The reality is, English is spoken in innumerable accents around the globe—not only in regional variations by native speakers, but also by international speakers. If you plan to travel or work in a global industry, there is real value in training your ear to understand a much wider range of accents speaking English.

English as a global language. People often talk about English as a global language or lingua franca. With more than 350 million people around the world speaking English as a first language and more than 430 million speaking it as a second language, there are English speakers in most countries around the world.

Most people consider English to be a global language because it is the one language that is spoken and understood by the majority of the population in almost every region of the world. It is perhaps this worldwide acceptance and usage of the English language that propels it as an extremely essential global language.

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Non-U.S. English Sometimes International English is used to refer to a general standard that is based on English as spoken in the British Isles and most Commonwealth countries (as opposed to American English).

Indian accent

In the main, British English and American English are very similar, even with differences in spelling. In today’s world, American spelling is probably winning thanks to Microsoft’s spell checker. There are vocabulary differences and some can cause embarrassing situations if you only know one flavour.

Singapore

Moldova

Revealed: The richest and poorest cities in the UK

• The data reveals that those living and working in London were the poorest, despite earning the highest average salary in the UK of £2,410.86 per month.
• Richest to poorest UK workers*:

Germany is a founding member of the European Union and the Eurozone. In 2016, Germany recorded the highest trade surplus in the world worth $310 billion, making it the biggest capital exporter globally. Germany is rich in timber, lignite, potash and salt.

Germany With a GDP of $3.5 trillion, Germany is the largest economy in Europe and one of the largest in the world. Like other highly developed, service-oriented social market economies, Germany has one of the highest standards of living in the world.

Germany was an industrialised Country before, so there where a lot of good trained workes coming back from captivity looking for work. Right after the war Germany was a Kind of low-cost Country (low wages) and so they produced high Quality products and sold them very well.

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• GERMANY | 107 BILLIONAIRES.
• INDIA | 102 BILLIONAIRES.
• RUSSIA | 99 BILLIONAIRES.
• HONG KONG | 66 BILLIONAIRES *
• BRAZIL | 45 BILLIONAIRES.
• UNITED KINGDOM | 45 BILLIONAIRES.
• CANADA | 44 BILLIONAIRES.
• FRANCE | 39 BILLIONAIRES.

Nearly half of the world’s 2,095 billionaires for 2020 are citizens of the United States or China. The U.S. leads the pack with 614 billionaires—a record high and seven more than in 2019—worth a combined $2.9 trillion. The U.S. is home to the richest person in the world: Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, worth $113 billion.

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Jack Ma

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