Global Language | Belle Ho | TEDxYouth@STC

Belle examines how multilingualism is transforming communication, and looks at how the idea of a lingua franca is bringing communities together. Belle is an an articulate Year 9 student, who shared her ideas regarding: "Multilingualism and Lingua Franca". She herself uses her experience as a tri-lingual student and cosmopolitan family background, to explore the advantages that multilingualism gives in terms of education and employment. Belle also investigates modern language trends, as English, and more recently Chinese language predominates over the world, and poses some interesting questions regarding the viability of any future possible unified language across the world. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@lifenature5463]

My two cents from Italy: English is already a lingua franca, it is widely spoken worldwide and spoken by many non native speakers and because of the strong economics of U.S.A., U.K., Australia, New Zeland and more countries, the popularity of English as a global language is only destined to grow.

[@tasasalih7963]

OMG she's really cute~.. many thanks to you Belle Ho that was definitely useful

[@yoyowhat8436]

Tsabeeh Abogroun ikr

[@nizzotheartist]

This is hot rocks . There was a time when ever one spoke the same . It was called the Tower of Babel

[@amolsheshbhare5069]

I am Indian great presentation of important of English

[@muhammadisaac07]

From Bangladesh 🇧🇩

[@ಠಿ_ಠಿ-ಝ2ರ]

I'm also from India ❤️

[@q.e.d.4410]

If these people are really interested about to create a global "lingua franca" the English is a good option, but it isn't the best option. It looks that they are more interested to promove the English language imperialism (and, in our age, XXI century, the chinese language imperialism) as lingua franca and not to promove a language easy to learn for all people. There're a lot of useful conlangs (artificial languages): Esperanto, ido, toki pona ... Stateless languages ​​that we can used to communicate each others and, same time, protect the minorities languages.

[@aleksandraholanda]

I love her. I'm just like this giving lectures lol.

[@Dante...1]

We use English In places like other countries

[@tumitaa_konsole]

I wish Lidepla caught more attention…

[@joanjolliffe]

I go to this school :D

[@thato596]

chinese ? But china has a lot of indigenous languages

[@sunset4487]

her english is not quite good, she is nervous,

[@muhammadisaac07]

But she has Managed it really well 😍

[@budoor-km7jk]

China no way😂😂😂