Fact of the Day: 29/09/2021
If you’re reading this post, you speak English. But how many people in the world do so as well?
Babbel says that there are roughly 1.35 billion English speakers around the world, though only 360 million are native speakers (the rest learn it as another language). The language that is most spoken as a native language is actually Mandarin Chinese, which has an estimated 1.1 billion total speakers worldwide (according to Statista).
Reference(s):
- https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/how-many-people-speak-english-and-where-is-it-spoken
- https://www.statista.com/statistics/266808/the-most-spoken-languages-worldwide/
Fact Author: Ace
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