I was about 10 years old when I started to learn English in school. Today Portuguese children initiate their English studies even sooner. This represents the worlwide importance of the language, and the trend is increasing. With the use of new technologies and its contents (such as blogs), people are able to communicate eachother and show samples of what they are good at. E.g: One of newest Portuguese singers has risen up to the Music world through her videos posted on Youtube. Her name is Ana Free. Offcourse, she could sing in a different language, but the public dissemination of her work would be also different.
There are 336 million native English speakers (approximately-according to Wikipedia),which gives it the 3rd position after Chinese and Spanish. What about the other English speakers, the non-native ones...How many are they?!
Paulo Rodrigues
United kingdom
The UK is situated north-west of the European continent between the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea. It has a total land area of 244,100 square kilometres, of which nearly 99% is land and the remainder inland water. From north to south it is about 1,000 kilometres long.
Personalities
Harol Pinter was an English dramatist, actor and theatre director among other things. He won the Nobel Prize of Literature in 2005. He died on last 24th December victim of cancer. Here´s a representative quote of him written in 1958: "There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and faIse. I believe that these assertions still make sense and do still apply to the exploration of reality through art. So as a writer I stand by them but as a citizen I cannot. As a citizen I must ask: What is true? What is false?
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