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Which Language Is International? | ||
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| owshawng Senior Member United States Joined 6892 days ago 202 posts - 217 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 9 of 37 28 September 2007 at 7:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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French or Spanish for 2 and 3 with Cantonese and Mandarin for 4 & 5.
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| Paul Tetraglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 7127 days ago 114 posts - 124 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, German Studies: Italian | Message 10 of 37 28 September 2007 at 7:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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hmm, i'm not sure how Cantonese can be considered a more important international language than Russian or
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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6476 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 11 of 37 29 September 2007 at 3:12am | IP Logged | ||
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Esperanto has speakers on all continents and probably in all countries (not sure about dwarf states like San Marino), but the amount of speakers is nowhere comparable to any of the UN languages. You should probably refine your criteria for an "international language".
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| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6774 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 12 of 37 29 September 2007 at 6:21am | IP Logged | ||
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If I recall correctly, San Marino actually hosts the world's only higher-education institute where classes are conducted in Esperanto.
Surely there are dozens of languages with speakers in every country and major city. However, a limited number of languages can be considered truly international, being used or understood in many countries and most or all continents: French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Italian, Russian, and Dutch. Maybe Hindi too, these days. Edited by Captain Haddock on 29 September 2007 at 6:22am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| justinwilliams Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6695 days ago 321 posts - 327 votes 3 sounds Speaks: French*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Italian | Message 13 of 37 29 September 2007 at 8:25am | IP Logged | ||
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Is 'simple English' a language of its own? lol It is on wikipedia at least.
But French would be number 2 for me if being widespread is a criterion. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| patoso Groupie United States Joined 6278 days ago 53 posts - 40 votes | Message 14 of 37 29 September 2007 at 9:48am | IP Logged | ||
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Okay, which language is growing as the 2th international language of the world? Which one is growing the fastest and beat the other languages in the future?
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| lloydkirk Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6419 days ago 429 posts - 452 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Russian | Message 15 of 37 29 September 2007 at 11:03am | IP Logged | ||
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There really isn't a second international language. French would be the closest. There are languages growing in importance such as Spanish, Arabic and Mandarin, but they are a far cry from being international.
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| HTale Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6384 days ago 164 posts - 167 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written)* Studies: French | Message 16 of 37 29 September 2007 at 1:55pm | IP Logged | ||
Arabic and Mandarin are certainly not international languages, because most of the inhabitants with that language as their mother tongue prefer English. Because of that, both have little chance of being an international language in the future. The importance of a knowledge (working, or otherwise) of both languages is obviously very important. That said, you probably now know that my definition of an international language is the spread of its use, rather than the sheer volume of speakers. In that sense, you can most certainly add Esperanto to that list. Edited by HTale on 29 September 2007 at 1:56pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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