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The table illustrates the
number
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of native speakers of six languages as well as the
number
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of speakers of these languages as an additional
language
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. It is noticeable that the
number
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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
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language
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(900
million
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). In comparison to
this
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only 190
million
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people speak Mandarin Chinese as an additional
language
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. What is remarkable about English speakers is that the
number
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of speakers of English as an additional
language
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is higher than that of native speakers of English (603 and 339
million
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respectively). While the total
number
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of Hindi speakers (490
million
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) is roughly equal to that of Spanish speakers (420
million
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); when it comes to speaking these languages as an additional
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the
number
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for
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in
Hindi is much higher (120
million
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) than that for Spanish (70
million
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). Native speakers of Arabic and Portuguese are similar in
number
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with
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to
206
million
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and 203
million
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respectively.
However
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, the
number
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of Arabic speakers as an additional
language
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(24
million
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) is almost 2.5 times higher than speakers of Portuguese as an additional
language
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.
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