How many English speakers are there in Mexico?

Question

I'm doing some research for a project at school and I can't find a fixed number or anything that will be a good source.

Answer 1

Well Im from México and I can tell you that teachin english to the kids since they are in kindergarden is a priority to all parents that want a good education to their sons so the fact is that more than 80% of schools in Mexico are Bi or Tri lingual schools or at least they talk English well this fact only applies for private schools...

Answer 2

12,876

Answer 3

At least one million.

Answer 4

"English is widely used in business, at the border cities, as well as by the one million U.S. citizens that live in Mexico, mostly retirees in small towns in Baja California, Guanajuato and Chiapas."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico#Lang...

"Mexico should be accounted for a million English speakers [from the US] at least. There are many sources but this is one of them: http://www.aca.ch/amabroad.pdf "

http://www.nationmaster.com/discussion/g...

Answer 5

Hmm... This is a tough question. It is required that English is taught in all public and private schools at the secondary level. Many private schools start teaching English in kindergarten or elementary school. English instruction continues through the university level. There are also thousands of English language schools throughout the country.

But how many graduates of primary and secondary school can actually speak English? To what level? What is fluent? I would say that something like 35% of Mexicans can at least hold a basic conversation in English. Of that, maybe 10-20% of all Mexicans could be considered fluent. Schools have a constant need to find, hire, train and keep English teachers. There is a definate shortage of people who are able to speak English well enough to teach it. So, I don't think that more than 10% of the population can really speak English at a high level. Out of 103 million people, that means about 10,300,000 are really fluent and confident in the use of the English language.