thanks & regards

vaishali

“For example, as English trainers, we often use the little known fact that the country in the world where the most people speak English is not the USA or India, it’s China.”

Although many people in China do speak some English, and it’s being taught in the schools, and that the fact is there are 5 times the number of people in China than in the U.S.! Still the fact is! the people that do know some English, (or I should say Chinglish) cannot speak it well enough to say, that there are more English speaking people in China than in the U.S.
Knowing a little English or a few English words, dosen’t constitue you as speaking English.
I am a English teacher in China, for two years now, and I’m still very limited with my Chinese language. I still find it difficult to communicate with most all Chinese, because they don’t know English or are very limited with English.
So, to say that there are more English speaking people in China or than there are in India is stretching the truth. Now, in a few years, this may very well be true, as more and more younger Chinese learn to speak English well enough to classify them as English speakers.
Regards,
George A.