09 March 2012 / by Radmila Gurkova

Friday Fun: The History of English #10

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70KHDbLmr_I

The history of the English language series concludes with this final video that shows how English has now spread around the world and is spoken by over 1.5 billion people. It's interesting to note that only 1/4 of these people are native English speakers. So there's no reason to not learn English!

Have a look at some of the other posts on this blog for activities, videos and quizzes to help you learn better English.

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