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 Many people say that English is the hardest language to learn if you were not bornin a primarily English speaking home. English is the most common language spokenall over the globe and in order to do business deals or travel to foreign lands thosewho do not know how to speak English need to do so. Knowing the Englishlanguage will help people travel more easily and be able to communicate with othersfrom different backgrounds. Some important facts why you have to learn English.2tion.com Online Spoken Training is an absolute free training package for improving your English.
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Amazing Facts of English
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nglish is the most widespread language in the world and ismore widely spoken and written than any other language.
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Over 400 million people use the English vocabulary as amother tongue only surpassed in numbers, but not indistribution by speakers of the many varieties of Chinese.
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Over 700 million people, speak English, as a foreignlanguage.
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Of all the world's languages (over 2,700) English is arguablythe richest in vocabulary; and that the Oxford EnglishDictionary lists about 500,000 words, and a further half-million technical and scientific terms remain uncatalogued.
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Three-quarters of the world's mail, telexes and cables are inEnglish
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The main language used throughout the world on theinternet is English.
 
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More than half of the world's technical and scientificperiodicals are in English.
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English is the medium for 80% of the information stored inthe world's computers.
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5 of the largest broadcasting companies in the world (CBS,NBC, ABC, BBC and CBC) transmit in English, reachingmillions and millions of people all over the world.
 
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Over two-thirds of the world's scientists read in English.
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Three quarters of the world's mail is written in English.
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Eighty per cent of the world's electronically storedinformation is in English.
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Of the estimated forty million users of the Internet, someeighty per cent communicate in English, but this is expectedto decrease to forty per cent as speakers of other languagesget online."
 
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'Stewardesses' is the longest word typed with only the lefthand.
 
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'Lollipop' is the longest word typed with your right hand.
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'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' uses everyletter of the alphabet.
 
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There are two words in the English language that have allfive vowels in order: 'abstemious' and 'facetious.'
 
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'Typewriter' is the longest word that can be made using theletters only on one row of the keyboard.
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'Rhythm' is a rare six letter word in English with no vowels init
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The word "queue" is the only word in the English language thatis still pronounced the same way when the last four letters areremoved.
 
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Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has themost definitions.
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What is called a " French kiss" in the English speaking world isknown as an " English kiss" in France.
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" Almost" is the longest word in the English language with allthe letters in alphabetical order.
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"Rhythms" is the longest English word without the normalvowels, a, e, i, o, or u.
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English is the most widespread language in the world and ismore widely spoken and written than any other language.
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Over 400 million people use the English vocabulary as a mother tongue.
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Over 700 million people speak English as a foreign language.
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Of all the world's languages (over 2,700) English is arguably therichest in vocabulary.
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Three-quarters of the world's mail, telexes and cables are inEnglish.
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The main language used throughout the world on the internet isEnglish.
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More than half of the world's technical and scientific periodicalsare in English.
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English is the medium for 80% of the information stored in theworld's computers.
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 No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange,silver, and purple.
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"Ough" can be pronounced in eight different ways. Thefollowing sentence contains them all: "A r ough-coated, d ough-faced pl oughman strode through the streets of Scarbor ough, coughing and hicc oughing th oughtfully.
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The last thing to happen is the ultimate. The next-to-last is the penultimate, and the second-to-last is the antepenultimate.
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