1.   Communicating through E-mail and dipping into the World Wide Web are new incentives to learn a foreign language, even though English is the default language of the Internet.

2.   Eckersley, a British man who was born in Malaysia and speaks several languages, said English had practically become the default language of business.

3.   It is wholly unfair, but during the Nineties English quite became the default language for the world economy.

4.   Third, there is the emergence of English as the default language of the world.