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That list comes with a fair warning about its reliability at the top though¹. English is indisputably the largest second language (L2) spoken in the world, and
by Freak_NL 9y ago
That list comes with a fair warning about its reliability at the top though¹. English is indisputably the largest second language (L2) spoken in the world, and is vying for the position of most spoken language with Mandarin Chinese.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_num...
- bpicolo 9y ago"For example, English has about 400 million native speakers but, depending on the criterion chosen, can be said to have as many as 2 billion speakers." So depending on how you choose you metric, English wins overall