1. It is the only major language without an academy to guide it.
1.英语是唯一没有学术机构加以规正的大语种。
L’Académie française, based in Paris, is in charge of overseeing the French language. For Spanish there is the Real Academia Española. German has the Rat für deutsche Rechtschreibung. There is no equivalent to L’Académie for English. Of the 10 most-widely spoken languages in the world, only English has no academy guiding it.
法兰西文学院位于巴黎，负责审查法语。对于西班牙语，有西班牙皇家学院，德语有标准德语德语正字法协会。而英语则没有相应的文学院。世界十大使用最为广泛的口语中，唯有英语没有学术研究院引领。
2. More than 1 billion people are learning English as you read this.
