The top 10 languages spoken in the world

i thought that was LOVE?

 

Why make that lame comment about how to say hello in English? Nobody says that. Was there a purpose to this comment you slipped into your thread?

 

The list would give the accurrate picture only if we are talking about mother tongues.

 

I wanna learn russian.

 

japanese not in there. the hardest language to learn!
i really want to learn it thought..

 

I guess it is hard to learn if your mother tongue was Latin language as the grammars are so different - almost opposit! Even Chinese has a similar grammar to Latin languages.

BTW do you know that your user name means strawberry in Japanese? You might have picked it on purpose.

 

I've heard two year olds speaking Japanese, how hard can it be?

 

Where did you get your information from? I know Spanish is more widely used than English as a first language.

I'm guessing you're counting as a second language also, the numbers fit that way

Here's a list of languages ranked by first language; clearly Mandarin is top.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers

 

I think English the number of people speaking in english as their second language is considerably higher. English can be the most global language on the planet!

 

This makes me want to learn mandarin...just like me switching from altavista to google

Funny how number can affect you(read me).

 

well money speaks more than anything else

 

Chinese got the most users in the world.

 

I thought Chinese people spoke Chinese.

 

There's no such thing as Chinese.

Like there is no such thing as Indian

 

here in the Philippines, we are English speaking people.. we used it
as our second language.. i thought English is the most used language in the world.

BTW, where did you get those infos? i guess it was based on the number of people living in the country.. China got the highest population.

 

so,
Brazil has 190,010,647 populations
Portugal - 10,642,836
Angola - 15,941,000
Mozambique - 19,792,000
Cape Verde - 420,979
East Timor - 947,000
Guinea Bissau - 1,586,000
São Tome and Principe - 157,000
plus millions of emmigrants all over the world...

So I believe hat count is wrong

 

Ummm no, not correct..

Many people in Bihar speak Bengali, Mostly in the districts adjacent to the Bihar Bengal border, but you'll find many Bengalis in far west districts in Bihar like Patna and Muzaffarpur..

 

This is crazy, I thought the people who speak english are the majority in the world... wow...

 

Actually the people who CAN speak English are the majority in the world, no doubt...

 

One of the things with English is it's a magpie language. It has no problems in picking up words from other languages and passing them off as its own. Also it's easy to invent new words and if they're good enough they get used worldwide. You can't do that in French. All new words have to be scrutinised by a committe and they HATE the anglicisation of their language. They've had various degrees of success in introducing 'proper' new French words. When computers first came out originally the French word was 'computeur' (just say 'computer' with a French accent and you've got it), but they've successfully managed to introduce the word 'ordinateur' instead.

If they're not careful their langiage could go the way of Latin. But it IS a beautiful langiage to listen to. A French woman can read an article on Economics and can make it sound like she wants to rip your clothes off.