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 below illustrates the comparison of six different languages in total native and second language speakers namely Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Spanish,

English

, Arabic and

Portuguese

. The unit is denoted by millions.

According to

the data,

it is clear that

the largest amount of native-speaking people was recorded in Mandarin

while

the other languages were about one-third of it. Meanwhile,

English

was the most popular compared to the other five. Looking at the statistics, we can see that 900 million people chose to use Chinese which made it rank first in the list

whereas

the smallest figure of speakers was recorded in

Portuguese

with only 203 million.

However

, there was a different trend in the total number of spoken languages for those who use

English

as their second way of communication when it accounted for the largest number with 603 million.

In addition

, it was still

Portuguese

that was noted as the lowest in the additional tongue category.

Finally

, it is obvious that the Chinese ranked first for the whole sum by 1090 followed closely by

English

with 942 and the

last

one was

Portuguese

.