English

“Hello, Where is it?” may have been one common sentence you can hear in every country.
You can hear such simple words coming out fluently from the mouths of tourists who are sightseeing. This one simple language is clearly shown as English. It goes to show that the tourists from different countries know the basic language – English.

In the 21st century, English has become a well known language used by 750 million foreign who study it as foreign language. In addition, between 300 and 500 million more people, they study it as second language. It totals up to about 1 billion English speaking people in a world.

Through English language, it allows people of different jobs – merchants to trade, businessmen to sell/buy, overseas students studying, politicians to discuss, etc.

Taken from wiki, English being as a global language, English is so widely spoken, it has often been referred to as a "world language", the lingua franca of the modern era, and while it is not an official language in most countries, it is currently the language most often taught as a foreign language.

English is an official language of the United Nations and many other international organizations, including the International Olympic Committee. In 2008, Olympics was hosted by Beijing. It had been said in article that 5.5 millions of Chinese residents were taught some basic sentences for the purpose of welcoming every tourist who has come to watch the Olympics. Among them, there is one common thing which is the English language to communicate with each other, be it different races, religions, different languages.

Books, magazines, and newspapers written in English are available in many countries around the world, and even English is the most commonly used language in the Science magazines.

Being a hearing impaired person since small, English has been my first learning language for me. There is no Chinese mother tongue for me as I may have problem pronouncing them. I should consider myself fortunate in 21st century. Learning English has been the right path for me even though I should learn my mother tongue. Learning two languages can be difficult for HI person.
English, acting as my one way ticket of communicating with different people, I get to interact with people in modern time and even with different people from countries speaking English words.