... through theironly common language, English, and decided to bring up theirchild with English as the primary language of the home. So here isa baby learning English as a foreign language as its ... language can betraced through the successful expeditions of its soldier/sailorspeakers. And English, as we shall see in chapter 2, has been noexception.9 ENGLISH AS A GLOBAL LANGUAGEBut international ... treatment in the companion volume to this one, Language death(Crystal 2000).14 English as a global language Second edition DAVID CRYSTALWhy a global language?their attitudes towards other languages....