The Anglosphere

You have heard lots of times that English is very important. It is not only because you have to pass some exams al school or because your parents want you to get crazy with a strange foreign language... Have you ever thought about how many English speakers are there in the world? Do you know in which countries can you communicate in English? These questions (and lots more) are part of the ANGLOSPHERE. This a neologism (a new word) that refers to the group of countries where English is the main native language or even to the countries of the world in which the English language and cultural values predominate. Thus, we know that there are some countries in which English is the official language and also the language of the majority (dark blue countries in the map below). It means 436,574,289 people. However, the most interesting fact is that this language is also official (not the majority one) in other 53 countries all over the world (light blue in the map), and it means lots and lots of millions of English speakers... Is this not the perfect excuse to learn this language?

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