This is facts to prove that English is a very important language, and a lot of people talk English : )

About Vegar Sivertsen

Hei!

My name is Vegar Sivertsen, I am sixteen years old, I am living in the rich Norway and my home city is Trondheim. I have family, not a very big one, but not a small one either. I have a brother, mother and a father. I also got a dog and her name is Sarah, she is a flatcoated retriever.

Things I like to do is to play handball, hang out with friends, and maybe take a few beer in the weekends. I love to play handball, we have trainings seven times in week. In the weekends, when it is handball season we play handball matches and our team is very clever, we wins a lot.
I also like to meet friends and specially girls, love is very important to me.

I like to cook food to my family some times, and my parents says that the food I make is very nice.

I have a motorbike which is very important to me, because I dont like to take the bus to the school and when I am going to a workout. So I always use my motorbike when I am travelling around the city.

I have also travelled a lot in other countries, I have been to Spain, Thailand, Bali, Turkey, Sweden, Denmark. This summer we went to Egypt. It was very nice people in Egypt, they were very friendly and kind. The food was nice, but we had to look out for what we were eating. Because the food you are'nt use to can make u sick.

Before the summer vacation I finished Secondary school. My last school was Charlottenlund ungdomsskole. My new school is Brundalen videregående skole, and this school is very nice. I love to go school every morning, I feel that it is a reason to go to school, because the people and the teacher are very kind.

That is enough about me, hope you guys like it.

Vegar Sivertsen