The number of people believed to speak English as a second language is around 375 million.
How many people speak English as a foreign language?
How many people speak English as a foreign language?
The British Council put the figure at more than 750 million people.
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How many people are learning English worldwide?
More than a billion people are in the process of learning the English language.
So how many speak English in total?
So how many speak English in total?
One out of every five people on earth can speak English to some level of competence.
How many words are there in the English Language?
How many words are there in the English Language?
This is an impossible question to answer! It really depends on what words you want to count. But there are, at the very least, a quarter of a million distinct English words, excluding inflections, and words from technical and regional vocabulary. The unabridged Oxford English Dictionary has about 600,000.
How many words does the average native speaker know?
This depends on the speakers level of education, background etc. but somewhere between 12,000 and 20,000. Shakespeare used more than.
How many words does the average native speaker use in everyday speech?
The average native speaker of any language uses around a tenth of his vocabulary in everyday speech. In other words, around 1200 to 2000.
How many words do you need to learn in order to communicate in most situations?
A vocabulary of between 1500 to 2000 words should be enough for most circumstances. The more you know the better because even though you can control the words you use, you can't control the other person. Because of this, you need to learn more words to understand well than you.
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