Вопрос школьника
Look at the list of languages and put them in order from most to least spoken in the world.
b) Listen to the recording and check your guesses. Fill in the 1st column of the table in your Workbook.
Ответ от учителя
The list of languages can be put in order from most to least spoken in the world based on the number of native speakers and total speakers. According to Ethnologue, the top five most spoken languages in the world are:
1. Mandarin Chinese — with over 1.3 billion native speakers and 1.2 billion total speakers.
2. Spanish — with over 460 million native speakers and 570 million total speakers.
3. English — with over 380 million native speakers and 1.1 billion total speakers.
4. Hindi — with over 340 million native speakers and 600 million total speakers.
5. Arabic — with over 290 million native speakers and 420 million total speakers.
Other languages that are widely spoken in the world include Bengali, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, and Punjabi.
After listening to the recording, the order of the languages in the table in the Workbook can be filled in based on the information provided.
