The English as first foreign language initiative is a worldwide citizen initiative meant to promote the use of the English language as first foreign language in all the countries around the world.

The motives for this initiative are several. First, as English has become the global language, more and more people have been using it, so as, today, most of the global scientific publications, business knowledge, business exchanges, communications and global institutions are in English. However the use of the English language has remained limited to the developed world. Numerous third world countries are today isolated from the rest of the world because they don’t speak English.

The use of the English language in these countries would open for them the possibility to :