Domestic and international communication has expanded across the globe. This is the reason why there is a need for a global language like English which has become the lingua franca in major parts of the world. English is one of the most dominating languages in the world. It has an impact on every field of work. Although with the positive outcomes the negatives outweigh them to some degree as it means that many languages will perish out as a result. A global language is one that is spoken and understood at an international level by a wide variety of people. A global language is learned by several people as a second language. English is known to be the global language in that context. There are arguments that languages have a strong link between dominance and cultural power. The main factor that the languages exist is because of a powerful power base. The English language itself was derived from languages such as German and Latin and other European languages. Linguists argue whether the simplicity of the English language is the main reason for it becoming a global language. Generally difficulty level varies for everyone and there are different factors involved when a person starts learning a language. While learning another language one can observe that some languages are more difficult than others. Some languages have many similarities in pronunciation and words. For example Greek has similarities with Italian. Then there are languages having rough pronunciation or spelling and are dissimilar to any other language such as German. English is a very effective language and that is proved by the many native and foreign speakers worldwide. Statistics show nearly a quarter of the world is already fluent or content in English. Though the number of native Mandarin speakers is greater it is still not a global language because of its complicated letter system and grammar. Thus for a language to become a global language it has little to do with the number of native speakers. English helps to express various meanings. It has a lot of words with different meanings and different types of syntax which help the speaker to express with great accuracy. Another factor that makes English efficient is its compact letter system. It is unlike Mandarin with a ten thousand letter writing system which proves to be very difficult for people. Moreover the English language is very phonetic rather than character based. Hence it can help to describe the actual sounds of words or phrases. A poor feature of the English language is that there could be words with similar sounds but with different meaning. This can confuse non native speakers. Another difficulty in English is different regions of native English speakers have their accents which makes an outsider or a beginner learner of the language to not understand them clearly. Foreign speakers also have their specific accents. Since English is so widely spoken in the world many have taken up English as their second language. English has allowed a common communication means between people of different backgrounds. Hence English has helped to diminish certain cultural barriers between nations. However there are still cultural differences between countries and nations. In India which has thousands of local languages English is used as the official language as a smooth communication mean.