Most useful languages of Internet

Guest   Sun Apr 13, 2008 10:25 am GMT
I would like to know which are the most useful languages in Internet.

I think that English is the most useful. After that language, Chinese and Spanish are also very important languages.

There are not differences in written Chinese. So, all Chinese speakers (Cantonese, Mandarin, Hakka) can read a Chinese webpage.

At the same time, webpages in Spanish can be read by Southamericans, Spaniards, Mexicans, etc, but also Brazilians and Portuguese people. Perhaps, Italian speakers can understand written Spanish too.

So, if a webpage is written in English, Chinese and Spanish, it can be read by a lot of Internet users.
Guest   Sun Apr 13, 2008 10:28 am GMT
But China is communist and communism is Evil. Communism has no place on the internet.
Jim Wilkens   Sun Apr 13, 2008 11:02 am GMT
1.English

2.Chinese

3.Spanish


Languages % of all Internet Users Penetration* User Growth
( 2000 - 2007)
English 29.9% 28.6 %
138.5 %
Chinese 14% 11.3 %
374.6 %
Spanish 8.0% 17.0 %
253.4 %
Japanese 7.9% 67.1% 83.3 %
German 5.4% 61.3 %
113.2 %
French 5.0% 14.1 %
349.0 %
Portuguese 3.1% 14.6 %
349.6 %
Korean 3.1% 45.3 %
78.0 %
Italian 2.8% 51.7 %
133.1 %
Arabic 2.6% 8.4 %
930.2 %
Rest of world languages 18.2% 8.8 %
431.9 %
Guest2   Sun Apr 13, 2008 11:35 am GMT
Yes. These 3 languages have more than 60% of Internet users. That is amazing!


English: 29.9% of Internet users. Perhaps is more, if you include second language speakers of English.

Chinese: 14% of Internet users. All Chinese languages, because Chinese is the same in all languages when you write it.

Spanish: 9% of Internet users. Another 6.5% understand Spanish, (Portuguese and , perhaps, Italian speakers). Total 15.5% of Internet users.
Guest   Sun Apr 13, 2008 11:43 am GMT
Spanish speakers also can understand Portuguese.
Guest2   Sun Apr 13, 2008 11:48 am GMT
Yes, of course. You can say the Spanish-Portuguese-Italian Internet users are 15,5%. All of them can undestand the 3 languages in a webpage.
Guest   Sun Apr 13, 2008 12:49 pm GMT
only one language: FARTING
Phartologer PhD   Sun Apr 13, 2008 12:54 pm GMT
>>only one language: FARTING<<




but which dialect? there are several versions.
Guest   Sun Apr 13, 2008 11:29 pm GMT
The wettest dialect.
Guest   Sun Apr 13, 2008 11:36 pm GMT
Spanish speakers also can understand Portuguese.

Writen Portuguese yes, but not spoken portuguese.
Guest   Sun Apr 13, 2008 11:50 pm GMT
Yes, but the internet is mostly a written medium.
Guest   Mon Apr 14, 2008 12:25 am GMT
How well do Spanish native speakers understand written Italian?
Guest   Mon Apr 14, 2008 12:29 am GMT
Not very well, I understand write French better than writen Italian.
Guest   Thu Apr 17, 2008 4:29 am GMT
I understand written Italian.
knewman   Sat Apr 19, 2008 3:10 am GMT
Guest Sun Apr 13, 2008 10:28 am GMT
But China is communist and communism is Evil. Communism has no place on the internet.

but china is changing now.