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When international companies and organizations developed, English was often chosen as a working language of European Central Bank, although the bank is in Germany. In Asia and the Pacific, nine out of ten international organizations work only in English.

English is important not because it has more first - language speakers than other languages (Chinese has more) but because it is used extremely widely. Will this situation continue?

VINEY, Brigit. Oxford Bookworms Factfiles: The History of the English Language: Level 4: 1400-Word Vocabulary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/07/the-argentinean-comic-strip-that-galvanized-a-generation. Acesso em 04 fev.2026.