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hello hola Guten Tag Allah bonjour Nihao namaste stick around to learn languages around the world North America North America is a Melting Pot when immigrants from all over the world moving to plant their roots it's home to a large number of English and Spanish speakers but French Chinese and Tagalog take third fourth and fifth on the list of most spoken languages in North America
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is another Multicultural country where English is the most commonly spoken language but did you know that French is the second most commonly spoken language
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the area between Mexico and South America is called Central America it consists of the countries of Guatemala Honduras Belize El Salvador Costa Rica Panama and Nicaragua while there is no official language Spanish is the most widely spoken language in Mexico and Central America [Music] South America Spanish is the most spoken language of South America with Portuguese as a close second other official languages with substantial numbers of speakers are English and Guyana Trinidad and Tobago
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and the Falkland Islands Spanish and Colombia Venezuela Ecuador Peru Bolivia Chile Argentina Paraguay and Uruguay Europe surprisingly there are over 200 different languages spoken throughout this small continent the 10 most spoken languages in Europe are Russian German French Italian English Spanish polish Ukrainian Romanian and Dutch
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Asia Asia is a massive continent and is home to about 4.46 billion people who speak close to 2 300 languages that's a lot the major languages spoken in Asia are Mandarin Chinese Hindi English Russian Indonesian Arabic Bangla Japanese Punjabi Filipino Korean Vietnamese Telugu and Tamil
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there are over 2 000 languages spoken on the continent Arabic English French Swahili and hausa are the top five languages spoken in Africa [Music] Australia although there are more than 160 spoken languages English is regarded as the national language Oceania also has many indigenous languages though many have been replaced by English and other European languages
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quick quiz what is the most spoken language in the world English Mandarin or Spanish
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what are the two main languages spoken in Canada
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how does the deaf person communicate by writing body language or through sign language
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Mandarin is the main language in which country
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at least half of the world's population are bilingual what does bilingual mean
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adios en foreign [Music] thanks for joining us for more information and resources related to languages head to twinkle.com [Music]
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