I Speak English. What Next?

A lesson on writing a report

by | Jul 27, 2019 | Writing

English is an official language of almost 60 sovereign states and the most commonly spoken language in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand. If you can read this lesson, you too probably speak this language! But what if you want to be able to communicate with even more people globally.

In that case, it is important to know what language is spoken and taught more than others, and therefore should be learned after English. Read the report below (hint: IELTS writing task 1 Academic) and decide for yourself.

 

The table given provides data on five most common languages in the world, and the pie chart illustrates the percentage of languages taught in colleges and universities in the United States in the year 2009.

Looking at the table, by far the most commonly spoken language worldwide is Mandarin with approximately one billion people speaking it (i.e. 14.4 percent of the world’s population). Spanish speakers, ranking second, contribute to buy antibiotics online for gonorrhea just over six per cent of the global population (four hundred million). Surprisingly, English holds only the third rank, and a relatively small number of 360 million people speak English as their mother tongue comprising merely 5.43 per cent of the world’s population. Hindi and Arabic hardly reach five percent and have 310 and 295 million native speakers respectively.

As for the popularity of foreign languages in the US, roughly five out of ten American students who needed to learn a foreign language chose Spanish making it the most favorite foreign language in the country. French and German held the second and third ranks with thirteen and six percent respectively. Other languages combined represented thirty per cent of learners’ choices.

Overall, although Mandarin stands at the top of the list in terms of the number of native speakers, Spanish was preferred by a great deal of American students as a foreign language to learn in 2009.

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About the Author

CEO and Co-founder of Juice Academy

Mehdi Safavi is a Cambridge certified English teacher (CELTA Grade A), IDP-trained IELTS expert, Sussex Downs College TESOL with 17+ years of teaching & teacher training experience. More about him →

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