English has been the language of commerce mostly because of history. At one time the saying "The sun never sets on the British empire" was totally accurate. England once had a colony, or territorial rights, to land on just about every continent on Earth. Conquerers and rich folk generally get to make the rules.
For business many languages are needed. English is one of them, butyou will come far with Chinese, Japanese, Russian and so forth. In Denmark, people with business dreams are asked to bevery good at German, as that is one of our business partners.
There are different languages to show that there are different people, anyway, i highly doubt everytone would want to have the same language, by the way you say it, you must be hoping that happens someday, but, it never will
There are different languages to show that there are different people, anyway, i highly doubt everytone would want to have the same language, by the way you say it, you must be hoping that happens someday, but, it never will
You can't say it never will. You do not know that. You can say that you think it won't ever happen, but you do not know it.
Personally I hope that one day there will be a language that everyone learns, while also being taught their native language. It would be a shame if all the little languages died out, but it would be great to be able to communicate across borders with little to no trouble.
I feel that eventually, there will only be a handful of languages in the world. As others have mentioned, English has been a dominant language throughout history due to the great expanse of the British Empire. But now more than ever, English is spreading as well. Look at computer coding languages. If you think that the future lies in technology, then the language of the future is English. (I don't know of any programming languages that are based upon foreign languages).
But also language come from different places, thousands of years ago, we didn't know their was Antarctica or South America until the explorers, so they though they we're the only ones, so they needed something to communicate, and same with other Countries and other places. SO I guess that's how it became many.
I think one's own language is part of one's culture... while having one (or just a few) languages would probably improve communications, I don't see why for instance bilingualism couldn't be just as good. It keeps one's own language, yet also allows him/her to communicate with just about the whole world.
its really hard for people to talk the same.i wish it would be ewveryone would talk english even though im half mexican you could know when someone is insulting you or something
Why cant all those johnny foreigners learn english eh? the language of champions! I belive historically languages changed due to a dispora of human life around the globe each tribe speaking a different dialect. However as for which language is hardest to learn then i will definitely say Greek. I was taught a little when i was a wee baby from my mum and her side of the family and so that helped but with a different alphabet and different pronounciations of the same letter but in a different context makes it very tricky. I also know a little Nigerian too from my dads side. That is very hard, as like many other African dialects, it is based almost entirely on vowels so you can say something and even if its a tiny bit differednt can completely change the meaning of the word.
