World Englishes

 https://www.thoughtco.com/world-englishes-1692509

This is an excellent way to find out the concrete definition of "world Englishes", it also contains a list of countries that speak English, and for those who are outdated of the topic, explain a little of the history of English

This week's theme is “world Englishes” but before I start you all have to know that this is a term for varieties of English and not another language.

English has become a global language for things such as colonialism and migration, nowadays the number of English speakers is increasing, and because of that, all countries are getting their own accent.
 The theme Englishes it´s giving different names to things that are visually the same, for example:

But the differences are not only between the American English and the British, because there are still more different English like for example Indian and Australian.

Surprisingly, this subject has a history behind it because in 1992 a man decided to divide the English into 3 categories; the first category being the inner circle which corresponds to the languages ​​that use English as their mother tongue or their primary language, the second group is the outer circle that corresponds to countries that use English as an official language in education and work, last but not least we have the expending circle, this being the largest group and where the English language is just a foreign language.



https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XS25RQLSTvCmTpWd1t54-PfOSIP7vi7v/view?usp=sharing   https://youtu.be/YD448iQQqmA



Leonardo Nascimento 



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