Do Exs. 36-37, p. 18 in Student's Book and complete the table.

World language ranking

Number of native speakers

Number of speakers as a second language

Total number of speakers

Mandarin Chinese

873 million

178 million

More than a 1000 million

Spanish

322 million

About 500 million

English

309 million

600 million

Arabic

Total population of Arab countries: 323 million

Hindi

181 million (Khariboli dialect)

948 million total with significant knowledge of the language

Portuguese

177 million

20 million

Bengali

171 million

20 million

Russian

145 million

110 million

Japanese

128 million

2 million