Countries Where over 50% of the population speaks English, Either as a First or Secondary Language
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What about India?
Very much class-based. I had Indian college roomie, real smart: only learned English when jumped to “highschool” from native-language system
Not nearly as many as I’d have guessed. Not knowing the language is hard for immigrants yet not knowing the culture can be almost as hard.
Surprising. I would expect more countries to have English as a secondary language … India, Mexico, Russia etc.
They don’t mean it this way
Officially: For example Canada has 2 main official languages-English & French
But overwhelming majority sp.Engl
Odd Japan isn’t on the list. All children learn English in school.
Most Japanese I’ve met haven’t spoken English very well – despite years of study barely worth mentioning (‘course my Japanese is even worse).
I lived there a long time. Everyone I knew spoke English. Both on Hokkaido and Honshu.
Pakistan and India should also be marked. But Greece? Switzerland?
This cant be right. Many more former UK colonies speak English.