西欧和北美国家有非常多共同点，尽管它们也有些异常情况，比如惊人的忧郁葡萄牙语(北美国家曾经是西欧国家葡萄牙的殖民地)。

Western Europeans and North Americans bunch pretty closely together, though there are some anomalies, such as the surprisingly gloomy Portuguese.

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然而，英语在其它许多曾经是大英帝国殖民地的国家中也被当作本国语或第二语言使用。

However, English is spoken as a native or second language in a large number of other countries which were once colonies of the British Empire.

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