billion people. Unlike many other countries, our people speak a lot of languages. So we use English, which we got from British rulers hundreds of years ago. Of course, we have our own way of using English.
S2:
Well, I live on a huge green island in western Europe. Hundreds of years ago, my people spoke a very different language from English. Then the British rulers came. Now the old language is spoken in only a few villages in the western part of my country.
S3:
My country has more than 7,000 islands. Some of them are very large but most of them are quite small. Hundreds of years ago, the Spanish rulers chnged the way we live. Much later, the American rulers taught their own kind of English in our school. Nowdays, we speak a kind of English that borrows words from American English but is mostly our wewn.
S4:
My country is very small. In fact, it's really a city. It is in southeast Asia and is very rich. People come from all over Asia to do business here. Today, you can hear our kind of English spoken everywhere in the city and on many ships that come here. |