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We used to be split up in tribes and all developed a different way of communicating which evolved into the languages we have today thanks to advances in communication languages may be merged in a few centuries or millenniums to form one big language but that would have to happen over time we can't just switch language think how hard it would be to learn it

Yes, I know that it would be hard to just change language. Maybe we* could do it so every country does English in school.

* I do not mean "we" but the world.

What language would it be?Then wouldn't most contries start learning a new language I guess its fine the way it is.

Yes, it is fine the way it is but it can be better is every country speaks English, Spanish, ect.*

* Those big languages.

Yes but their language is part of their culture everyone having the same language just promotes uniformity and I think Cantonese should be learnt if we do change since it is actually the most spoken language

well everyone is using English language everywhere so English might be the only and easiest to learn

But I do not want to learn Chinise and Japanese, those are hard to learn...
Info: Many have tried to make an international language, none have succeded.

Info: Many have tried to make an international language, none have succeded.

Esperanto is the most modern version. But sadly only nerds know how to speak it.

It is based on the western languages, mainly Latin and the more Scandinavic languages:
Estas tre facila, kaj la gramatiko ne ke malbona.
As it is a constructed languages made from the western languages, any person from east would have a hard time understanding and using the language. Rememeber such a thing as Japanese. R's are pronounced like weird L's for once, thus making many of the words useless.

Esperanto

Another example is Volapuk, an older constructed language: Volapuk

Actually, English is said to be one of the hardest languages to learn.

i disagree with ernie,lauguages from asins are harder than english.

English is the hardest to learn, if you were not born in an English speaking country you would have a hard time learning it.

It's impossible just to have one language. People are already used to their native language and it would be too much effort to change.

it is actually harder to learn English, as we have the same words for different things, and same sounds for different thing, e.g. too, and to, and two. in a lot of other languages each thing has its own word.
interesting fact:Americas national language was nearly German, but English won by a few votes.

Japanese is the easiest to learn, and I'm not saying this because I'm Japanese either. You say learning Japanese is hard, but you are just looking at the system of writing. If you just heard the language being spoken, you would understand that it's not very hard at all. English has so many silent letters spoken, grammatical accidentals, preferences, and the words totally strafes away from its actual pronunciation. Lemme give you a practice sentence:

"mienai mirai ni okoru koto subete ni imi ga aru kara"

"There's meaning in everything that happens in the unseen future."

What you see is what you say.

i disagree with ernie,lauguages from asins are harder than english.