English is the most popular international language. It originated in England, but soon spread to other countries. Today, the countries in which English is spoken can be 1 into three groups. The first group is 2 those countries where English is the primary language. These are countries like England, Canada, the United States, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. There are more than 380 million native speakers of English in these countries 3 . There is a second group of countries that have their own 4 of English. India, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Kenya are examples of this group. Countries in the third group are China, Russia, Japan, Korea, Brazil, Indonesia, and many Western European countries. Some people calculate the number of speakers in this group to be 5 one billion, and the number is growing everyday.