About 1.8 billion people around the world ____ English. But only around 400 million ____ speak it as a first language. A lot of people learn ____ as a foreign language in school. English is an official language in many multilingual countries, like South ____ and India, but it isn’t the first language of ____ of the population. For example, English is just one of South ____ eleven official languages and it is the first ____ of ____ eight per cent of the population. But most ____ in South Africa don’t have to learn other South African languages, like ____, Xhosa or Afrikaans, ____ most people speak English as a second, third or ____ language. If they didn’t speak ____, it would be very difficult to find a job, ____ English is the main language of business, politics and the media. And all students in South ____ have to ____ English at school. In countries all around the world, people ____ to speak English as well as their own ____. In Wales, people ____ English and Welsh. ____ per cent of people who live in Wales speak Welsh. All signs are in ____ and English, and every child under the age of ____ has to study Welsh in school. Most students have about one Welsh ____ every day. If they didn’t study Welsh at ____, they’d probably never speak the language. But some students speak Welsh most of the time. They ____ schools like Glantaf School in ____, the capital of Wales. Glantaf School is a Welsh ____ school and all teaching is in ____ here. There are 1,250 ____ here and they must study all of their subjects, except ____ and French, in Welsh. They mustn’t speak English in ____, but they don’t have to speak Welsh ____ of the time. These students can all speak Welsh, but they ____ speak English together. If you ____ in Wales, would you ____ English or Welsh … or both?

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