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English is the global language for international business. English is the fastest-spreading language in human history, spoken usefully by some 1.75 billion people—that’s one in every four of us. In a 2012 HBR article, Tsedal Neeley said, “Ready or not, English is now the global language of business. More and more multinational companies are mandating English as the common corporate language in an attempt to facilitate communication and performance across geographically diverse functions and business endeavors.”

I have spent the past 13 years in the language testing industry.  With the merger of webCAPE and TrueNorth, I'm even more excited about the future of language testing and development. The Emmersion team has impressive resources that will advance the industry of language learning to new levels. Rather than write a soliloquy of my journey that would mostly serve myself; I thought, instead, I would write a post that hopefully has some utility for those that might read it.