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Given education secretary Alan Johnson’s desire to focus on “economically useful” languages, pupils might be better off with Hindi, used by more people than any other language except Mandarin: it has around 480 million speakers in India alone.
Still, would-be entrepreneurs can console themselves with the thought that most of India’s business and technology sector operates in a language they will understand: English.
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