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How to choose which language to learn

There are so many advantages to learning a new language. It can be fun and challenging and give you an enhanced awareness of the world around you. It can improve your chances of attending your desired college and offer you better career development and earning potential.

So, which language should you learn? With nearly 7000 living languages in the world to choose from, what factors should you consider when deciding which language is right for you?

Resources

Firstly consider available resources. The internet has helped make available more resources to language learners but if you wish to study with a tutor or a class check for locally available resources.

Number of speakers

If you wish to regularly use your language try and choose one that is widely spoken. Mandarin Chinese, English, Spanish, Russian, French, Hindi/Urdu, Indonesian/Malay and Arabic are amongst the most widely spoken languages.

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Usefulness

It is not all about the number of speakers of a language that will determine how useful a language is to you. If your travel plans include visiting a far flung region where a language is widely spoken then you may wish to ignore the numbers who speak this language worldwide because you are learning the language with a specific goal in mind. This may also be true if you wish to learn a language for personal reasons such as communicating with your extended family.

In terms of career development there are certain languages more widely in demand from employers than others. Whilst English tops the list of importance for employers everywhere there is significant regional variation.

Africa: French, Swahili, Arabic and Portuguese
Americas: Spanish, Portuguese, French Japanese
Asia-Pacific: Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Malay/Indonesian, Spanish, Portuguese
Western Europe: French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Mandarin, Arabic

Difficulty

Modern linguists agree that the difficulty of a language is, to a large extent, a relative attribute. This means that whilst native speakers of language X will find language Y easy if it has common linguistic roots, alphabet, grammar and sounds, those who speak a very different language Z may find language Y very taxing to learn. Looked at from the perspective of English speakers the ‘easiest’ languages to learn include Italian, Spanish, French, German and Portuguese. Those languages which English speakers struggle the most with include Arabic, Korean, Japanese and Chinese.

Choose the right language for you

Considering the above factors will help you choose a language that you will be motivated to study. Whilst there are many French language courses London can offer you, there are fewer Swahili courses. Having said that, language schools like StGeorges.co.uk now offer language courses in most major world languages and many lesser spoken ones, so choose the language that is right for your needs and start learning today.