More than 3,000 languages are spoken on the earth today. Many of these languages are spoken 1 small groups of people. On the 2 hand, over 200 languages are spoken by one million or more people. Chinese is the language spoken by the 3 number of people in the world. But English is most 4 spoken in the world.
English is spoken by more than 400 million people 5 their first language. It is 6 by most people in the U.S.A., Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. And it is 7 used very widely in many other countries of the world.
Look at the back of your watch. You may see the English words "Made 8 China, or Japan, even Germany." English is the first language in 9 of these countries. Why are English words 10 on it? That is because in the modern world English is widely used for business between different countries.
