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title: "Global spread of English threatens US, UK"
url: https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/02/22/global-spread-of-english-threatens-us-uk/
description: "The dominance of English as the world’s top language — until recently an advantage to both Britain and the United States — is now beginning to undermine the."
published: 2006-02-22
updated: 2006-02-22
---

# Global spread of English threatens US, UK

Published 2006-02-22

February 22, 2006 · [Outsourcing](https://campbell-online.com/blog/category/outsourcing/) · [Knowledge work](https://campbell-online.com/blog/category/knowledge-work/)

> The dominance of English as the world’s top language — until recently an advantage to both Britain and the United States — is now beginning to undermine the competitiveness of both nations, according to a major research report.
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> The report commissioned by the British Council says monolingual English graduates “face a bleak economic future” as multilingual competitors flood into the workforce from all corners of the globe.
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> A massive increase in the number of people learning English is under way and likely to peak at around 2 billion in the next decade, according to the report entitled “English Next.”
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> More than half of all primary school children in China now learn English and the number of English speakers in India and China — 500 million — now exceeds the total number of mother-tongue English speakers elsewhere in the world.

[Global spread of English threatens US, UK: study - Reuters via Yahoo! News](http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060221/us_nm/economy_english_dc)

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