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1. Is English used as a working language? Yes, it is.
2. Where does English borrow “tofu” from? From Chinese.
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Is English spoken by most people in the world?
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languages. However, most people still think that English will be used most around the world, at least for the next twenty or thirty years.
So who owns English? The answer is everyone who speaks it. ---the British, the Indians and the Chinese all help make it a rich language. Even though we speak different types of English, we are all part of an international club. We all own English.
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Who owns English?
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Is there a foreign teacher at your school?
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Have you ever gone to an English corner at school?
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Did you meet foreigners when you went to places of interest?
Will the importance of English last? As China continues to grow, many people think that Chineassecwomillmboecnoamse和as...c..o一m样mo普n遍as English by the middle of the twenty-first century. More and more schools in Europe are teaching Chinese as a foreigh language, toget学h习e交r流w课件ith some European 13
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It is also important to know that English has borrowed many words from other languages, for example, "restaurant" from French, " zero" from Arabic, " piano" from Italian, and "tofu" from Chinese.