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Anonymous 18th January 2010 |
@Ryan Caravana: Really? I've lived in Singapore for several years and many of the natives do in fact speak a decent level of English -- unless of course you go to places such as Chinatown. |
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Ashish Shrestha 2nd January 2010 |
Where does China stand? |
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Ryan+Caravana+(New+Zealand+and+Philippin 17th December 2009 |
I went to Singapore last year and Ive had a hard time communicating with some of the natives, all i get is either broken english or the phrase "sorry no englits" and they are requiring foreign nurses to study Mandarin in order to be given a job in Singapore? Foreign people are not required to be fluent in Filipino Language because english is the official language in the Philippines, and Singapore is way higher in rank than the Philippines in terms of English speaking? This survey is 100% incorrect, |
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Ryan Caravana (New Zealand and Philippin 17th December 2009 |
I went to Singapore last year and Ive had a hard time communicating with some of the natives, all i get is either broken english or the phrase "sorry no englits" and they are requiring foreign nurses to study Mandarin in order to be given a job in Singapore? Foreign people are not required to be fluent in Filipino Language because english is the official language in the Philippines, and Singapore is way higher in rank than the Philippines in terms of English speaking? This survey is 100% incorrect, |
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Jimmy Bacon 7th May 2009 |
Why isn't Jamaica on the English sparking list? |
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E Tan 1st December 2005 |
This data seems inaccurate/incomplete - e.g. there is no information on the number of English speakers in Malaysia, which one estimate has at about 10% of the population or about 2.5 million |
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blouis@clemson.edu 22nd November 2005 |
Why is the number of English speakers in India left out of your statistics? I would like to know the current number please. |
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Ian Graham Staff Editor 12th April 2005 |
If you combine the number of mother tongue speakers (32,802) and second-language speakers of English (52 percent of the population) given here for the Philippines, you get a total of about 44 million English speakers in the country, more than all but the top two countries on this list. There may be more English speakers than that in the Philippines, but they may not have identified theie mother tongue as English in the census, which could explain why the number of English speakers given for the Philippines is so low. |
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Suchita Vemuri Staff Editor 5th March 2005 |
Hi Leslie -- you're right! The problem, however, lies partly with the census in India, which has changing formats and currently does not allow reporting for more than two languages! Since India has more than 300 spoken languages and most people would report one of these as the "mother tongue" (or the first language, even if it is not commonly spoken at home), and then report the national language, Hindi, as the second language, however comfortable they may be with English, it will not be reported in the census figures. In the 1981 census of India, 0.3% of the population said English was their first language. English daily newspapers in India have a irculation of more than 3 million, with an average 5 million readers to every copy, and all schools in urban centers and many in rural areas teach English. |
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