VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [W]

The chart demonstrates an overall picture of the quantity of speakers of diverse languages, which is either native or second to people.
It is evident that the figure for those who speak Chinese as their mother tongue reach incredibly high 900 million, making it most widely used language all over the world. However, Arabic and Portuguese native speakers only account for nearly 10 percent of all and a similar pattern can be found in non-native speakers with 24 million and 10 million people respectively.
When it comes to the statistics of speakers as an additional language, there is an opposite trend. Specifically, English has become the most prevalent language of which users stood over 600 million, in stark contrast to 339 million with regard to native speakers. The figure for those who speak Chinese as their second language slumped to relatively low 190 million, being surpassed by English.
Shifting focus on the total number of speakers, Chinese has no doubt been the maximal one with approximately 1100 million speakers , closely followed by English with 942 million speakers. Though Hindi speakers didn’t stand out in terms of above-mentioned number, the quantity of total users franked the third, approaching 500 million.

The chart demonstrates an overall picture of the quantity of speakers of a diverse selection of / multiple languages, which is either spoken natively or as a second language.
It is evident that the figure for those who speak Chinese as their mother tongue reached incredibly high at 900 million, making it the most widely used language all over the world. However, Arabic and Portuguese native speakers only account for nearly 10 percent of all and a similar pattern can be found in non-native speakers with 24 million and 10 million people respectively.
When it comes to the statistics of speakers as an additional language, there is an opposite trend. Specifically, English has become the most prevalent language of which users stood over 600 million, in stark contrast to 339 million with regard to native speakers. The figure for those who speak Chinese as their second language slumped to a relatively low 190 million, being surpassed by English.
Shifting focus onto the total number of speakers, Chinese has no doubt been the maximal one with approximately 1.1 billion speakers overall / in total, closely followed by English with 942 million speakers. Though Hindi speakers didn’t stand out in terms of above-mentioned number, the quantity of total users ranked the third, approaching 500 million.

it is totaling 1.1 billion

it’s worth noting / it’s noteworthy that

although a word may pronounciate – may be pronounced as

as a famous saying goes

historian

in the last 200 years

participants

alteration

coalition

victorious

smooth it over with the Japanese / appease the Japanese

crowd mentality