{"id":144893,"date":"2024-10-11T17:31:25","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T00:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=144893"},"modified":"2024-10-11T17:31:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T00:31:25","slug":"english-the-global-language-of-communication-negotiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/10\/11\/english-the-global-language-of-communication-negotiation\/","title":{"rendered":"English the Global Language of Communication & Negotiation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prof. Hudson McLean<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Languages Main & Official in EU!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Courtesy of Google.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Many Speak English in EU?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You won’t have to go far to find an English speaking country in Europe as there are over 370 million English speakers out of about 450 million EU residents!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Many Speak English Globally?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Out of the world’s approximately 7.8 billion inhabitants, 1.35 billion speak English. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are the 5 European languages?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Five languages have more than 50 million native speakers in Europe: Russian, German, French, Italian, and English. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russian is the most-spoken native language in Europe, and English has the largest number of speakers in total, including some 200 million speakers of English as a second or foreign language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What languages are in the EU Parliament?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The accession of Croatia on 1 July 2013 brought the total number of official languages to 24: Bulgarian, Czech, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Irish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish and Swedish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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