Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English - Miscellaneous, grade: 1, language: English, abstract: In today's globalised world language knowledge becomes more and more important for good and skilled communication. Especially the knowledge of one language - the world language English - is necessary to be competitive and able to communicate worldwide. The status of English as a world language is obviously due to its large amount of native speakers all over the world, but also its simplicity in grammar, structure and vocabulary makes it to one of the most important languages in the...