Is China the number 1 English speaking country in the world?

I say China has the most English speaking people in the world, what say you?

 

Not sure, it could be probably close to the U.S. and Canada, since schools there do require you to have a little english.

 

I say they don't?

 

Interesting question. Asia in general, English is taught as a second language in most schools. Some schools it's compulsory. I know this is happening in Laos, even in government schools.

ESL is a huge industry in Asia more and more people learning and using English. China has 1.3 billion people with a rapidly growing middle class. As more people seek better education, English is on the list of subjects.

Also, there is a huge difference between speaking English and being fluent in the language.

BTW,, I've been a part time ESL teacher for over five years.

 

You mean engrish don't you?

 

its a toss up between india and china. i think india has more people speaking english

 

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'So an Asian goes to the eye doctor for a test. The doctor runs some tests and tells the man, "sir, you have a cataract." And Asian says, "No I don't, I drive a Rincoln."'

 

Law of Large Numbers. A small percentage of a very, very large number is a large number.

There are those that say China may have the largest number of Christians as well. Certainly more than the entire continent of Europe. Good for them!

 

India has an incredibly diverse range of languages,, I think there are 17 official languages.

I have a colleague who is also a close friend. He's Anglo-India, Catholic and went to one of the best Catholic colleges in Mumbai. His Hindi is almost non-existant. He looks Indian, but close your eyes when he's speaking and you'd swear he's British,,,he has a very Oxford English accent.

 

China also has the greatest number of McDonald restaurants in the world.

 

you must be a chinese,

chinese like to pretend to be a bigger person.


indian is the the number 1 English speaking country in the world, ok


chinese like to say that "at the time of our chinese mongol Empire, others were salves ruled by chinese"

lol


in mongol Empire, chinese were the lowset class.

genghis khan's law, killing a chinese = killing a donkey.

sorry to mention this.

 

Miss China, they do not speak english, they speak chinash.

 

Actually that would be India where English has been the Lingua Franca for well over a century. IN the main this is because the native Hindi exists in so many diverse dialects that it isn't uncommon for two Hindi speakers in adjacent villages to be unable to carry on a conversation with each other.

While many Chinese do have some facility with English it still isn't the language used by most Chinese as they go about there daily lives.