Nowadays English is a very important and the most used language in the world. English is a native language to 340m speakers and the 2nd language to 375m people(715m speakers in all). Even that languages such as Chinese that have 873m native speakers and only 178m people use it as a second language (1,051m speakers in all), or Spanish which is an official language in many countries (420m speakers in all), English is still the lingua franca of the world. Moreover, the importance of an English we can see at the statistics that shows the number of articles in Wikipedia. There are 2,259,431 English articles in Wikipedia. In addition, English wins in Wikipedia with languages such as German (715,830 articles), French (629,004 articles), Polish (475,004 articles) or Japanese (472,691 articles), which are included in the top five in Wikipedia’s Database. Neverthelles, that shows the power of this language in the world.
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