How about English as a first language listing? I can see that many non-native speakers are commenting here, with lot of grammatical errors. Though, those are not very serious ones, we can avoid such mistakes by checking the spelling and grammar, using the Microsoft word or any other tool, before posting the contents to a public online forum.
I would like to ask where did the numbers for the first part came from. I tried looking it up but nothing is coming up. I think this writer is absolutely sick in the head! Hi Miriam, Of course most people from Nigeria are hard workers and good people! The point was made more than once in the post that the email scams came from a few bad apples. Hi Richard, point of correction here, I got into this beautiful website through Google aiming to read about numbers of countries that speaks English not about a particular country that do fraud, lengthy article you wrote about this country called Nigeria is a bit to far and biased, pls stick to your point so that your audience will remain.
Bad media publicity must have done you wrong here, according to the world fraud statistics Nigeria is not even closer to the point of mentioning, the way you pictured the country is really bad, I really pity the citizens of the country. I love this website but this not good. No need to feel sorry for Nigerians, they have a lovely country with a rich artistic, literary and film scene.
The reason the bit about Nigeria was so long was that we wanted to make sure to showcase those positives instead of letting an entire country be defined by a few bad apples.
Could you please share the source? It is amazingly interesting. South Africa — Population of almost 55 million and half at least speak it as a first language. Zimbabwe, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi have all been left out of the mix. An informative piece. Thank you. If one does not, then one is not proficient in English. That is questionable. All language varieties are the proud products of their environments and cultures. Variety, linguists say, is the spice of language.
It is not my ambition to speak through the nose and eat up words in the mouth and throat as Europeans do to English. People speak naturally and so there are bound to be differences in language varieties. Imposing the features of variety A on variety B is questionable, sometimes done to an objectionable level.
And look at the way you biasedly introduced Nigeria, claiming that many fraudsters come from there because they use English. What do you call this kind of warped thinking? Why did you not introduce the UK and the US as imperialist countriesn using English to retard our progress and make lose our identity?
Nigeria with over 70 million speakers of English does not have up to four million who are proficient in English? How and when was this manipulated test conducted? Anyway, I do not blame you. If Africans were wise people, l mean our leaders, they will leave your English for you. And let me predict, this global hegemony that English enjoys will soon collapse.
It cannot last forever. Mark this. People are a mixed bag no matter where you go, and the Internet presented bad actors around the world with new opportunities. I think you could have put Nigeria on the list without talking about the part of the scam.
What a wrong stereotype!!! English is not a level of intelligence. But now english is useful for the filipinos. English was first taught in the philippines by american teachers who arrived by a vessel named thomas. I do hope you revise your list because your data right here can be debunked on any day. We can sit to deliberate on this on any day at all, but i just need you to acknowledge your data is flawed since the accuracy level is wrong to begin with.
Hello Adobea, thank you for your input! In this blog post we focused on top 5 English speaking countries by population. Nigeria should be on the second spot, it has over two hundred million population and English is the major language spoken by everyone and the major language taught in schools. Hi Kenneth- It should be at number 3, underneath India. Thank you for letting us know! You did not mention why people use Emglish yet it is one one the most difficult language to get the message across in.
For example, the United States has no official language at the federal level, even though English is the most commonly spoken language. Of the nations where English is a de facto national language, the United States is the most populous with an estimated million people.
There are four nations where English is the de facto language and the primary language. English Speaking Countries What countries speak English? Show Source. English Speaking Countries. In the United States, workers quitting their jobs increased by almost , in the past year, meaning companies need to rethink their talent strategies.
I accept. These charts reveal where English is most widely spoken as a second language. Keith Breene , Formative Content.
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In fact, the only non-European nation in the top ten is Singapore at number six. Have you read?
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