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That’s at all, there are only ~380 million native English speakers. Of that 1/3 (of the global population) a significant percentage have extremely limited skil
by Retric 2y ago
That’s at all, there are only ~380 million native English speakers.
Of that 1/3 (of the global population) a significant percentage have extremely limited skills, though the threshold is above knowing a few random words.
- adriancr 2y ago> Including people who speak English as a second language, estimates of the total number of Anglophones vary from 1.5 billion to 2 billion wikipedia. You are a bit off... As for native you have US+UK+Canada+Australia+NZ+Ireland. So more then your 380M.
- Retric 2y ago~47 million Americans aren’t native English speakers having immigrated from a non English speaking country.
- adriancr 2y agoSource?
- Retric 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_immigration_statistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_immigration_stat...
- adriancr 2y ago> aren’t native English speakers Where does it state this? Do you assume that all immigrants are non-native english speakers?
- Retric 2y agoBy coming from different country their native language (IE what language they heard as infants) more closely resembles that country than America. Note I said 47 million and there are more than 47 million immigrants. There are also some native born Americans to immigrants who also don’t have English as their first language and People born in China whose first language is English, but that’s ever smaller refinements on a specific estimate.
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- Retric 2y ago[flagged]
- adriancr 2y agoYou made this statement which is wrong: > ~47 million Americans aren’t native English speakers having immigrated from a non English speaking country. Your link says 46M total which includes native speakers. So it does not state how many non-native speakers. (not that it would matter as most would be proficient english speakers, just pointing out you're exagerating and your numbers are wrong)
- Retric 2y agoLink is showing slightly outdated data as is common on Wikipedia, but the breakdown by country is what’s important. “About 47.8 million immigrants in 2023” https://usafacts.org/answers/how-many-immigrants-are-in-the-us/country/united-states/ https://usafacts.org/answers/how-many-immigrants-are-in-the-...
- JumpCrisscross 2y agoMy family immigrated. We’re native English speakers from India.
- switchbak 2y agoWho cares if they're native English speakers or not, as long as they can converse in the language?
- Retric 2y agoshortrounddev2 who brought the topic up without knowing the numbers.
- shortrounddev2 2y agoIf they are native English speakers, then how do they have extremely limited skills?