Weber's

I believe when you finished reading the title, the initial answer was “English”. And I agree with that, I personally don’t believe any other language is able to flip it over in this century. Since we already read relative articles and discussed about the dominance of English in class, I would like to dig a little deeper into it and take a closer look at the possibilities of whether one another major language will take it over.         First of all, which language is the most possible one? One thing I’ve noticed is the list of languages in terms of using population on the Wikipedia and Baidu. Chinese, without doubt, has the most native speakers, Spanish second with English third. But as we learnt from the reading by David Crystal, the world language is not determined by how much native speaker a language has, but how many none-native people is learning and using it as a second, third or fourth language. And I totally agree with his opinion. So let’s take...

I don’t know if that’s too universal, but as a foreign student comes from China, I want to talk a little about my stories here in the U.S. related to language, especially Chinese with English and cross cultural communication based on my own experiences. Everyone knows that most of the time it’s not easy to communicate with foreigners who shares a different mother language. But for me, I indeed have found something interesting in past a few months. I’m a competitive cyclist for many years so when the first time I came here I focused on find a local team to continue building up my cycling career here in D.C. And it wasn’t hard, I get contact with a local cycling club very soon. So those people, who are in the local club, was the very first group of American friends I’ve ever made outside the campus. It’s always relatively easier to make friends with group of people who share a same interests or goals with you regardless different races and languages isn’t it? And I believe, spor...