International English

Working With Statistics

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The position of English in the world today

Many humans on earth speaks English, but 20% of the world's population has Chinese as their native language. Although Chinese is the language with most native speakers, English truly comes out best when it comes to peoples second language (showed by table 1). Since there are more people speaking English as their second language, fewer speaks Chinese. This makes English the Lingua Franca; wich means a language used by two different native speakers to communicate. As it shows on table 2, English is the most used language in articles around the world, because it reaches out to more people. Almost all transport and communication between different countries is in English.