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from baas, Santa Claus (from Sinterklaas); via Dutch/Afrikaans speakers with English speakers in South Africa, such as wildebeest, apartheid, boer, trek;

speak and write English. Variably known as English as a foreign language (EFL), English as a second language (ESL), English for speakers of other languages

Teaching English as a second (TESL) or foreign language (TEFL) and teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) are terms that refer to teaching

second-language speakers than native speakers. However, English is only the third-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. English is either

variant of international English. Many non-native English speakers study the subject with the goal of doing business with English-speaking countries or with

tourism. By the twenty-first century, non-native English speakers have come to outnumber native speakers by a factor of three, according to the British

million speakers, of which about 74 million are native speakers; it is spoken as a first language (in descending order of the number of speakers) in France

Zamenhof by Richard Geoghegan, author of the first Esperanto textbook for English speakers, in 1887. The flag was approved in 1905 by delegates to the

following French. However, in the 1960s and 1970s, English was not prominently featured in Algerian textbooks, possibly due to apprehension regarding a neocolonial

of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL /ˈtoʊfəl/ TOH-fəl) is a standardized test to measure the English language ability of non-native speakers wishing