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 Hello everybody here,  as there are already a few weeks  I've  been thinking about the world of the English language, and then crossed my mind to answer the question: why English is considered a major language? What can have lead to that? So, these are just the questions I want to explicit  here. At first, It could be a curious question, but the reasons for this event make sense when you get to know them  deeply . So, I will try to show for you some of that reasons through my post today, in order to  satisfy my and your likely curiosity about the subject. I hope you enjoy it!

1 - English has simplicity, but, richness at the same time;

  English has 26 alphabets and uses only its 26 alphabets, so, it's a very economic language and don't need to borrow alphabets from other languages, as many other languages do. Moreover, English is rich to express your ideas when framing its words or sentences.

2 - English is a stylish language;

  You can express yourself in English the way you want or think properly. English can be called a language which has "style" in writing and speaking. That is, everyone that write or speak in English can evolve your own style, your own way. Just you start writing to prove what I'm reffering to here.

3 - English is a language with easy understandability;

  Even though, some persons cannot agree with that, English is a language easy to understand when compared to other languages. I'm a living example of this. It doesn't mean that English is the easiest language in the world, but, it's not so difficult  how many persons think. Just to make clear my point, look: If you write a text with the wrong sentence " me from Canada" you, even, can be undestood.

4 - English is a language with huge acceptance of  words;

  English features by allowing a big influx of foreign terms. When there aren't similar words, in meaning, to express a certain idea  Englis borrows that word and put it wit a authentic English accent in dictionaries. English was very influenced by Latin and French languages all over its history of formation. For example, words like "entrepeneur", "fiancée-to-be", "criteria", "phenomenon" and many others which  derive from other linguistic roots. So, when English incorporates words which there aren't in its own vocabulary , that becomes it more resourceful in the way how it can be written and spoken by all of us, including ESL/ EFL learners. That's it, English is a multi-cultured and rich language . Curiosity: The Oxford English Dictionary has currenty a lack of about 1 million of words to express non-existent concepts in the English vocabulary.

5 - English has rulled technology and invention fields;

  Everybody knows, when it comes to the world of new devices and new machines most of them come with their instruction manuals written in English. So, no wonder, English is an outstanding language in the modern world, where, more and more, machines, robots, are taking on the place of  ancient workers at factories. With English , got much more easy  for developers and designers of  Informatics  to build up a new program or  computer, since, most of operating system used by them are in English as a default language.

6 - English  influenced linguistically many territories;

  At the time of English colonisation, England insisted on people to learn it as your main tongue, doing the language very widespread through several parts of the world. Adding that, people that learned English saw it like a precious activity, keeping this attitude till these days.

  So, these are some brief reasons for the fact that English is an undeniable universal language. Bye bye, see you next post guys!!!