Has English become the world language because the British used to be the most powerful nation or because the USA is the...

What about Japanese people and chinese language?
Do they study it?
Is it part of School programs?

lingua franca's are determined by who the dominant culture, invention hub and economic powerhouse of that current century is.
Today its USA

Probably both. English colonialism spread it, then American influence after / through WW2.
It's a good language. Easy to learn, clear, no fussy pronoun rules. Worst thing might be how some words do not sound at all like how they're written (Silent letters and stuff) but some flaws are to be expected.
Still better than french in that regard.

Might be because English is part of a radically different language family and because colonialism never really affected Japan as much. English is very easy to learn from a germanic language, decently easy from a romanic language, but I can imagine that China or Japan would have trouble.

USA
Before it was French.

we are taught American English here so for Turkey i will say USA.

really? I was taught british english from elementary and high school.
Even had a couple of english teachers at my high school, they would dock points on exams whenever we wrote in american english and write notes saying ''learn how to write english correctly'' and shit

Both. Started and spread by us and cemented and further spread by the yanks

German used to be the language of science until the second world war

nobody apart from anglos really spoke english before 45, it's almost 100% due to the US

USA, English was basically irrelevant before that.

English is facing a possible decline though.

With the UK leaving the EU, the EU will probably put less of a priority on English.

USA's military and political projection overseas hasn't exactly been the most successful.

Then there are changing demographics in the USA.

Lack of creativity in Hollywood may also set things back.

India English may be fairly strong for a while.

>USA, English was basically irrelevant before that.

So the British Empire didn't matter?

Not at all.

Ah yes, the British Empire never existed.

Their diplomats had to speak French like everyone else's.

Their language was not very important in Europe before the 20th century, no.

Because UK used to rule 1/3 of the world that needed a European language. America relevance only goes down to "bomb other countries" not to colonize them.

Both. British colonialism spread it to all corners of the world, and the artificial states created which usually contained multiple ethnic groups with different languages meant that English was used so everyone within them could communicate with one another, even after the decolonisation process. E.g India, Singapore, Malaysia, Nigeria, ect ect. America is responsible for it being widely spoken pretty much everywhere outside of ex-empire countries

>With the UK leaving the EU, the EU will probably put less of a priority on English.
Well it's not like the UK suddenly stops existing. They also had very little to do with the languages' popularity these days anyways.
>USA's military and political projection overseas hasn't exactly been the most successful.
Your current prsident might be an incompetent asswipe, but he's the talk of the world. News center more on him than local problems.
The USA might not be looked up to the same way you were when you freed Europe, but you're still very much allies to us, and most people just want you to return to sanity - or at least dial the insanity back a bit.

>It's all because of the US

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only in germany

English is a language of peace you anti-angloite