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Their map showing distribution of English speaking people is just terrible - I am fairly sure that there is at least one percent speaking English in India, West
by ReptileMan 3y ago
Their map showing distribution of English speaking people is just terrible - I am fairly sure that there is at least one percent speaking English in India, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Russia and China.
- samus 3y agoIt must set a terribly high threshold (like language certificate holders or graduates of English-speaking schools) or actually report the percentage of native speakers. But one only has to be fluent enough to write chat messages to use a text model!
- vidarh 3y agoYeah, that's weird. Depending on how you count least India, Pakistan, and Nigeria has more English speakers than the UK in absolute terms (Nigeria might end up either side depending on how strict you are), and Nigeria is on its path to overtake the UK as the country with the second largest number of native English speakers, as it's increasingly often the 2nd language of parents with different 1st languages. E.g. my ex's parents had Igbo and Yoruba as their 1st languages, but she and all her siblings has English as theirs.