Russian is the only official space language

That probably includes everyone who studied it in high school. People over 35-40 can speak it, but younger people have switched over to English. It's an interesting transitional period between the lingua francas.
I had 4 years of Russian, but besides a basic understanding, my speech is toddler level.

>What is Chinese, what is Hindi-Urdu?

>what is by a number of countries (plural)

Constant work goes against human nature

Try speaking and writing it. Damn near impossible.

wonder why they excluded Arabic

Wha'ts wrong with learning russian? By learning it people could get easy access to russian classic literature and also be able to communicate with almost any ex-ussr citizen or navigate in their countries with no difficulties. It also give access to anything that was translated to russian(and only to russian), usually it's stuff from ex-ussr as well.

Well, he's not wrong, you know.

Fugg.

>The Most widely spoken languages*
>*actually just in the amount of countries where it's sometimes spoken, and Arabic beats them at that lmao

He didn't say there is something wrong with learning russian tho, but considering it's one of the difficult languages i guess the amount of work you have to put in simply outweights the benefits. English is definitely more useful, yet 90% of Russians can't string a simple sentence together

He's right...

But with the amount of their russian population it's even not need any specific investments. Just let russians speak russian and any curious person would follow. It's much more easier to learn language if there is native around. It's almost taken for granted you have lots of them around, just let them speak.

also tigers

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In Estonia and Latvia Russians and natives are very segregated, they rarely interact in day to day life, Russians don't want to make friends with Estonians/Latvians and vice versa. Lithuanians on the other hand perceived as decent people by most local Russians and they handled integration of those Russians very well, hence why proficiency is so high, despite having considerably less russkis in % to their total population

it's wrong, they fucked up while making the infographic, the figures in OP are showing the proportion of people proficient in Russian yes but only for people whose mother tongue is not Russian, it does not include Russian-native speakers (which obviously are very proficient in Russian I'd say)

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>by number of countries and dependencies
>Arabic excluded
>an 1 000 000 000 pop country counts as much as a 10 000 pop dependency

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We shit on China for a hundred years without stopping, now we're playing with a handicap.

another factor to take into account is that the source they used (Eurobarometer surveys) are only representative for people with EU citizenship, so the numbers will be way far off for countries like Estonia or Latvia (because a high proportion of people have Russian citizenship, or nothing at all)

>Germany
>German 10%
?

87% of people aged 15 and over with EU citizenship in Germany have German as a mother tongue + 10% (who speak other languages) can also speak German = 97% of Germany can speak German

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based smug grandfather

>97% of Germany can speak German
but again that's only including people aged 15 and over and with EU nationality