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Globalisation of the English language
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the English language, all of us he known and use
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it every day.
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But where exactly did it come from?
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On what impact has it had on other nations?
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Well, this is what we'll be exploring today.
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First, I wish to define a few key concepts in
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which we use throughout our presentation, the first being diffusion
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in which means to transfer or dispersal of cultural elements
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from one group of people to another.
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The next adoption, which is the acceptance of cultural elements
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and groups of people to another on the last adaption,
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which is the adjustment in response to a changed environment.
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Just a quick recap of the English language is the
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official language of around 53 nations and is spoken by
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around 20% of the world's population, or around 1.5 billion
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people. It is also the most common second language I
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don't know.
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Three English language originated from the Anglo freeze and die
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elects brought to Britain in the mid 5th and 7th
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centuries by Anglo Saxon migrants from what is now known
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as Germany, southern Denmark and the Netherlands.
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Around 20% of the world's population is now English speaking.
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So how do we come from this one group in
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Britain? Well, most of this could be attributed to English
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colonization. English colonization began in the 16th century, with Jamestown,
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Virginia, on spread throughout the world in the following years.
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Yeah, this map shows the English colonies in pink.
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In 1914 you can see that Australia and New Zealand
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are both English colonies.
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It has a major impact on the languages in which
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all colonies now speak advancements in transport and telecommunications.
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When the British first colonized Jamestown, Virginia, they used it
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to travel to seize and spread the English language.
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Advancements in these vessels allowed the English colonies to travel
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further and more efficient.
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Well, recently, transport such as airplanes and modernize ships have
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been used by non English speakers, traveled to English speaking
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countries and learn the length.
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Telecommunications such as the Internet and phones have also greatly
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contributed to the generation and dispersion of the English language
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things. Language has dominated the Internet.
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This graph shows that the most use language on the
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Internet in 2020 is English was over 25%.
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Can the role played by MNCs, multinational corporations and transnational
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institutions have spread across the world, since most of these
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air English speaking based while they spread globally, they also
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spread the English language to new nations is almost a
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necessity for people speak English if they want to be
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in the global work is many international companies expect their
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employees to speak fluent English.
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This is because it is the global language business.
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Most economic trading happens in English, as it is the
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most widely spoken language.
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Reynolds Samsung Microsoft in Beijing has English as their official
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corporate language.
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The rock the role played Yeah, how very accessible to
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learn with the help of media and at such as
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Jiro Lingo.
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Do Lingo teaches a wide variety of languages, but its
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most popular for teaching English is the most studied language
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around the world, with 53% of old uses studying English.
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This Match books shows the most popular language studied.
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Onge illegal in each country.
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English is the most popular language out of all the
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countries. It is shown a screen.
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Second, most common language learned it's French, which is shown
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it's blue and the third in Spanish, which is yellow.
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This math is similar but shows the percentage of dual
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lingo. Users learning English in each country 70% 75% off
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the use in Russia and the Middle East are learning
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English. Yeah, okay.
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Australia is one of the English colonized nations occurring in
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17 88 when the British fleet tres came that declared
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the land as tear analogous.
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This means, they declared that there are no residents off
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the land.
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This was detrimental to the aboriginal people as there were
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over 750,000 Aboriginals inhabiting the land with over 250 different
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languages. After colonization, the English took over, starting their own
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systems and taking complete control over the nation.
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The aboriginal people were completely disregarded in this situation.
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The use of aboriginal languages was banned in certain areas
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until the 19 seventies, whilst the stolen generation also occurred,
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which forbid parents of the teach their Children their language.
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The stolen generation occurred in 1910 to 1970 in which
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aboriginal Children removed from their homes and placing camps run
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by English people to train them to be servants of
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the British.
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Because of this, the Children were no longer exposed to
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the aboriginal languages were first forced to learn English to
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serve the British.
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By this time, the whole country was speaking English, so
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for ever since to survive, English became necessary to receive
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any help that they needed.
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Because of this, the 250 languages slowly became a 60
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in which is now healthy.
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Today think although other languages are still used today, they're
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slowly becoming extinct as people are not teaching a language.
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Allowing the language is much due to English being more
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practical in our nation.
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There are only 3.3% of the average Australian population, in
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which aboriginal on only 10% of this 3.3% able to
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speak the indigenous languages with less people knowing the language
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there also lets people to teach the language, causing further
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extension. New Zealand was also colonized by the British in
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17 69 although the process and treatment was different.
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When the British took over, they created the Rotondi Treaty.
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This meant that the British had to accept that marry
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tribes had the right to organize themselves and protect their
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way of life.
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It required the government to act recently and in good
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faith towards the marry people.
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It made the government responsible for helping to address grievances
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and establish equality between the principal and that all media
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owners are equal under the law.
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This is different to Australia as the indigenous people were
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neglected and disrespected in our situation.
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The respect of this has greatly impacted the preservation of
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the marry language.
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This can also be seen through the statistics that 4.1%
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of the population of New Zealand could hold a full
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conversation in marry.
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This is although this is still not great.
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It is a lot higher than Australia.
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This can also be seen through the use of language
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in their lives.
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Most street science will have both languages There also TV
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channels in which you're all in Maori and to have
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certain jobs in sectors like the government.
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You're you're expected to speak certain phrases in Maori when
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making a comparison between the two nations, although there are
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some difference since both were colonized by the British and
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have seen a large reduction in the usage of knowledge
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of the native language.
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Although the respect and treatment of the marries in New
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Zealand allowed for the language to be preserved somewhat in
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the future, is predicted that every third person on the
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planet was speaking by 2050 around half the world's population,
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so you have to speak English.
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This rise in English speakers could occur because more and
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more people see it valuable to learn English as a
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second language English, they can only speak a couple of
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words. According to Cambridge University in China, after 350 million
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peoples have at least some knowledge of English on up
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to 100 million people in India due to increased travel
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and migration, there could be more influence from other nations
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in the English language over the years, even could alter
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how some countries speak English.
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This has already happened in most nations.
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They have their own variety of words and their own
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ways of speaking them, for example, the main English speaking
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countries Australia, America, England and Canada or have very different
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ways of speaking different words.
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They used to describe different things, and they all have
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specific specific accent in the future.
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These different ways of speaking will enhance and become more
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unique. But this also means that part of the English
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language would be lost and forgotten.
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This is because they will become outdated and new words
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will be will be created to replace him in the
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future. Native what native languages will disappear due to the
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rise off the English language implant packs and implications as
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seen in the case studies, the English colonization around the
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world has resulted in the English language taking over First
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Nation languages.
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This has had a large impact on the preservation of
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languages throughout the world.
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On a local level for Australia, this is highly impacted
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the preservation of many indigenous languages.
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The elders who know the language completely are struggling to
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teach the language before they passed away on much of
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the language could be lost due to to the to
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the stolen generation and the lack of time to treat
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teach their Children the language before passing.
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This means that the languages are dying out and there
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are no longer than 250 different languages in which we
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started with on a national level.
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The overall languages left around 60 languages left in the
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nation, meaning that much of their stories in history I
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lost you to the language barrier.
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Just the English colonization and the role of the government
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in the past internationally.
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This has become much of an issue due to English
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becoming one of the most common languages in the world,
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and therefore the loss of first nation languages will continue
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if the work is not completed to restore each language
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overall, the spread of the English language has negatively impacted
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the president raging off first nationwide through colonization, the spread
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of MNCs and the increase in technology native languages have
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vanished. English language if diffused through the message of colonization,
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I was forcefully adopted.
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The language is further adapted by our nation over time
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by introducing introducing slang in over 400 indigenous words such
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as didgeridoo.
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Thank you for listening to our presentation.
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