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Originally posted by EviLGuY
Here is another source.. the CIA's website even lists it.
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/...elds/2098.html
You have to scroll down to the bottom of that page.. but here is what it says.
"Chinese, Mandarin 14.37%, Hindi 6.02%, English 5.61%, Spanish 5.59%, Bengali 3.4%, Portuguese 2.63%, Russian 2.75%, Japanese 2.06%, German, Standard 1.64%, Korean 1.28%, French 1.27% (2000 est.)"
That is percentage of the world's population that speaks whatever language.
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if you are doing business internationally you had best know English.
Make's no Diff. if you are from bum fucked Egypt... it's English.
It use 2 be French 30 or 40 years ago.
Hell when I was in Germany in the 1960's I dated a young girl that worked for an import export company and she made more than her father, spoke perfect English.