Explore: Handbook For Foreign Speakers

secondary speakers of the world's leading languages. Weber used the Fischer Weltalmanach of 1986 as his primary and only source for the L2-speakers data,

learned second language in the world, with more second-language speakers than native speakers. However, English is only the third-most spoken native language

communities of German-speakers are found in the Americas. German is one of the major languages of the world, with nearly 80 million native speakers and over 130

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

individual speaker or by a group of speakers. When the languages are just two, it is usually called bilingualism. It is believed that multilingual speakers outnumber

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

states to opine on international issues of their concern. The order of speakers is given first to member states, then observer states and supranational

of foreign affairs (abbreviated as MFA or MOFA) is the highest government department exclusively or primarily responsible for the state's foreign policy

achieved by personal interaction with the language and speakers of the language. Native speakers will not necessarily be knowledgeable about every grammatical

language other than English at home. In 2023, Spanish speakers made up about three-fifths of all speakers of languages other than English in the United States