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The table illustrates the

number

of native speakers of six languages as well as the

number

of speakers of these languages as an additional

language

. It is noticeable that the

number

of speakers of Mandarin Chinese is strikingly higher than the other languages with over one billion speakers. People who speak Mandarin largely speak it as a

first

language

(900

million

). In comparison to

this

only 190

million

people speak Mandarin Chinese as an additional

language

. What is remarkable about English speakers is that the

number

of speakers of English as an additional

language

is higher than that of native speakers of English (603 and 339

million

respectively). While the total

number

of Hindi speakers (490

million

) is roughly equal to that of Spanish speakers (420

million

); when it comes to speaking these languages as an additional

language

the

number

for

Suggestion

in

Hindi is much higher (120

million

) than that for Spanish (70

million

). Native speakers of Arabic and Portuguese are similar in

number

with

Suggestion

to

206

million

and 203

million

respectively.

However

, the

number

of Arabic speakers as an additional

language

(24

million

) is almost 2.5 times higher than speakers of Portuguese as an additional

language

.