| ▲ | Retric 6 months ago |
| That’s at all, there are only ~380 million native English speakers. Of that 1/3 (of the global population) a significant percentage have extremely limited skills, though the threshold is above knowing a few random words. |
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| ▲ | shortrounddev2 6 months ago | parent | next [-] |
| If they are native English speakers, then how do they have extremely limited skills? |
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| ▲ | Retric 6 months ago | parent | next [-] | | I added clarification, but “that 1/3” refers to my prior mention of 1/3 as in 1/3 of the global population. | |
| ▲ | edoceo 6 months ago | parent | prev [-] | | American education. |
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| ▲ | adriancr 6 months ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > Including people who speak English as a second language, estimates of the total number of Anglophones vary from 1.5 billion to 2 billion wikipedia. You are a bit off... As for native you have US+UK+Canada+Australia+NZ+Ireland. So more then your 380M. |
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| ▲ | Retric 6 months ago | parent [-] | | ~47 million Americans aren’t native English speakers having immigrated from a non English speaking country. | | |
| ▲ | switchbak 6 months ago | parent | next [-] | | Who cares if they're native English speakers or not, as long as they can converse in the language? | | |
| ▲ | Retric 6 months ago | parent [-] | | shortrounddev2 who brought the topic up without knowing the numbers. |
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| ▲ | adriancr 6 months ago | parent | prev [-] | | Source? | | |
| ▲ | Retric 6 months ago | parent [-] | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_immigration_stat... | | |
| ▲ | adriancr 6 months ago | parent [-] | | > aren’t native English speakers Where does it state this? Do you assume that all immigrants are non-native english speakers? | | |
| ▲ | Retric 6 months ago | parent [-] | | By coming from different country their native language (IE what language they heard as infants) more closely resembles that country than America. Note I said 47 million and there are more than 47 million immigrants. There are also some native born Americans to immigrants who also don’t have English as their first language and People born in China whose first language is English, but that’s ever smaller refinements on a specific estimate. | | |
| ▲ | adriancr 6 months ago | parent [-] | | [flagged] | | |
| ▲ | Retric 6 months ago | parent [-] | | [flagged] | | |
| ▲ | adriancr 6 months ago | parent [-] | | You made this statement which is wrong: > ~47 million Americans aren’t native English speakers having immigrated from a non English speaking country. Your link says 46M total which includes native speakers. So it does not state how many non-native speakers. (not that it would matter as most would be proficient english speakers, just pointing out you're exagerating and your numbers are wrong) | | |
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