Zach's PLN on "Whose Language?"

After reading the article, "Whose Language?", by Michael Skapinker, I realized that English is not just stereotyped with the United States of America but the language is growing more and more around the world.The article explained how the English language is ever changing from how we talk, to who speaks it around the world and how it is growing. This affects the world around me a lot because if many more countries were adopting the language then it would make it much easier for all of us that speak English. This could help travelers, incoming immigrants and many more. In the article it states about one in five people around the world can talk basic English and in ten to twenty years it is estimated it could change to one and three people.

This reminds me about Mr. Fisch’s presentation on shift. He mentioned that China would soon be the world’s most English speaking country in the world. That is pretty shocking on how a country other than the United States of America could be the largest speaking English country. I don’t think anyone expected the answer was China in the presentation. This article really shows that shift does happen like Mr. Fisch said.