Hi James, I don’t want to talk about how English is the first language in the world, but it happened now and it’s number one, and you can communicate foreign people everywhere, I have been spoke with people from China and Brazil, everywhere with just English language.
it doesn’t mean you don’t need to study another languages, but it can help us to communicate very fast with many people from everywhere easily.
I have been teaching myself Russian, English is helping me to meet Russian people and study with them