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Complete PICLE corpus of essays by Polish advanced EFL students (330,000)

/^t/At present, according to statistics, English is spoken by over 775 million people around the world as either a native language or a second language. It is also the official language in 68 countries. So it is quite reasonable to talk about the "boom" of this language as being the standard of advertising, aviation, finance, business, computing, consumerism, multi-media, pop music, medicine, science and sport.