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Цитата: "Radley" от
You don't have to be perfect in your English to be paid for using it, either.

Of course, I don't.

Truth to tell, all of us are not really perfect even in Russian. But anyone, that I know of, can freely either breath or copulate, the same with salary... 

You don't have to be perfect in your English to be paid for using it, either.

Цитата: "Radley" от
As soon as you can put a few English words together, they will deliver compliments like 'oh your English is so very good, where'd you learn it?'. It's all bollocks.

You're almost right. Nevertheless, I use it in my work every single day. And I'm paid

Цитата: "Jumis" от
ones from the United States had flattered on my good command of AE

As soon as you can put a few English words together, they will deliver compliments like 'oh your English is so very good, where'd you learn it?'. It's all bollocks.

Цитата: "Rezia" от
But when it comes to real life people use English more often if they have to find some language-mediator.

Once again, I have just made sure THEY HAVE (being in China). I'll push my son to learn Chinese, though!

BTW, there's a funny thing. My "good American speech" in China (i.e. my own off-camera voice) sounded very close to Nizhegorodish in fact. But in recent times, ones from the United States had flattered on my good command of AE. In China, very likely, I left any attempt to care about as the same did my Chinese interlocutors. In that way, we created some new kind of "English with many non-English sounds, with foreign stress, foreign choice and arrangements of words, and intonation". In Chinese English, they omit any "inconvenient" sound. In two days, I got used to it.

So, I beg your pardon for this post, poor and inadequate.

This fact doesnt change the global character of English as it is. It just shows that these other influential states don't want their language to be considered as some kind of the second to English. And it's absolutely correct. But when it comes to real life people (including politians ) use English more often if they have to find some language-mediator ( I'm not sure of the term, though). That's what I've presumed.

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Цитата: ArtAllm
In this regard English is like other "Global Languages".

What do you mean? What "other"?! There's no other one besides English. Even Spanish though being rather wide-spead and influential in the USA it cannot be a rival to English. What are you talking about?

According to UNO, Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish are global languages.

Цитата: ArtAllm
In this regard English is like other "Global Languages".

What do you mean? What "other"?! There's no other one besides English. Even Spanish though being rather wide-spead and influential in the USA it cannot be a rival to English. What are you talking about?

Цитата: ArtAllm
Even Russian language has many regional varieties. If you read the Russian papers printed in Germany, you will know what I am talking about.

I've never had a chance. Maybe you could procure any extracts?

Цитата: rezia
Concerning the global character of the English language which has been accepted as a decided thing by now. I've come across quite an interesting suggestion recently. The idea is that soon there'll be a family of English languages:
British English
American English
Nigerian English
Indian English
Singaporean English
etc.

Well, there are some regional peculiarities in different varieties of English, like regional vocabulary and different spelling in AE, but there are no big differences in written English, be it BE, AE or other varieties of English.

In this regard English is like other "Global Languages".

Spanish has also many regional varieties - though they have such an authority in Spain, like "Instituto Servantes".

Even Russian language has many regional varieties. If you read the Russian papers printed in Germany, you will know what I am talking about.

Oh, thanks a lot.  Sometimes I realize that's it's very useful to read everything on the forum.
So, it's tok-pisin. But no Shakespeare or Bible on the link. Gonna look for some.