Why English has become a França's Lingua English is also distributed through its intensive study in schools for children and in educational institutions for adult learners. According to the latest data, the number of those who study this language is three times higher than the number of people who use it as a native language. There is no such correlation in any other language of the world. English is spoken by over 400,000,000 people, for whom it is the mother tongue. English vocabulary is the richest and has about 1,000,000 words, of which 500,000 words refer to terminology. Three eighth of all correspondence today is conducted in English. English is the main language of the Internet and information technologies, as well as the language of navigation and aviation. More than half of the technical and scientific publications are published in English. 80% of all world information is stored in English. The five largest radio and television companies broadcast in English "
