English Around the World (I)
全世界的英语（一）
There are More than 3 000 language are spoken in the world.
全世界共有3000多种语言。
Of all these languages, English is the most widely used.
在所有这些语言中，英语的使用最为广泛。
Recent studies show that more than 500 million people speak English as their mother tongue.
近来的研究表明有5亿多人将英语作为他们的母语。
From it's roots in England, the language was spread around the world by English traders and English governments in new lands.
自英语在英格兰扎根以来，就被英国贸易商和英国政府传播至世界各地的新地区。
One of these new lands became the United States of America.
其中的新地区之一变成了美利坚合众国。
The population of the United States is 309 milliom, making it the country with the largest number of native English speakers.
美国的人口有3.09亿，是以英语为母语的人数最多的国家。
About 300 milliom people speak English as their second language.
大约有3亿人将英语作为他们的第二语言。
There are even more people, like some in Europe as well as in China and Jaban, who study English as a foreign language.
还有更多人，比如欧洲、中国和日本的人将英语作为外语来学习。
English has become the base language for international business, for the world's airlines and even for the Internet.
英语已经成为国际商业、国际航空甚至是网络的基本语言。
Whatever language people speak, they need to know some English if they work in these fields.
无论人们的母语是什么，如果他们想在这些领域工作，就必须得知道一些英语。
It is clear that the English language is becoming more important.
很明显，英语变得越来越重要。
