What is the most spoken language in the world?? and the second most spoken language?

Chinese (Mandarin)
Hindi is next, as it is the official language of India.
Then
Spanish
English
ARabic
Portuguese
Russian
Japanese
German and
Punjabi.

For the next group see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers

Very useful. Wiki is like that.
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by HaoieZ on September 1st, 2008
thanks
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by qwerty123 on September 1st, 2008
dont forget australian.
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by DudeLer 2 on September 1st, 2008
naaa...only spoken by 20 million of us...we don't rank with the biggies....but we're moving in on the US...we're taking over your film industry, then we'll have you all speaking like us. LOL
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by singwell-is off researching a lot on September 2nd, 2008
by the way that sequence is incorrect,english is the second most spoken language
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by qwerty123 on September 2nd, 2008
BTW, I found the statistics online. English is not spoken as a first language as much as you might think. It is only when you add the second language speakers that its numbers go up dramatically. As a polyglot myself, I am more than aware of who speaks what in this world.
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by singwell-is off researching a lot on September 2nd, 2008

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