English is generally acknowledged to be the world's most important languge. It is perhaps worth trying to understand briefly the basis for the evalutation. There are after all thousands of languages in the world and are after all thousands of languagues in the world and each seems to uniquely important to those who speak it as their native language, teh language they aquired at their mother's knee. but there are some objective standards to judge their relative importance.
One criterion is the number of speakers of the language. A second is the extent to which a language is geographically dispersed: in how many continents and countries is it used or its knowledge necessary ? A third is its funcitional load : how extensive is the range of purpose for which it is used? In particular, to whait extent is it the medium for highly valued cultural manifestations such as science or literature ? A fourth is the econmic and political influence of the native speakers of the language.
The writer's evaluation of the importance of the English language is based on