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If she's talking about native speakers, then yes. But if you factor in those who use English as second or third language...English will be above Spanish
Many people from India (1 billion population) and the Philippines (100 million population) have at least some basic command of English
Pidgin, I would'nt call Pidgin "English". I guess that monolinguals don't understand the concept of first language.
The people from Spain must be clueless that California was once a part of Nueva Espana, then Mexico and has a lot of Mexican immigrants (legal and illegal)
Well I found Spain to be a very inclusive culture, you would be surprised.
A lot of these people were from small cities/towns and had never met Spanish speakers from other countries. Also, many people have a Hollywood view of Americans. They don't get the Mexican-American thing. They kept asking me about South America, even though I kept clarifying that I was from California.lol
To qualify as a "speaker" of a language, does that mean one who speaks English as well as I do, or Spanish as well as I do? I speak both, but with significant difference in competency.
Without looking up the numbers, I'd say a larger number of people speak Spanish every day in their homes, but a larger number of people can speak English if called upon to do so. If you do not tell us which definition do you have in mind, we cannot answer your question.
What do you guys do in a situation like this?
Tell the other person they are wrong or just let it go? I really want to tell him but don't know how, without offending him.
Yea that is why i dislike it when people who try to start a confrontation with you, in this case if it was me i would just nod my head and change the subject.
The entire discussion started with me saying that the world is globalizing/americanizing and that within a couple hundred years nearly all countries on this planet will have English as a official language.
Sorry that's an old quote...but that's NOT what gonna happen. In 100 years Spanish will be far more popular.
At least in North America and Eastern Europe. I see no reason to expect further expanding of English worldwide. Maybe China or Africa or Russia, but not elsewhere.
Sorry that's an old quote...but that's NOT what gonna happen. In 100 years Spanish will be far more popular.
At least in North America and Eastern Europe. I see no reason to expect further expanding of English worldwide. Maybe China or Africa or Russia, but not elsewhere.
Spanish in 100 years more popular than English lol.
Can't see many Asians and Africans picking up Spanish.
Spanish in 100 years more popular than English lol.
Can't see many Asians and Africans picking up Spanish.
Or are Hispanics taking over Hollywood?
Not today of course but I read somewhere Hispanics are "taking over" America in a way that they will be majority around 2050. The UK likely leaving the EU will result in fewer people willing to learn it on the "continent" and assuming they seek some union with Russia/China: more people there open to English.
Hell even in one Israeli city they've forbidden to the local politicians to speak English in an attempt to retain Hebrew.
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