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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Plus "Native Lang" definition is highly political. Can't testify for other languages, but for Russian the data is completely off
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not sure you can include Chinese as 1 language. Mandarin speaker wouldn't understand Cantonese, &vice versa. This changes the chart hugely.
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Although 848m Mandarin speakers is quite significant! ...
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What maniac cuts a pie like that?
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See two sub charts. One shows that English is spoken in 110 countries, nearly twice as many as Arabic.
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Cool, but caveat: this is for _native_ languages only, so it does not map onto communicative utility (ie "what should I learn")
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Fascinating. My hat's off to the chart designer's Tufte level achievement.
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