Yes. It doubles Chinese or Spanish. But again, we are in 2016.
As a civilization we have a global communication system. But we can not understand each other.
We are 7 billion people. 200 million speak english as a secondary language and 300/400 million as main language. With this numbers, don't you think that it will be better to find a language that is fine for everybody? Or when someone wants get into the international arena he/she must to learn English which will take years?
> 200 million speak english as a secondary language
Where did you get that number? The sources I've seen are 1+ billion
I'm not saying everyone should speak english. But it seems if things carry on the way they are, everyone will speak english, even if it isn't the best "choice"
From Wikipedia.
Turns out that Spanish wikipedia and English wikipedia shows quite different numbers. So now I'm confused.
In this website http://www.ethnologue.com/language/eng they say that total english users are 942,533,930.
We are 7 billion people. 200 million speak english as a secondary language and 300/400 million as main language. With this numbers, don't you think that it will be better to find a language that is fine for everybody? Or when someone wants get into the international arena he/she must to learn English which will take years?