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I’ve come here to the British Council who different in accent and also in usage as
work hard to build cultural relations between well.
Britain and the rest of the world, and the
English language is a big part of that. Let’s Richard: And what about the impact of
find out more. technology on a language?
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people learning English, and also teachers by people - it might have been in a speech
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Richard: Martin, tell me about English as a be quite a slow process and new words
global language. might come into a language over a long
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reasons for that are the widespread use of Richard: So technology can change the
English. It’s used in education, it’s used in language, but in what way does it help
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Martin: Well, no, not really. I mean there’s English; they may have a book or an odd
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‘the’ global language which is English in the newspaper, but what the internet allows
sense that English is used in these many them is to read and often to read and
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different contexts; there’s only one. There translate languages like English on a
are other languages which are used very massive scale.
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different places so it’s global in a People learn English for different reasons
geographic sense and it can be global in the and knowledge of the language is often
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numbers, but in terms of the use in different important in fields like medicine, business
areas of education, science, research, and computing. English is becoming more
English is the only global language. and more important in order to
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English?
English opens doors to employment,
Martin: Well, yes, there are lots of different education and mobility. And it helps
types. There's different accents of English. I teachers and learners engage across the
come from the North of England, where I globe. One of the best ways to learn English
have a particular accent. So within England is to study in Britain. But what is it actually
itself, within the UK, there are many like to learn English here?
variations in English pronunciation and that
extends globally, so you see English in Clare: My name is Clare, I am 26 and I
America and used in Australia, which is come from Italy. My course at the North
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