Eli5: Why is the English language most common in this world?
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Since we’re mostly a globalized society trying to connect with each other we need a common language we can all communicate in. We can’t possibly learn every single language so the one we’ve chosen is the one of the biggest cultural and economic superpower of the current age and that happens to be America and its language is English.
It also helps that many people want to migrate to English speaking countries so it’s always near or at the top of languages that people want to learn.
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