The world's English craze - Jay Walker
Mar 08, 2026•6 min
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Jay Walker explains why two billion people around the world are trying to learn English. He shares photos and spine-tingling audio of Chinese students rehearsing English -- "the world's second language" -- by the thousands.
Talk by Jay Walker.
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