Liam speaking English

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This video was recorded by Daniel Bogre Udell in Edinburgh, Scotland where he and Liam met. English is spoken by over 800 million people, primarily in the United Kingdom and its former colonies, and as a foreign language by people around the world. It is one of the world's most internationally recognized languages, being an official language of the United Nations, as well as the European, African, and South American Unions. A literary language since the sixteenth century when it emerged in its modern form, English is one of the most widely used languages in popular media today. It is also woven into the syntax of many programming languages around the world.

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