which european country has the most english speakers?
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English proficiency in European countries in 2019. This statistic presents the leading European countries by their level of English proficiency as of March 2019. According to data provided by Klazz, Sweden had the highest percentage of people who were proficient in English at 71 percent of the population.
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['Brazil. Brazil is one of the countries in high demand for English teachers due to a boom in business, trade, and tourism. ... ', "Cambodia. ESL teaching positions in Cambodia's job market are growing quickly. ... ", 'China. ... ', 'Colombia. ... ', 'Mexico. ... ', 'Morocco. ... ', 'Russia. ... ', 'South Korea.']
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['Spain. ... ', 'Italy. ... ', 'Sweden. ... ', 'Netherlands. ... ', 'Poland. ... ', 'Finland. ... ', 'Slovenia. ... ', 'Norway.']
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The South African National Census of 2011 found a total of 4,892,623 speakers of English as a first language, making up 9.6% of the national population. The provinces with significant English-speaking populations were the Western Cape (20.2% of the provincial population), Gauteng (13.3%) and KwaZulu-Natal (13.2%).
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['Chinese — 1.3 Billion Native Speakers. ... ', 'Spanish — 460 Million Native Speakers. ... ', 'English — 379 Million Native Speakers. ... ', 'Hindi — 341 Million Native Speakers. ... ', 'Arabic — 315 Million Native Speakers.']
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There are 24 official languages in Europe… but there are actually more than 200 languages spoken on the continent.
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Everybody in Ireland is 100% fluent in English. This is a great country to come to learn English. Yes, the majority speaks English as their native language. Native Irish-speakers are only thirty to fifty thousand people.
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There are approximately 50 countries in Europe. The largest by size is Russia with 40% of the continent, and Vatican City is the smallest. Europe is the third most populous continent behind Asia and Africa. Its population in 2016 is estimated at 738 million, which accounts for 11% of the world's population.
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['English. More than 375 million people are native English speakers. ... ', 'Chinese/Mandarin. There is not a single language in the world with more native speakers than Chinese. ... ', 'Spanish. ... ', 'Japanese. ... ', 'German. ... ', 'Russian. ... ', 'French. ... ', 'Arabic.']
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['Russian. Perhaps a surprise for many individuals, Russian tops this list as the most spoken language in Europe with 120 million native speakers on the continent! ... ', 'German. ... ', 'French. ... ', 'English. ... ', 'Turkish. ... ', 'Italian. ... ', 'Spanish. ... ', 'Ukrainian.']
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English is one of the 24 official languages of the European Union. Two countries in the EU have English as an official language : Malta and Ireland.
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English is spoken across the UK, but it is not the only native official language. You may also occasionally hear: Welsh in Wales. Gaelic and Scots in Scotland.
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In accordance with the EU population, the most widely spoken mother tongue is German (16%), followed by Italian and English (13% each), French (12%), then Spanish and Polish (8% each). For the majority of Europeans their mother tongue is one of the official languages of the country in which they reside.
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These include China, The Gambia, Malawi, Colombia, Swaziland, Brazil, Russia, Argentina, Algeria, Uganda, Yemen, Chile and Tanzania. We also used the EF English Proficiency Index, which ranks countries according to their English language proficiency.
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The most widely understood language in the EU is English, which is understood by 44% of all adults, while German is the most widely used mother tongue, spoken by 18%.
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Out of a total European population of 744 million as of 2018, some 94% are native speakers of an Indo-European language; within Indo-European, the three largest phyla are Romance, Germanic, and Slavic with more than 200 million speakers each, between them accounting for close to 90% of Europeans.
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As you may have guessed, English is the most commonly spoken language at home in our country. In fact, a whopping 98 per cent of Canadians say they have the ability to conduct a conversation in English, French or both.