English as a World Language

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Today, when English is one of the major languages in the world , it requires an effort of the imagination to realize that this is a relatively recent thing - that in Shakespeare's time , for example, only a few million people spoke English, and the language was not thought to be very important by the other nations of Europe, and was unknown to the rest of the world.