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India is maybe 10% of the English speakers on earth.

It's not the population size that's talking.





1 billion internet users, some of whom may have an inkling of how to speak in English.

My father's former property groundskeeper, a daily wage labourer, could speak poor English but he could string a few words together and understand the basic gist of a Hollywood movie, even without much of an English education. Imagine 100s of millions of those people and there's your answer.




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