<p>Before I moved to USA, I had already come in contact with the English language. I had taken English classes in school, I had heard it in the radio, and it was in the movies. The American culture had expanded beyond its borders, but it wasn't the USA that started the globalization of the English language. In this episode I talk about how English became the lingua franca, a global language. </p>

Before I moved to USA, I had already come in contact with the English language. I had taken English classes in school, I had heard it in the radio, and it was in the movies. The American culture had expanded beyond its borders, but it wasn't the USA that started the globalization of the English language. In this episode I talk about how English became the lingua franca, a global language.

<p>Before I moved to USA, I had already come in contact with the English language. I had taken English classes in school, I had heard it in the radio, and it was in the movies. The American culture had expanded beyond its borders, but it wasn't the USA that started the globalization of the English language. In this episode I talk about how English became the lingua franca, a global language.&nbsp;</p>

How English became a globalized language

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