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在印度南部的马德拉斯的一所学校里,学生们正在上英语课。这些来自贫困家庭的孩子们,正在参加英国文化委员会资助的一项教穷人学英语“的计划。从马德拉斯到莫斯科,从拉莫斯到北京,每天,世界范围内都有不计其数的人在学习英语。时代真的变了。英国著名的英语权威人士夸克解释说:”大约在一千五百年前后,你不会在任何地方看到任何人在学习英语。当时,约有400万说英语的人,不过,他们都热衷于学习其他更重要的语言,如荷兰语等等。“而今天,其他任何一种语言都没有像英语使用的如此广泛,它不再是英国人的专有财产,而成了一种全球性的语言。出版了《英语语言剑桥百科全书》的英国作家克里特尔介绍说:”保守地算来,世界上约有3亿5千万人的母语是英语;另外,有大约3亿5千万人第二语言是英语;此外,还有无数人把英语作为外语。把这些估计数字加在一起,就会算出世界上约有
In a school in Madras, southern India, students are taking English classes. These children from poor families are participating in a program funded by the British Council to teach the poor to learn English. “From Madras to Moscow and from Ramos to Beijing, there are daily, worldwide plans The number of people who are learning English has really changed. ”Quark, a famous English authority in the United Kingdom, explained:“ Around 1500 years ago, you would not see anyone learning English anywhere. At that time, there were about 4 million English-speaking people, however, they were keen to learn other more important languages, such as Dutch. ”Today, no other language is so widely used in English, it is no longer the exclusive property of the British and has become a global language.“ The English-language Cambridge Encyclopedia According to the British writer Kertell, ”conservatively speaking, about 350 million people in the world have native English as their mother tongue. In addition, about 350 million people speak English as their second language. In addition, There are countless people who use English as a foreign language. Add up these estimates together, it will calculate the world’s covenant