According to this english is not in the top two. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language
"As of 2009, 329 million people speak Spanish as a native language. It is the second most spoken language in the world in terms of native speakers, after Mandarin Chinese." 2010/1/29 Dan Bron <[email protected]>: > The analogy we usually give is to Chinese. When I look at a Chinese > newspaper or sign, I certainly can divine no meaning. So yes, > to me, the symbols are meaningless. But over a billion people on this planet > live their whole lives using only Chinese, so > obviously it means something to them. And maybe that "something" is worth > the difficult challenge to learn Chinese (which is so > very different from English). Or maybe not. Depends on what your goals are. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
