It is said that the advantages of using English as a
global language will continue to outweigh its disadvantages.
To
what extent do you agree or disagree?
Since the USA became the most powerful nation in the world, and France lost its command over the world, English has taken its role as a global language. However, it is now controversial whether English will last its authority over the world in the future or not. In this essay, I will discuss the current situation that English confronts, and the reason why it will start to lose its power.
First, China became a new competitor of the USA as it is being developed very rapidly these days. As economic power of the country grows, Chinese would also be widely used for people all around the world. This phenomenon can be observed particularly in the case of multinational conglomerates. In fact, many Korean corporations which have commercial relationship with Chinese companies hire employees who can speak Chinese fluently. Thus, from this example, one can expect that lots of international companies in other nations would use Chinese which is actually true. Thus, one can say that authority of English in the world is now being weakened.
Furthermore, people who have various nationalities are taking crucial roles in many international facilities. Even though it was not easy in the past, now people started to do so because their budget condition got better as their nations have gone through economic growth. For instance, the chiefs of several facilities such as UN and WHO are not whites from English using countries, whereas they came from the third countries. Like this, as influence of people from diverse countries was enhanced, a wide variety of languages are used in the fields, which means it would be more beneficial to use those different languages to communicate easily with each other.
To summarize, I would like to say that the past when English was the most influential language has gone, and there will be more languages which will be widely used in the world. Moreover, it would be more advantageous to use those diverse languages, as world’s situation changes.