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English Speaking from Scratch
English is the dominant business language and it has become almost a necessity for people to speak English if they are to enter a global workforce.English is the third largest language by number of native speakers, after Mandarin and Spanish.
Approximately 330 to 360 million people speak English as their first language.The United States has the most native speakers at 258 million. Additionally, there are 62 million native English speakers in the United Kingdom, 32 million in Canada, 20 million in Australia, and 4.5 million in New Zealand. Other countries also use English as their primary and official languages.
English is studied most often in the European Union, and the perception of the usefulness of foreign languages among Europeans is 67 percent in favour of English ahead of 17 percent for German and 16 percent for French (as of 2012).