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Should English be the world's lingua franca? The world definitely needs a standard language and "many people feel that the only realistic chance of breaking the foreign-language barrier is to use a natural language as a world lingua franca"1. In history there have been precedents, like Latin as a medium of education from the Roman times to the Dark Ages and French for International diplomacy from the 17th Century to the 20th Century. In my opinion a world language should be a language that everyone understands, a standard with which to communicate between different nations. This hypothetical lingua franca should not replace the nation's mother tongue, and therefore deprive people of their national identity, but offer valid support for international communications. English may not be the world's most widely spoken native language, as Chinese, with more than one billion mother tongue speakers, doubles the number of English mother tongues....

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