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Re:Japan Has Changed a Lot by tsukikage on Thursday January 26, 2023 @06:06AM (#34530244)
> Completely different league, English has by magnitude more speakers than Chinese.

That's an incredible claim. Got a reference for it? Wikipedia reckons 1.5bn English vs 1.1 bn Chinese.

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Re:Japan Has Changed a Lot by ubercore on Thursday January 26, 2023 @06:44AM (#34530528)
Those numbers are native or second language. I bet the English numbers shoot way up vs Mandarin if you drop the bar to basic language skills or holding limited conversations.
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