English is the world's most widely spoken language

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https://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/5-most-spoken-languages-in-the-world-972042/

 

[Tdol]

It does, however, depend on how you define a language speaker. Some lists place Mandarin Chinese first in numbers of first language speakers, but that does not come close to the numbers of people who can converse in English. What is a speaker of a language?