A lot of the third world population cannot speak English and also probably has never heard English spoken by any human. Tribes in the jungles around the world do not speak in English unless a missionary takes the time to teach it to them while learning the tribal language. Most of Russia does not speak in English, neither do the Chinese because they live in the rural areas or have no way to learn the language or have a reason to learn it. It would amaze many people to learn that many Africans can speak some words or sentences in English.
Approximately 1 billion more people in the world speak Chinese than speak English, making Chinese the most spoken language globally.
The estimated number of people in the world that speak English fluently is about 30 percent of the population. If the world's population is about 7,264,712,400 people. This would mean that roughly 2,179,413,720 people in the world currently speak English fluently.
American people speak American English, and normally speak it wherever they are in the world unless they know other languages.
I would say, about 3 quarters of the whole world would PROBALLY speak English. Its not a definate, but if you think. If you go to somewhere like Turkey, Egypt or Morocco most of the locals speak it!
Because you are English meaning you know a lot and know how to speak English.But to people in other areas in the world like Asia and Africa, people love English class and will do what ever to learn how to speak it.
More people speak Spanish as a native tongue (first language) than English, but more people speak English as a second or third or fourth language than Spanish.
Lots of people are english, in fact from all over the world but some come from another country but speak english.
They learn it at school, they also watch English tv and movies. Most of the Dutch people can speak it very well and they learn it because nobody else speaks Dutch in the world.
About 65% of English people speak another language in addition to English, according to a survey conducted by the European Commission in 2012.
People should speak English because America is such a big and successful country that the language is spreading all across the world. And if you live in a place with many tourists from America, you should learn and know English. It might be hard to learn but it will be worth it.
many Spanish people have learned to speak English, the same as English speaking people have learned to speak Spanish, this goes for almost any one who thinks it is great to learn different languages and it serves them well when travelling to different parts of the world.
With over 250 million people who speak Enlgish, the United States is the largest English-speaking country in the world.