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<blockquote data-quote="shilsen" data-source="post: 3013620" data-attributes="member: 198">That statistic is highly flawed. IIRC, the above stats are generated by considering what an individual's first language of communication is. So what gets completely ignored is the fact that a large number of those Mandarin chinese speakers range from slightly to completely fluent in English, while only a tiny percentage of those whose first language is English are also fluent in Mandarin. The population of India is similarly statistically divided into speakers of Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, and so on. But, as an Indian, I can vouch for the fact that not only are a large percentage of these so-called non-English speakers very fluent in English, but English often functions as the preferred mode of communication between speakers of different Indian languages or dialects, just as Common does in a D&amp;D world. Heck, English is one of India's two national languages, for exactly the above reason.If someone did an accurate survey of languages used and included anyone who could understand at least some of the language, English would be the in the lead by far.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="shilsen, post: 3013620, member: 198"] That statistic is highly flawed. IIRC, the above stats are generated by considering what an individual's first language of communication is. So what gets completely ignored is the fact that a large number of those Mandarin chinese speakers range from slightly to completely fluent in English, while only a tiny percentage of those whose first language is English are also fluent in Mandarin. The population of India is similarly statistically divided into speakers of Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, and so on. But, as an Indian, I can vouch for the fact that not only are a large percentage of these so-called non-English speakers very fluent in English, but English often functions as the preferred mode of communication between speakers of different Indian languages or dialects, just as Common does in a D&D world. Heck, English is one of India's two national languages, for exactly the above reason. If someone did an accurate survey of languages used and included anyone who could understand at least some of the language, English would be the in the lead by far. [/QUOTE]

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