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I mean, duh, Kim Kardashian does speak English.
1. the US isn't included for Spanish, despite the fact that Spanish is the second most spoken language in the United States. Over 41 million people aged five or older speak Spanish at home. Spanish is also the most learned language other than English, with about six million students. Estimates range from 41 million to over 50 million native speakers, heritage language speakers, and second-language speakers.
2. Esperanto which is quite possibly the language spoken in more countries than any other doesn't even exist. Sure with only around 2M speakers we're not the biggest language group, but we're probably the most internationally diverse.
3. the combination of these two makes me unclear on what you mean by "parts of the world you can communicate". Is this just a coloring of what countries legally recognize the language you entered? That's.... not really very useful or reflective of what the user of a site like this wants to know.
Almost the whole of Scandinavia speaks English as a second language, and yet English does not highlight any or the four countries. Most Scandinavian people might agree with this general observation that knowing little to no Nordic language can still get you by very comfortably in that region, although knowing the national language is a plus. Second, China speaks Mandarin and Cantonese (not available), and several reg…
I wonder why French doesn't show Morocco and Algeria? In both countries, some 30-50% of people speak French.
Ah I see, these are just "official" languages. Otherwise probably the whole planet would be highlighted for English.
But this information is buried deep down in Google and Facebook and is sometimes outright illegal to disseminate (like in French vs Dutch at the level of Belgian municipalities).
Before Cambridge Analytica scandal Facebook business accounts had access to numbers down to a few thousand with regards to the interface language.
I remember that some 80% of Ukrainians used Russian as interface language in their Facebook, and in Brussels, Dutch was on par with English.
Some people might be surprised that you can communicate with the whole of Canada, in French. But not Algeria?
I'd like to go to Equatorial Guinea. It isn't heavily touristed and requires a visa. Nevertheless I searched it on YouTube and watched some videos and it sounds like an interesting place, and I liked the accent.
No love for Piraha and Ainu :(
> Pirahã is estimated to have between 250 and 380 speakers.
Perhaps it’s there on the map, but we don’t see it, because the dot is so small and hard to find.