????? ??? What is English? Is it a subject? Is it letters and words in a book? Is it your results in exams? I AM GOING TO DIE!!! AHHH!!! Is it noise spoken by people from other countries? %&*#$@&^%*+)!$^* YES! I AGREE! Or is it a way for people all over the world to communicate with one another? Hong Kong is a small place… And the world is big… But English has made it much smaller. With English, you have the whole world in your hands… You don’t believe I don’t me? believe you! Here are some facts. English is spoken in 115 countries around the world on a regular basis. There are currently 1,000,000,000 people studying and speaking English. 89% of all schoolchildren in Europe study and use English. 80% of the world’s electronically stored data is in English.