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So the US has the largest population of English speakers. Care to guess which is #2?
No fair peeking at Google until after you make an educated guess. Be honest. This will be fun.
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Australia | |
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Germany | |
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India | |
5 (83%) |
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Phillipines | |
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PDJane
(10,103 posts)Xipe Totec
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(10,103 posts)Donald Ian Rankin
(13,598 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,888 posts)Donald Ian Rankin
(13,598 posts)It was obviously going to be one of the two - 10% of the population of either is probably more than the population of any first-language-English state, although I'd have to check that to be certain.
But there are about equal numbers of people in each, and I'm kind of surprised that a higher proportion of Indians than Chinese speak English. Possibly my mental image of China is based too much on the cities and not enough on the rural areas.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)... who proudly announce that their own, sub-continental English IS BBC English.
Funny show.
-Laelth
treestar
(82,383 posts)especially the number of countries with numbers higher than the UK
treestar
(82,383 posts)of people in a given country who speak English. In some countries with other languages for a main language, still more than half the people speak English.