User talk:PaulCloutier

I have found what seems to be contradictory statements in two different articles.

This statement, "Approximately 375 million people speak English as their first language.[29] English today is probably the third largest language by number of native speakers, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish.[30][31]," was in Section 4, "Geographical Distribution," of this page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language.

It seems to contradict this statement, "As of 2009[update], 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.[1][2" This statement was found in the fourth paragraph on this page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language.

I would appreciate any help to clarify this.

PaulCloutier (talk) 10:42, 14 January 2010 (UTC)