How many people speak English?

Answer 1

Mandarin Chinese while not the most widely spoken language in the world is the language spoken by the most people around the world.

It's hard to say how many people speak Mandarin world wide. Due to the countries national language or required learning languages include Mandarin Chinese the following can be assumed:

Population of China: 1.4 billion

Population of Taiwan: 23 million

Population of Singapore: 4.58 million

Total of three countries: 1.427 billion

(Figures are approximations as of June 2008)

This doesn't include the Chinese that have immigrated to other countries. Nor does it include countries where their may be other Mandarin speakers such as Malaysia. The ultimate figure would possibly be much higher.

Answer 2

There are many Chinese languages, some of them as different from each other as English is from Spanish, or more so. The Ethnologue database lists 13 of them, with a total speaking population of about 1.2 billion.

The official language of China, Mandarin Chinese, has around 840 million speakers.

Answer 3

Anywhere from 500 million to 1.8 billion people in the world speak English, depending on what you count as being able to speak a language.

About 300 to 400 million of those speak it as a first language, with an additional 200 to 1,400 million speaking it as a second language.

Answer 4

About 5 millions chinese people live in Canada or France.

Answer 5

As of 2012, it's estimated that approximately 1,020,000 people speak Mandarin either as a first language or an additional language.

Answer 6

Most of the old generation and some of the young generation in Taiwan speak taiwanese, and there are numbers of people in Singarpor speak Taiwanese too!