The British Empire was the largest Empire the world has ever known. What they did was snap-up all the undeveloped places and impose their culture on it. This included the English language.
Money, primarily. Several reasons, the main one being that early computers, especially personal computers, were created in an English speaking country and it was necessary to learn English to be able...
A global language used by nonnative speakers in order to still participate intelligently in the areas of, and not limited to finance, politics and science without having complete comprehension of the...
As a first language it is already spoken by 309 to 400 million people. A a second language 199 million to 1.4 billion people. It is an official language in 53 countries. In other words it is already...