更重要的是，将英语作为第二语言的人数正在超过以英语作为母语的人，而他们自己的语言的未来正在他们自己手中消逝。
More subtly, as native Anglophones are increasingly outnumbered by people who speak English as a second language, the future of their own language is passing from their hands.
英语已经成为真正的国际语言，因为把英语作为第二语言的人数已经超过以英语为第一语言或母语的人数。
English has become a truly international language with more speakers of English as a second language than as a first or mother tongue.
遥遥领先：以中文普通话作为母语的人数是世界上最多的，有8.45亿，是英语母语者的2.5倍。
Still the one: Mandarin is the long-standing champ among world languages with 845 million native speakers, about 2.5 times as many as English.
在首都810名以英语为母语的教学助理中，仅有303名，或者37.4%的人，持有tesol(教授英语作为第二语言)证书。
Among 810 native English-speakers who teach as assistants in the capital city, only 303, or 37.4 percent, hold certificates for Teaching English to speakers of Other Languages (TESOL).
其中，约4亿的人以英语为母语，另外还有同样数目的人把英语作为第二语言熟练使用。
That includes around 400m who speak it as their mother tongue and about the same number who speak it fluently as their second language.
其中，约4亿的人以英语为母语，另外还有同样数目的人把英语作为第二语言熟练使用。
That includes around 400m who speak it as their mother tongue and about the same number who speak it fluently as their second language.
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