The table below gives information about languages with the most native speakers. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
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 Fix the agreement mistake
languages
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 Add a comma
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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 Hindi is much higher (120 million
) than that for Spanish (70 million
).
Native speakers
of Arabic and Portuguese are similar in number
with 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
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