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Language

Our CEO is supposed to be working on a presentation today, but he made this survey to procrastinate.
What's you primary language?
English 2151 out of 4440 (48.4%)
Spanish 347 out of 4440 (7.8%)
German 338 out of 4440 (7.6%)
Portugese 205 out of 4440 (4.6%)
French 197 out of 4440 (4.4%)
Dutch 141 out of 4440 (3.2%)
Malay-Indonesian 139 out of 4440 (3.1%)
Polish 116 out of 4440 (2.6%)
Arabic 108 out of 4440 (2.4%)
Italian 83 out of 4440 (1.9%)
Philippino 73 out of 4440 (1.6%)
Russian 62 out of 4440 (1.4%)
Romanian 38 out of 4440 (0.9%)
Vietnamese 37 out of 4440 (0.8%)
Chinese - Yue (Cantonese and Toishanese) 30 out of 4440 (0.7%)
Serbo-Croation (Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian) 28 out of 4440 (0.6%)
Chinese - Mandarin 26 out of 4440 (0.6%)
Hindi 19 out of 4440 (0.4%)
Turkish 19 out of 4440 (0.4%)
Urdu 18 out of 4440 (0.4%)
Japanese 14 out of 4440 (0.3%)
Thai 11 out of 4440 (0.2%)
Bengali 10 out of 4440 (0.2%)
Korean 10 out of 4440 (0.2%)
Ukrainian 9 out of 4440 (0.2%)
Tamil 8 out of 4440 (0.2%)
Javanese 7 out of 4440 (0.2%)
Persian 7 out of 4440 (0.2%)
Chinese - Min Nan (Including Hokkien and Taiwanese) 4 out of 4440 (0.1%)
Malayalam 4 out of 4440 (0.1%)
Chinese - Hakka 3 out of 4440 (0.1%)
Telegu 2 out of 4440 (0.0%)
Chinese - Wu 1 out of 4440 (0.0%)
Marathi 1 out of 4440 (0.0%)
Guraji 1 out of 4440 (0.0%)
Chinese - Xiang 1 out of 4440 (0.0%)
Oriya 1 out of 4440 (0.0%)
Sunda 1 out of 4440 (0.0%)
Punjabi 1 out of 4440 (0.0%)
Hausa 1 out of 4440 (0.0%)
Burmese 1 out of 4440 (0.0%)
Yoruba 1 out of 4440 (0.0%)
Chinese - Jinyu 0 out of 4440 (0.0%)
Kannada 0 out of 4440 (0.0%)
Panjabi - Western 0 out of 4440 (0.0%)
Bhojpuri 0 out of 4440 (0.0%)
Awadhi 0 out of 4440 (0.0%)
Maithili 0 out of 4440 (0.0%)
Chinese - Gan 0 out of 4440 (0.0%)
Sindhi 0 out of 4440 (0.0%)
(other) 50 out of 4440 (1.1%)
(no answer) 116 out of 4440 (2.6%)
Which of the following languages do you speak at least conversationally?
English 2977 out of 4440 (67.0%)
Japanese 804 out of 4440 (18.1%)
Spanish 656 out of 4440 (14.8%)
French 550 out of 4440 (12.4%)
German 412 out of 4440 (9.3%)
Chinese - Mandarin 218 out of 4440 (4.9%)
Chinese - Other 166 out of 4440 (3.7%)
Portugese 146 out of 4440 (3.3%)
Arabic 118 out of 4440 (2.7%)
Russian 109 out of 4440 (2.5%)
Philippino 87 out of 4440 (2.0%)
Hindi 64 out of 4440 (1.4%)
Elvish (any dialect) 36 out of 4440 (0.8%)
Bengali 32 out of 4440 (0.7%)
Thai 28 out of 4440 (0.6%)
Klingon 21 out of 4440 (0.5%)
Esperanto 16 out of 4440 (0.4%)
(no answer) 573 out of 4440 (12.9%)
How many languages can you speak at a conversational level or higher ? (including your native language)
on average 2.2 (± 0.7) / median 2 [histogram]
0 23 out of 4440 (0.5%)
1 727 out of 4440 (16.4%)
2 1917 out of 4440 (43.2%)
3 837 out of 4440 (18.9%)
4 235 out of 4440 (5.3%)
5 79 out of 4440 (1.8%)
6 17 out of 4440 (0.4%)
7 3 out of 4440 (0.1%)
8 4 out of 4440 (0.1%)
10 1 out of 4440 (0.0%)
12 1 out of 4440 (0.0%)
13 1 out of 4440 (0.0%)
(other) 1 out of 4440 (0.0%)
(no answer) 594 out of 4440 (13.4%)
Which of the following languages do you most want to learn ?
Chinese - Mandarin 154 out of 4440 (3.5%)
Chinese - other 16 out of 4440 (0.4%)
English 54 out of 4440 (1.2%)
French 159 out of 4440 (3.6%)
Japanese 3123 out of 4440 (70.3%)
Philippino 13 out of 4440 (0.3%)
Spanish 117 out of 4440 (2.6%)
Thai 5 out of 4440 (0.1%)
Arabic 47 out of 4440 (1.1%)
Other - Real world language 383 out of 4440 (8.6%)
Other - constructed (including fictional) language 46 out of 4440 (1.0%)
None 181 out of 4440 (4.1%)
(no answer) 142 out of 4440 (3.2%)