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by shawabawa3 3682 days ago
> 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"

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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.