The Spread of English

English has become more and more popular in today’s competitive world. I admit that the popularity of this language is definitely a positive trend, even though it poses a threat to the local language.
The widespread use of English is a great way to promote international cooperation between various companies located in different countries. There are a wide variety of languages in the whole world, which presents some challenges to cross-cultural communication between people having different backgrounds. At the same time, people are difficult to share their creative ideas, state-of-the-art skills, fresh thoughts and so on with potential foreign collaborators. Conversely, if people are all fluent in English, knowledge-sharing will be very easy to achieve, and thus some international projects will process smoother and quicker, which make a lot of money for two parties.
The growing popularity of English also allows people to be able to keep pace with contemporary worldwide development. Nowadays, English has become the widest language. Not only is it used by the largest number of people but also many primary worldwide news outlets, such as BBC and CNN, all choose English as their general language. Therefore, if people have a good command of English, they will get the latest current affairs from different countries, the most up-to-date research breakthroughs in various scientific fields, and stuff like that, which will definitely help people become a broad-minded person.
On the other hand, pushing forward the use of English has some negative influence, which will cause damage to the development of the local language, especially minority languages. Since almost these languages are likely to hand down from ancient times, so they usually contain their local characteristics and can be seen as a symbol of traditional culture. If people, especially the young, devote a lot of their available time to learning English, they will not pay much attention to their native language. As time goes by, the culture behind the mother tongue will be vague, leading to the risk of cognition of own identity.
In conclusion, I know that facilitating the spread of English is good for the work between multinational enterprises and individual development, but it also has an adverse effect on other languages.