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by jcranmer
1808 days ago
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> Well, the good part is that more people speaks Chinese than English. Less people will suffer with language barriers to knowledge. That's actually not true. More people speak Mandarin as a first language than English (which is third, behind Spanish as well). However, far more people speak English as a second (or third) language than do as a first language, so that English is actually the most widely spoken language. |
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English is popular as second language just because english is at the present moment the language with more access to documentation and resources, so more people needed to learn it to defeat language barriers. If in the future the language with more resources became Mandarin, more people will learn it as a second language.