English influences on other languages

As a global language, English has naturally influenced several other languages as an imperialistic fenomenon (overtaking languages), as loanwords (gairaigo, for instance) or just as the new mania (English as the new trend). These are some websites which go over the results of the influences of the English language:

Spanglish: Spanish
Spanglish: English's Assault on Spanish
Spanglish, the growing use of English in the everyday speech and writing of Spanish-speaking people. Purists may be alarmed, but the fact is that Spanish is changing, as do all living languages.

Diccionario de Spanglish
An online Spanglish dictionary with translations from Spanglish to Spanish and English.

Hinglish: Indian English
It's Hinglish, innit?Hinglish - a hybrid of English and south Asian languages, used both in Asia and the UK - now has its own dictionary

Chinglish: Chinese
Chinglish! Hilarious examples of signs lost in translation
With so many English-speaking tourists and businessmen now travelling to China, the Chinese are having to translate their signs to help visitors. Sometimes, though, the message gets lost, and the results can be amusing, and often utterly baffling.

The Chinglish Collection
One of the best things about living in China is that you are exposed everyday to a bombardment of assaults on the English language known by expats as "Chinglish.

A Sampling of Chinglish
For the last two years, the Shanghai Commission for the Management of Language Use has been trying to clean up English-language signs and menus to rid them of their malapropisms.

Japlish: Japanese
Japakness Engrish
It has got to be seen to be believed - the Engrish being masqueraded as real English here in Japan. It can be seen on signs, people's jackets, t-shirts and shopping bags, in menus and on TV.

Engrish.com and Engrish and funny typos
Two websites which collect several pictures of Engrish.

English issues in Brazil:

Revista Veja A prisão da língua
An article in the Brazilian Magazine Veja about the unsuccessful project of Law proposed by Aldo Rebelo which planned to banish foreign words from Brazilian Portuguese.

Portuguese- English Crosslinguistic influences
An academic article devoted to common idiosyncracies of Portuguese and English.

Gerúndio - Gerundismo - Uma Análise Linguística
A webpage about the polemic use of the present continuous (gerúndio) in Brazilian Portuguese.

English Teaching – Issues

Because English has become one of the most popular languages in the world, teaching approaches and methodologies have been divided in ESL and EFL education as you can see in the following websites:

ESL and EFL Education
What are the differences between EFL and ESL?

English as Second Language
A guide for those who are interested in ESL.

...and a little bit of humor!

We are sinking!
An advertisement for a language school showing the importance of learning English.

Do you speak English?
From time to time overseas we always tend to see American tourists not bothering to learn the countries' language but instead being frustrated with locals not being able to speak English. But even when they can speak English they still can't understand them because of their accents