More than 3,000 languages are spoken onthe earth today. Many of these languages are spoken1 small groups of people. On the2 hand, over 200 languages are spoken by onemillion or more people. Chinese is the language spoken by the3 number of people in the world. But English ismost4 spoken in the world.
English is spoken by more than 400million people5 their first language. It is6 by most people in the U.S.A., Great Britain,Canada, Australia and New Zealand. And it is7 used very widely in many other countries ofthe world.
Look at the back of your watch. You maysee the English words "Made8 China, or Japan, even Germany." Englishis the first language in9 ofthese countries. Why are English words10 on it? That is because in the modern worldEnglish is widely used for business between different countries.
