English as a lingua franca: Dorie Clark artikelanalyse

The article English - the Language of Global Business? Is written by Dorie Clark.

In the start of the text we hear about Mandarin becoming the preferred language of business because the growing economic in china, but that’s not going to happen anytime soon because the English language has been going from being “a marker of the elite” to “a basic skill needed for the entire workforce”. If you want to become a global leader you necessarily need to speak a second maybe even a third language the text says Women speaks better English than men not just in some areas but worldwide, and we use more English in the international sectors compared to what we use in the local sectors. English is best spoken in Europe, where the Asian countries are in the middle and every other lag behind the Europeans and the Asians.

Positive sides of English being a global Lingua Franca:

The positive sides of English being a global Lingua Franca, is that almost everybody can talk just a bit of English and if it’s no positive that almost the whole world can communicate through English and besides that around 2 billion people is studying English on a higher level. You can communicate with other firms from other countries, but it’s not just the communication that’s the only positive part because it’s also a way YOU can express yourself, you can make the world see you for you and not just for what they see when they look at you, cause you are much more than a look you are a voice and because of the English, you can express yourself not just for some body but for everybody.