東洋学園大学 Interest-based English - Travel: Peace Boat and Global English Special Presentation

Today Takahashi Maho and Chris Massey from Peace Boat gave a special presentation in the Travel English class. The topic was Global English. We learned some interesting things including:

• There are about 2,000,000,000 English speakers in the world
• There are only about 400,000,000 native speakers of English in the world
• Only about 10% of all the English spoken in the world is between native speakers
• There is no "correct" English

We learned that the following sentences were correct in some countries:

• I went play in the park. (Hawaiian English)
  
• I am understanding it. (Indian English)
  
• Him will do it. (Jamaican English)
• Yous are amazing! (American English)
  
• This book you want or not? (Singaporean English)

The lessons we learned were:

• There is no correct English
  
• We should be proud of our accent
• Global English belongs to everyone