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Re:English as a second language: Test results on the most fl... by notahacker on Friday April 08, 2011 @01:08PM (#2424683)
Ridiculously small is a relative thing; compare with the hundreds of millions of Mandarin and Spanish speakers or even the 130 million Japanese speakers and you're talking about a much smaller market to target.

Moreover the wealth and cultural influence of these countries is a function of their willingness to interact beyond their linguistic sphere of influence.

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Re:English as a second language: Test results on the most fl... by riffraff on Friday April 08, 2011 @06:24PM (#2425837)
exactly. Mandarin, english, spanish, the arabic family, portuguese, russian, urdu and probably others all have speaking populations of more than 200 millions.
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