1548: Disproportionally Learned Languages Mar 10, 2019

English is by far the most learned second language (L2) of any language in the world, but because it still has quite a large amount of native speakers (L1), the ratio of L2 to L1 is not the greatest. It is difficult to measure that in particular, but the highest ratio in this category would probably go to Swahili, which has nearly 5 times as many second language speakers than native ones. For comparison, L2 English speakers only outnumber native speakers by about 1.6 times.
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