Well the article doesn’t explain how, even at such an explosive growth rate, French speaking is supposed to overtake Mandarin Chinese (currently over one billion) or English (currently 942 million):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers
oooops, it said as “first” language, I was counting English speakers including it as 2nd language.
Well still, how is French supposed to overtake Mandarin Chinese? Are they expecting a collapse in the Chinese speaking population?
Or Hindi.