Mandarin has almost 3x native speakers than English

In today’s increasingly globalized world, having a shared means of communication—or an international language, rather—is more important than ever. With over 1.1 billion speakers worldwide, English is currently the closest we’ve come to a lingua franca, a common language that connects people from different backgrounds. However, Mandarin Chinese may one day catch up.
(Credit: Visual Capitalist)

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