答案:Several hundred years ago, people had an ulterior notion that different languages indicated different social status. As King Charles V of Spain put it, “I speak Spanish to God, Latin to women, French to men and German to my horse.”Today, the majority of people focus their attention on mastering one particular language, the English language.Timemagazine recently suggested that by the turn of the millennium, English would be the Lingua Franca for one quarter of the world’s population. Today sixty percent of the world’s television and radio broadcasts are addressed in English. Seventy percent of the world’s mails are addressed in English. And it is the language of choice for almost every byte of computer data sent across the globe.