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20 -25% speak English as a native or second language. There are 300 million Chinese studying English and many more from India, Korea and the Arab world.

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There are about 200 languages that have a million or more "native" speakers. Mandarin Chinese is the most common, being spoken by around 874,000,000 people as a native language. English is a distant third with approximately 341,000,000 native speakers.

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