We speak english in this forum due to the fact that English is the most used language around the world, meaning that you can find English speakers in any big city of the world, without an exception. But it is not spoken by a great majority of the world population. Chinese, for instance, is spoken by almost one fifth of the whole human population.We don't use chinese as an international language because most of the chinese speakers live in China.
English is not my natural language, but I consider it a very easy language to learn. I learned it when I was a teenager and today I guess I have an average level of knowledge to express myself using English.
You would be very, very surprised if you know how many people in Asia actually speak English. Just to give an example, there is more chinese students of English than the ammount of american inhabitants.
The second language of Japan and the Asian "tigers" is the English, because most of their business are made with the Ocident.
Probably you will discover that there are more english speakers in Asia than in Europe, or even in North America.
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