English Today!? So What!?

در این قسمت، به سوال {چرا زبان انگلیسی؟} جواب میدیم. 
We will try to answer the question "Why English Today?" & "How long?"

1. feel left behind (exp): احساس عقب افتادن از بقیه
2. tangible (adj): قابل درک و حس
3. first-hand (adj): دست اول، بی واسطه
4. second-hand (adj): دست دوم
5. a pig in a poke (idiom): چیزی که ندیده و نسنجیده مورد قبول هست
6. That’s my stand (exp): That’s my idea
7. self-esteem (n): عزت نفس
8. bilingual & monolingual (n & adj): دو زبانه – تک زبانه
9. allocate (v): اختصاص دادن
10. approximately (adv): حدوداً
12. acquire (v): یاد گرفتن 
13. call it (exp): end or finish something 

Transcript
Hello everyone and welcome to the first episode of … 
EnglinGO, 
Such a beautiful name. So basically we're talking to and with the Englin-goers.
So what's the topic of the first episode?
You know, I’ve really tried to bring a topic which really interests everyone. So I thought that that's really common that people should and would ask them, okay, why? The question of why English, why not, for example, German, why not, why not France, or French? So the first question we're going to talk and cover is why English, that's very basic.
So especially why English today, you know, exactly.
Nowadays it's just more important than …
Yeah, so let's say that someone comes to you and asks you that … they don't know anything in English … I don't know anything in English and I want to learn English. Why should I learn English?
You know, there are lots of things to consider into your account but in my idea, the most important one is that, okay, nowadays, wherever you look, you will probably find people talking English. So basically speaking, generally speaking English nowadays has become a, let's say, universal language. Okay, everyone can speak language and everyone is trying to speak language. So that's the main reason, you know, not, not, you know, fall out of the loop, yeah, or something like that.
You mean so that you are not left behind, yeah. Okay, so I think what you're trying to say is that English is a global language. It's all the way over the world, yeah. Can you give us an example, I don't know, for example, country or numbers, how many people speak English?
I'm not quite sure, but recently I’ve read something that it said nowadays is that there are more than 1.5 billion people all over the world speaking the language which is English, and not just in the, let's say, America, okay, or the, let's say, the continent. It's just all over around the world. And what are we doing now? We’re speaking English … that's the statistic which is really shocking them at the same time, mesmerizing, you know.
And I think, for example, China and India … When you think about them that there are a lot of people in those countries. However, I think that, you know, I think I read it on a website or something that said English is the main language in those countries.
And that's really, you know, that doesn't make any sense. For example, imagine having 3 billion citizens and all of them, they don't try to speak their own mother tongue language and then they just switch to the English. So … 
Okay, another thing that I think would be noteworthy to add is, you know, related to the career, future career a person can have. So, you know, as you know, in many job opportunities, even in Iran, the ability to speak a language, or I don't know, to have a good knowledge of a language, is considered something that you can get extra money for that.
Exactly, that's true, yeah.
For example, we can say that there are, there are absolutely some, let's say, occupation that if you have this qualification, which is English, you will, you know, you will be just, win it, yeah. You will be just incomparable to your partners and colleagues. So, and imagining that, for example, some jobs are in some countri