Chart is fromhttp://twistedsifter.com/2015/06/proportional-pie-chart-of-the-most-spoken-languages/ …
What languages should kids learn? A useful chart. Note 1.5 billion people are learning English, but only 30 million are learning Chinese.pic.twitter.com/XbPocwB7Xn
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Non anglophones don't learn English to speak to us, but to speak to each other. Hence the most popular *2nd* language is the most valuable.
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Yes, that's why relative numbers learning English v. Chinese is interesting...
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Go one step further like in our case: send your kids to an American school where they have Mandarin as a third language.
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It's not the only useful metric, but I wish I'd paid more attention to it when learning Latin, French, & Japanese ...
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Feels very misleading - no hint of the vast number in India that use English; seems a very blunt representation based on 'nationality'
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wish there's link to bigger pic or site. I recall seeing this years before.
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English - Nigeria more numbers than U.K., where's Nigeria?
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