Comment by Retric
18 hours ago
Being fluent is a different question, you can dream in English without it being your native language.
first language = A first language (L1), native language, native tongue, or mother tongue is the first language a person has been exposed to from birth
Yes, we understand what a first language is. You should understand why that’s irrelevant to this discussion.
You know, they weren't the one to bring it up and their point seems to have consistently been that the majority of the global population does not speak English.
> You know, they weren't the one to bring it up and their point seems to have consistently been that the majority of the global population does not speak English.
While that has consistently been their point, it's also wrong.
Their bar for "speaking English" is "Native Language". Absolutely no one uses that as a bar when talking about how many people can consume content in $LANGUAGE.
Plurality of the world (25%) and a larger plurality of the internet-connected world (37%, [1]) speak English. (Granted, most of TikTok’s market now probably doesn’t speak English.)
[1] https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/pages/stat/default.a...
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