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World’s largest English-speaking country?USA? Think again Joe | Monday, June 29th, 2009 | Filed under Curiosities
32 Responses to “World’s largest English-speaking country?”Leave a Comment |  Personal blog of Josef Essberger, EnglishClub founder Browse by Category |
30th June 2009 at 9:51 am
Very interesting story.Of course most populous
nation will become the world’s largest English-speaking Country in China.
Hence it is most meaningful to express the
English speaking .So these figures should be
treated with caution.
I’m really like this story.
Good night
Linda K (Hollywood USA)
30th June 2009 at 1:02 pm
Thanks for sharing. This makes a great reading assignment for advanced learners.
30th June 2009 at 2:54 pm
Question is “World’s largest English-speaking country?” so my opnion is The world Largest English Speaking Country in our Pakistan,,, coz we forget our urdu and we use english in our daily life yet we write also sms in Roman English
7th July 2009 at 8:04 am
India is largest English speaking than any other country. Apart from fluency Indians are speaking English with perfect grammar. It is second largest populated young country and having ratio of 62% young people i. e. between 18 to 45 years old. Out of this 72% only 15% are able to understand the English meaning, while 42% are speaking English with fluency and without any grammatical mistake and Remaining 5% are non-English speakers. Remaining 28% people our of 100% population which compromises kids and elders or senior ctitizens 6% are English speaking people and children. So now count 6%+42%15% = 63%. India’s total population is around 1Billion. Now anyone can easily understand that 63 million people are aware about English language and English speaking.
Jagtap, H. M. Jagtap.
12th July 2009 at 9:16 pm
That’s good for Chinese people . That may help them to express themselves better to the world since not many foreigners understand Chinese language .
13th July 2009 at 2:44 am
Hope that one day in the future all the people in the world can speak Chinese fluency.
15th July 2009 at 8:59 am
Hi Joe,
Love reading your blogs and find your site useful. However, may I just correct something you wrote in your June 22 wordchecker? “diameter” is also spelt “ter” not “tre” (unlike “metre/meter) in “English” English. Happy blogging, Val, England.
29th July 2009 at 9:00 am
I think it must be England
29th July 2009 at 9:02 am
Yes, I really think so
And I would like to ask you that, is there any way to earn money easily ???
Thank for attention!!!
14th August 2009 at 5:04 pm
To Val: thank you. oops You are of course right and diameter has been corrected.
23rd August 2009 at 10:06 am
of course not my country
EGTPT
lol
7th September 2009 at 11:56 am
I think INDIA is the first country to people speaking more english,,,,
1st October 2009 at 12:14 am
i think philippines is the largest speaking english in the world the used it everyday and asians travel t philippines just t study english there
10th December 2009 at 7:19 am
ian, not Philippines… I’m a Filipino and i don’t hear English everywhere… Taglish maybe… that’s Tagalog-English
largest speaking English? i don’t know, maybe UK
17th January 2010 at 2:39 pm
I agree, India is the largest English speaking country because it is spoken as a second language widely. I teach English in China so am well aware of the enthusiasm for learning English here, but it is still a ‘foreign’ language here and far from being ubiquitous.
25th February 2010 at 3:01 pm
i dont think so, i think the philippines is better than china on how to speak english
29th June 2010 at 8:12 am
anyone here who wants to have a conversation with me in english? im from the philipines..
29th June 2010 at 8:18 am
we here in the philipines focusing not only the american language. but also the american’s idioms. so that we can understand all what they are saying even in the improper way
31st July 2010 at 5:44 am
for me the philippines rank third from the US and the Uk in terms of using english as a language not in the number of speakers but in the ratio of the speakers to its population. if u rank it by the numbers of speakers who speak the english laguage of course the philippines will be out ranked by india and china. the percentage of the filipino population who uses english is more than half of its population unlike china and india which only a fraction of its people uses it. by the way im a filipino and proud to be one… Goodday everyone… peace!
31st July 2010 at 5:51 am
one more thing, any foreigners who travels to the philippines will not be lost because english is widely used in media whether print, television or radio broadcast, and its not all that all the signs, billboards and streets are in english. a simple sidewalk vendor can understand and tell you any direction you want to know if you just ask them politely… unlike india and china most of the things are still written in local language.
31st July 2010 at 5:55 am
i worked outside the philippines, i worked with chinese and indian nationals yes they speak english but if you listen carefully their grammar is not correct. their pronunciation is not correct either, not all words but some. that is why its just correct what the philippine government claims that we are the third largest english speakers in the world. there’s no contest about it!
24th November 2010 at 1:10 pm
i think philippines is the best english speakers, im not a filipino but i think it is philippines..
24th November 2010 at 1:21 pm
lol for me filipino coz they speak fluent in english not all can speak english but mostly they are good in english,haahhahaahahah
26th November 2010 at 11:51 am
joke… I’m Filipino… because i want you to believe that i really love Philippines. I think Philippines is the best only in Asia coz,as Kim Dc said Philippines is the third of Us and Uk.As I said Philippines is the best in Asia.As Kim Dc said again yes Indian and Chinese also speaking English but their grammar were incorrect.How I said that the Philippines is the best english-speaking in Asia coz Philippines is the the third of Us and UK how if in the Asia so Philippines is the best in Asia…
peace
16th January 2011 at 5:17 am
Thanks for sharing. This makes a great reading assignment for advanced learners.That
5th February 2011 at 8:32 pm
I am quite sure that INDIA is that country where English in spoken by the maximum number of people. It’s because, English in India, is treated as second compulsory language.
21st March 2011 at 5:40 am
indian speak best english. the white people raping the english language . cos they can t speak
1st June 2011 at 5:15 pm
Thanks for sharing. This makes a great reading assignment for advanced learners.That
30th July 2011 at 3:02 am
This post is interesting. Mind if I share my opinion? Well, here it is.
Of course the largest English speaking country would either be US or UK because it’s their main language. Travel around the world and you wouldn’t see common people there conversing in English. It’s only usual for businessmen, rich males and females and people alike - but the commoners? No way. Have you seen two ordinary Indians or Chinese talk in English? Maybe…?
But if you look at the question on another perspective, Philippines would be like the third in FLUENCY. And yes, I am a Filipino. I can speak fluent English, I watch English movies, I read English novels, etc. Of course, I wouldn’t say everyone of us (Filipinos) is good at it, grammatically speaking, but in terms of tongue, we’re a lot better than the Chinese and Indians.
So, to sum it up, I think (and know) that Filipinos are the third largest English-speaking people in the world.
Thanks for posting it for about … two years and one month ago. I hope that the opinion of a fourteen year old girl counts. =D
21st November 2011 at 6:17 am
Filipino have the linguistic intelligence… English are very easy for every Filipinos and English is everywhere when i came in the Philippines. I vote Philippines!!! They are easy to adopt any languages. Obviously Philippine people are everywhere and always belong with the Global Competition because they are intelligence nations
6th July 2012 at 5:20 am
I bet the Philippines as the 3rd largest English Speaking country in the World.
Koreans are coming to the Philippines to study English.
When you walk anywhere you could see white people from Americas and UK and Europe, try to ask them and they will say I am Filipino because my mom is Filipino. Or they will say I am Filipino even my mom is Australian but my Dad is Filipino. Most of them are Dual Citizens.
With respect to the Population, majority of Filipino Speaks English
With respect to the accent and pronunciation, Philippines’ accent is better than India and China.
With respect to the number of native English Speaker or English as their first language, Philippines is next to New Zealand.
Filipino English Teachers are Teaching English in Canada, South Korea, China, and many ASEAN countries
5th May 2013 at 8:23 pm
Thank you for those who are trusted that the philippines is the largest speaking english language in the world specially to miss lyn of thailand mabuhay ka..
m proud to be a filipino..