Urdu, the lingua franca of Pakistan, is necessary but less familiar.

巴基斯坦的通用语乌尔都语不可或缺，但并不人熟知。

In our next lecture, I am going to talk about lingua franca and its functions.

下一讲，我将讲通用语及其功能。

English has emerged as a global lingua franca, essential for international business and communication.

英语已成全球通用语言, 对国际务和沟通至关重要。

Part of the explanation is that many people's second language is English, while many Britons continue to believe that, as native speakers of the lingua mundi, they do not need to bother with foreign languages.

部分原因是许多人的第外语就是英语，这也是大部分英国人始终坚信的事，而作lingua mundi语的人，他们着实无需外语而烦心。

Even in traditional offices, " the lingua franca of corporate America has gotten much more emotional and much more right-brained than it was 20 years ago, " said Harvard Business School professor Nancy Koehn.

哈佛学院教授南希·科恩说道，即使是在传统的办公室，“美国企业的通用语已变得比前更有感染力和更有创造性。”。

That is, how did English gain the present status of popularity? There are in fact a number of interlocking reasons for the popularity of English as a lingua franca.

也就是说，英语是如何达到现在的普及程度的？事实上，英语作一种通用语言得到普及，有许多相互关联的原因。

English, French, and Portuguese are very common lingua francas understood by a large amount of people where English is understood by thirteen percent of the population, French close behind at 11.5 percent, and Portuguese by 3%.

英语、法语和葡萄牙语这几种语言也是普遍通用的语言 ，很多人都能听懂，其中13%的人能听懂英语，法语紧随其后，有11.5%的人听得懂，葡萄牙语能被3%的人听懂。

He learned that I was studying Persian, and I said the grammar was star tlingly simple, because its use as a lingua franca over several centuries had shorn it of many of its complexities.

他得知我在学习波斯语，我说波斯语的语法非常简单，因几个世纪来，波斯语作一种通用语言进行使用使它摆脱了许多复杂性。

Any intelligent organism would at the very least need the ability to locate the position of objects in space. So the ideal interstellar lingua franca would be haptic.

任何智能生物最少都需要有知晓物体在空间中所在位置的能力。所最理想的星际沟通方式应该是触觉。

It has relatively few native speakers – estimates range from 2 million to 18 million – but has spread across the continent as a lingua franca.

它语的人相对较少——估计在200万到1800万之间——但它已经作一种通用语传遍了整个欧洲大陆。

If aid workers are lucky, they may find people who know Kanuri, a kind of lingua franca in Borno.

如果幸运的话，救援人员可能会找到懂卡努里语（博尔诺州的一种通用语言）的人。

So you're looking at a lingua franco of storytelling created by Hollywood for the last hundred years.

所你看到的是好莱坞在过去100里创造的一种讲故事的通用语言。

While English has emerged as a global lingua franca, there are also efforts to preserve linguistic diversity and revitalize endangered languages through digital technologies.

虽然英语已成全球通用语言，但也有人努力通过数字技术保护语言多样性并振兴濒危语言。

Although English is not the language with the largest number of native or first language speakers, it has really become a lingua franca.

虽然把英语作语或是第一语言的人不是最多的，但它确实成了一种通用语。

For example, when an Indian talks to a Singaporean using English, then English is the lingua franca.

例如，当一个印度人用英语和一个新加坡人谈话时，英语就是通用语。

For example, it became a lingua franca in India where a variety of indigenous languages made the use of any one of them as a whole country system problematic.

例如，因印度有多种土著语言，将任何一种语言作全国通用语，都会造成严重的问题，所英语成印度的通用语。

French was the lingua franca. France was in vogue.

法语是通用语。 法国很流行。

English has come to be the world's lingua franca.

英语已成全球通用语言。

So, by around 1550, there were hundreds of printed copies and people were very energetically beginning to translate it, not just into Latin, Because then the lingua franca was Latin, but quite early into modern languages.

所，到了1550左右， 已经有数百本印刷版， 人们开始非常积极地将其翻译成多种语言，而不仅仅限于拉丁文。 因当时通行的语言是拉丁文，但很早就被翻译成了现代语言。

While some in England spoke French and some spoke Latin (and a few spoke both), everyone, from the highest to the lowest, spoke English, and it gradually became the lingua franca of the nation once again.

虽然在英格兰有些人说法语， 有些人说拉丁语（少数人会同时说这两种语言）， 但每个人，从最高层到最低层， 都说英语，英语逐渐再次成这个国家的通用语。