by knowing english, how many people can you communicate? and with Spanish, and French?

Question

I was curious about the english language and how important it is being knowing the number of people who speak english. But if a person speaks english, spanish, and french how many people can he speak or what percent of the people on earth can he speak to?

the reason I asked is because I am intrested in majoring in French and Spanish as an American and was wondering how many people I can speak to.

Answer 1

Well, about the english, I don't know, but with Spanish you can communicate with most countries of Latin America and other countries as well. Spanish is the third most common language in the world. About French, you can communicate with people from France, Canada, many countries of Africa, Switzerland, Belgium, and some others.
In Canada some people refuse to speak english and use only French

Answer 2

Nationalistic countries sometimes do not have much knowledge of English, like most in eu countries where films are translated to their own languages....you find few english cinemas!

Asian countries use english as the medium of communication in schools so thats a bit easy. Spanish would be nice and some words are the same in filipino, italian and french , try also German coz that's the most difficult language I encountered.

Answer 3

All of South America for Spanish, except Brazil where Portuguese is spoken
Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa where English is spoken, and India and Pakistan where it was taught in colonial times.
France, Quebec, certain countries in Africa, Algeria, Congo, where French was spoken

Don't be deceived that English is spoken everywhere. People in hotels may speak it but don't expect it at non-tourist places

Answer 4

English estimates vary from 275 to 450 million, Spanish from 150 to over 300 million, Hindi from 150 to 350 million, and Russian from 150 to 180 million.from these statics i gathered these are the most spoken language's

Answer 5

With english you can communicate with american, UK and ect. Then with spanish you can communicate with part of latin american and the caribbean. Then french of course in france, part of african and ect. Well hope it helps!!

*MS.G*

Answer 6

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There are many countries that have a mix of official languages. Belgium is just one example.

I'd say Spanish, and Arabic, and Chinese.

Answer 7

you can communicate with every REAL American . . whats that a few Billion