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What if 50% of the world badly needed a certain useful tool, but only 5% could have it?

Someone would find a way. For example, to solve the problem of talking, they gave us handsets for little money and charge us by the minute. But that only does part of it. What will we say to each other ?

The English language seems to be the most important communication tool for the international world. But now it must be a kind of English which can be learned quickly and used very easily – not like Standard English. The people who know a little are already using what they know. It works for them – a little. But… they often have families and jobs. They cannot spend enough time or enough money to learn all of English. And English speakers think these people will “never be good enough” in English. It is a problem. We think Globish is a solution.

Globish has a different name because it is a very different way to solve the problem of learning English. By the standards of the Council of Europe Framework of Reference for Languages (page 64): Globish speakers will use an amount of English that makes understanding between non-native speakers and native speakers. They will produce clear, detailed writing on a wide range of subjects and explain their thoughts, giving good and bad elements of various ideas.

This book is about Globish and to demonstrate its value, we’ll write this book for you in Globish.

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