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India , pakistan and bangladesh was a same country (bharat)in the past , after 1947 it divides into 2 country india and pakistan and later in 1971 pakistan divides into 2 countries pakistan and bangladesh
*Bangladesh🇧🇩 99% population speaks bengali but there is only 20% of bengali and in pakistan🇵🇰 45% of population speaks punjabi but there is less than 1% punjabi*
The fact that I'm Chinese, but I live in France and I learnt English and Spanish at school. I can speak 4 of the 5 main languages in the world wow Maybe I should learn arabic now?
My wife and I both speak English and Spanish, which should be good for close to half??? But we still can`t seem to hold a mutually intelligible conversation, hahaha!
@@m.h.a.2404 I guess that depends on why you want to learn the languages or where you want to go. French and Arabic would be a wonderful combination for roaming around Africa, though probably not very useful in the few (large) countries where Hindustani is a lingua franca.
Robert Aldridge can someone explain this? I got 1.5+.5+.5=2.5 billion...that’s only about 1/3? I found that even with all ten of the most spoken languages, you still couldn’t talk to 3/4 of the population but rather 71.5%
I speak English and Spanish, and when I went to Paris, 2 years ago, people would rather talk to me in Spanish than English, in all of the tourists places, I was able to survive with my Spanish, not English. Not to mention Italy, every time I wanted to ask questions in English people would say “No comprendo” but if I say Spanish, they would smile and talk to me in Italian. But definitely, English is the language if you are traveller or businessman or woman.
Spanish will only be very useful when in the Americas or in Romance speaking Europe (Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Romania) but it won't do much in Asia or Africa.
Maybe so, but I heard a lot of Koreans are learning Spanish, also you can see a lot of Korean you-tubers speaking in Spanish, it must be something new and I don’t think you can survive with only Spanish wherever you go, but my experience in Paris was like that, and that is why I was impressed.
@@lissam956 It's one of the reasons I'm learning Spanish; you get to communicate with other Romance speakers which is beautiful. I live in Asia, unfortunately, so it won't be very useful here. Not even in my country which used to be Spanish-speaking (Philippines).
Big Bad Wolf That is kinda the case. Like Paul said, English is the international language. Sure they might not be fluent or speak it on a daily basis, but they probably still know the basics. But regardless, that just makes English speakers look dumb and arrogant. We gotta find a way to encourage English speakers to become bilingual or beyond
I'm a native english speaker and I wish this wasn't the case. It would be rad as hell if, say, spanish was the global lingua franca, or any other language. It would be easy to pick a language then. :p
Native Spanish speaker here. Believe me, having English as the international language makes choosing a language to learn SO MUCH easier xD That way i know I must learn English, and French if I want (maybe German if you are european, like me)
alphabets used among most total # of speakers latin alphabet 1. english 3. spanish 7. portugese 8. malay 10. french han chinese characters 2. mandarin perso-arabic abjad 4. hindustani (urdu) 5. arabic indic abugidas 4. hindustani (hindi) 9. bengali cyrillic alphabet 6. russian
@@ashton622 i was kinda lazy and grouped all indic/brahmic-based alphabets into one family but yes you are correct, hindi and bengali do use different alphabets
I think all the languages are important, but the English language has a lot of support more than others languages, because it is the language of Computers and Technology that most people in the world are touch with.
Yep English should be and it is the International Language that everybody is familiar with, all pilots are required to learn it to communicate with all the towers in different countries.
Don't lie . Lier . You say you speak Chinese ?? Chinese is not even a Language , it's just a Language family name 😂😂 . Lol lier . Bengali people always lie in most of the things
My First languange (national) : Indonesian My second Language (international): English My third languange (school) : Mandarin My fourth languange (learn by myself) : Spanish So I can talk to more than 2 billion people
I am a Chinese living in Malaysia. I speak Mandarin as my mother tongue, speak Malay as the official national language and speak English as the world's lingua franca. I am very glad that I could communicate with most of the people in the world when doing my solo backpacking travel!
@Saiful Pulau besar Yes, he is. 25% of Malaysian citizens are Chinese and most of them can speak Mandarin except someone who only accepted English education.
1-Punjabi پنجابی My native tongue-ماں بولی 2-Urdu-اردو زبان My co-second language with; 3-Pakistani English-Angrezi. 4-Dari-Farsi/دری فارسی (Afghan Farsi) Can read & Understand but not fluent in speaking. 5-Seraiki-سرائیکی/Multani
Chick Norton I agree, but sadly, I think many languages (and also many beautiful dialects) might be lost in the future because of standardisation and the necessity for an international language.
Greenlandic is a living Eskimo-Aleut language spoken in Greenland; it's not a Germanic language like Icelandic or Old Norse. The native peoples of Greenland and their language are related to the Inuit peoples of Canada.
Estoy aprendiendo Español por 8 meses ahora y entiendo todo en tu mensaje. Mucha gente habla Inglés porque es importante pero Italiano es tan bello hablar. Suerte con tus idiomas!
@@sauteedgarlic3237 ¡Me alegra mucho que estés aprendiendo español! Y sí, en mi país la mayoría escogemos inglés como segundo idioma por la cercanía a USA, y además que es un país turístico y muchos escogen inglés para poder trabajar de eso; pero el italiano es un idioma muy hermoso.
Ojalá hayas progresado mucho en tu aprendizaje de los idiomas. Empecé a aprender español hace 6 años, aunque había una época en que dejé de estudiarlo. Ya que mi pareja es de España, volví a aprenderlo hace unos meses, y conversamos casi enteramente en español (con poco inglés). Por cierto, soy de usa. Good luck with your language learning!
@@jw-ws8dz Lo has hecho bien, compa. No es nada fácil aprender español viviendo aquí en EEUU donde todo el mundo habla pura inglés. Saludos desde Arizona.
The huge geographical area in which Russian is spoken and also the mutual intelligibility between it and other Slavic languages makes it one of the important world languages in my opinion.
Me here in Indonesia learns Sundanese (local), Indonesia (National), English (international), and Arabic (Religion). One day I will learn Spanish and Urdu-Hindi. Insya Allah...
Arabic has an growing importance. The religion factor united a lot of people with it. The number of Islam believers is increasing strongly, from China to North America.
I am focusing on learning the 6 Official Languages of the United Nations: English, Spanish, French, Mandarin, Russian and Arabic. I am an American English speaker with a M.A. in Linguistics and focus on 3 areas when deciding what languages to learn: population growth, economic growth, and colonial empires. Population Growth: French [19 African nations], Arabic [Egypt], Hindustani [India, Pakistan], Bengali [Bangladesh]. Economic growth: Mandarin [China - Manufacturing], Indonesian + Malay [banking +business], Portuguese [Brazil], German (strongest economy in the E.U.), and Japanese (very industrious), and Colonial Empires (despite their faults, provided common trade languages): British/Americans -English (English has huge growth in India, Pakistan, Nigeria, and the Philippines) Spanish Empire (Mexico is the largest Spanish speaking nation), French Empire (growth in Africa), Portuguese Empire (for Brazil's huge population+ Angola and Mozambique), Arab Empire 600-1200 (that moved Arabic through North Africa all the way to Spain), Russian [USSR] bridging Europe & Asia, Mandarin as the language of the CPC [remember China has nearly 300 languages]. Best of luck to all language learners!
+Pigger Saluton el Pollando! Tre interesa! Mi estas komencanto ĉe Esperanto kaj mi lernis ĝin per Duolingo-kurso (Mi finos la arbo baldaŭ). Mi loĝas en Pollando :D
Nobody actually speaks Portuguese in Asia anymore, in Macau only several hundred old people know it. Also, I think Japanese is redundant in Abel's list, seeing that it is only spoken in Japan and Japanese people usually learn English. Mandarin, Arabic and Russian are still useful in a lot of places though.
Fatortu Exactly. I didn't put Indian languages in the East list because many Indians understand English and use it on a daily basis, therefore those languages are not that big compared to the other eastern languages that I mentioned. In the case of Portuguese, that language is practically only spoken in Brazil and Portugal. In the other hand, Spanish is spoken in the whole American continent and Spain, and French is spoken and studied in many parts of the Americas and Europe. Portuguese is big but I think that French is slightly more popular.
Having traveled throughout the world I can attest that English is by far the most useful language from a universal standpoint. If a non-English speaker is looking to learn a a second language, English is a good choice. It will give you better access to the rest of the world., and English is only getting more popular. As long as you speak English you can travel easily.
@lvan Big Nob French is dying? Lol Official language for 450 million people , first foreign language at school in English-speaking countries ( except in the USA) in Maghreb, Gambia, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ghana ( pretty soon official language there) Nigeria, Kenya, Flanders, German-speaking Switzerland, Lebanon ; second studied foreign language in many other important countries such as the USA, China, Vietnam, Egypt, Angola, Mexico, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal Colombia , etc...
@@neyougogo9923 Arabic is an important language but useless outside the Arab World , what's more never studied outside as a first, second or even third foreign language. Arabic has just been dropped as an official language in Israël , the same in South Sudan while Berber je nos official in Morroco and Algeria. Kurdish co-official too in Iraq so that globally Arabic is losing ground everywhere..
@@keikoauddy Hola, soy indio, asi que sé la mayoría de los idiomas índicos que pertenecen a las familias Aryan y Dravidian. Sé 10 lenguas arias y 4 dravidianas además del español y el inglés. Actualmente estoy aprendiendo francés y árabe. Y después de eso planeo aprender chino, japonés, ruso, coreano, persa, indonesio, Italiano, portugués y alemán. No es para nada profesional, sin embargo, es mi pasión.
@@ДЖОЗЕФКРИСТО Puedes escribir arabe? Y... Si estas Indio, por que no sabes Hindi? Y si tu lo dices que entiendes cuatro dravidian linguas, yo puedo decir que yo se 5 mas idiomas desde este del India, Assamese, Chakma, hajong, Nagamese y bishnupriya manipuri.
ls there a chance of making clips on the languages of Thai, Czech and Yiddish? And what about the small minority languages of Europe, such as Wendish, Sardic, Languedoc, Breton, Romany and the Lapp (Saami) languages?
A mi me gusta español. Es la lengua no1 de mi corazón! Y también es muy exitoso! Vivo en Polonia y hace unos 20 años el español era algo como ''un idioma exótico'' que casi nadie conocía. Luego, se presentaron las primeras telenovelas, peliculas, la música latina entró y... BANG!!! Hoy en día es una de las más populares lenguas extranjeras, cada escuela de idiomas ofrece clases de español.
Gran eleccion amigo, en Latinoamérica estamos felices de que en Europa del Este quieran aprender el español por las telenovelas, canciones y otras cosas mas, esto me pone feliz y orgulloso por tu desicion
mysteriousDSF Yeah, it’s always Latin American Spanish vs Castilian Spanish but I’m often wondering how Equatorial Guinean Spanish compares and contrasts with them too, considering it’s _non-existent_ in terms of when it has been talked about in my Spanish courses, LOL. It’s far away from both regions, I know, that’s probably why they don’t talk about it, but...I suppose I would like to know. Maybe I will find out for myself, then.
Guniea Bissau speaks portuguese. Equatorial Guniea speaks spanish and portuguese. They joined the lusofonic commonwealt recently. But they are two diffrent countrys. Don't confuse!
Eu sou falante nativo de espanhol mas agora estou estudando a língua portuguesa e só posso dizer una coisa, ese idioma é maravilhoso. Espero que vocé faça um vídeo sobre as semelhanças entre o espanhol e o português.
Como assim ninguém acha Russo bonito? kkk eu acho uma das línguas mais bonitas, junto com frances, alemao e árabe. Eu moro em Portugal, sou brasileiro, mas eu acho o portugues de portugal mais bonito que o nosso, aliás, o portugues original mesmo é o de portugal
This is an awesome and interesting video! Can you make this a “regular” update? It may not change every year but every few years could be fascinating. Thanks for what you do and keep it up! ☺️
Jaxson Davis72 I want to learn spanishhhhhh I am starting but iwant to know why there are some word variations like come comes (?) como etc. (sorry if I dindt spell it right!O-O) iam guessing that it depends on the words like nosotros los el etc I really wanna know spanish!!! ^_^
Yes but in Paraguay French Guiana, suriname etc.. People don't speak Spanish, and in Brazil 100% of the population speak Portuguese as L1 so Portuguese is the most spoken language in South America
I thought Portuguese and Spanish are very similar and you don't need to really learn it. People say Italian is similar but Italian culture is different to Spanish/Portuguese
RD4590 lol what do you mean "so what?" It's not an alphabetically written language, and because of it there is a serious obstable in its use. Even native Chinese speakers say it's impossible to know all of the Hanzi, it's impractical. Beautiful and gracious as I believe it may be, it is far less sought after for this reason alone. Should Chinese adopt a written structure like the Hangul of Korea, the language would surely boom. But that would never happen, they deserve to hold pride in that beautiful language.
I have watched some of your blogs and wish to express my gratitude to you. Your explanation is very easy going and is easily understandable. Thank you.
I noticed that there was a Spanish speaking country in the every group of the 2018 FIFA world cup. Is it a coincidence...? A: Uruguay (the others are Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt) B: Spain (Portugal, Morocco, Iran) C: Peru (France, Australia, Denmark) D: Argentina (Iceland, Croatia, Nigeria) E: Costa Rica (Brazil, Switzerland, Serbia) F: Mexico (Germany, Sweden, South Korea) G: Panama (Belgium, Tunisia, England) H: Colombia (Poland, Senegal, Japan)
i think is because the South American federation is quite big and most countries qualified to enter. There is also at least 1 country from Europe in each group.
This is a very good remark but that doesn’t surprise me much because there is 5 teams from south America that qualified for the world cup, so it’s already 1 spanish speaking country in half of the groups (teams from the same confederation cannot face each other and brazil is a Portuguese speaking country) plus Spain, Costa Rica and Mexico who regularly qualifies and the newbie Panama. Now it is true that Spain or Mexico could have faced a south American team in a lot of different scenarios, that’s why this scenario is unique but still fairly plausible. The same way we could also imagine a world cup with one french speaking in every groups, with 5 teams from African french speaking countries, let’s say Côte d’Ivoire Cameroon Algeria Tunisia Morocco plus 3 uefa teams like France Belgium Switzerland or 1 concacaf team instead of 1 uefa team like canada 😂😂
Langfocus, my go to TH-cam channel for information about languages, you are doing a great job Paul!. You also inspire people to learn new languages through your videos particularly in the video about anglophones being lazy in that they do not wish to learn other languages and you exhort them to learn new languages - that encouragement is a good thing and I appreciate that! :)
I live in Northern Norway, where various variants of "Sami" is being spoken. There are efforts to promote learning of the biggest variant, called Northern Sami. There are also efforts to keep the other variants alive, but the smallest one, called Pite sami, only has about 25 speakers (L1 + L2) left. In total there are 4 types of Sami language used in Norway (Northern, Souther, Lule and Pite)
Languages List. India - Oh Yeah. bring it on. 3 languages from India in the list Hindustani, Bengali, Punjabi... And these numbers could have been higher if we didn't have 22 scheduled languages and around 1000 spoken dialects.
As a Russian speaker,I can speak Russian fluently as my native language. Besides,it's not a big challenge for me to speak English as I've been learning this language since the first school year. Spanish is also familiar for me as the second foreign language I started learning two years ago. So,I can speak all three of them in conclusion. To be honest,it's absolutely fantastic to understand what foreigners talk or write about.This impressive feeling really relieves my study and makes it more interesting! P. S. Regarding to the question,in my opinion,the most important language is still English cause a huge portion of the Internet information is in English.However,I don't exclude the probability of Spanish and Chinese becoming the new international languages which will be learned worldwide in future.
Arun Bairagi যদি বাংলায় কথা বলতে পারতাম যেরকম TH-cam-এ English-এ সবার সাথে কথা বলি, তো খুব ভালো হতো। আমার English-এ কোনো problem নাই, আমার languages ভালো লাগে কিন্তু মাঝে মাঝে মনে হয় যদি সবাই বাংলা বুঝতো English-এর মতো তো, ভালো হতো।
“Hablo en italiano con los embajadores, en francés con las mujeres, en alemán con los soldados, en inglés con los caballos, y en español con Dios.” REY CARLOS I DE ESPAÑA Y V DEL SACRO IMPERIO ROMANO GERMÁNICO
Almost nobody learn German outside of Germany Austria and Switzerland, in France everyone take English and Spanish at school only French and English are important in Europe
I was surprised it wasn’t on the list.. German is like Latin, Greek, Hebrew.. they are scholarly languages and knowing them in fact can supplement your English! Obviously German is an incredible language on its own
@@finder4235 you are wrong. plenty of people from eastern Europe learn German as a second language. In countries like Poland, Czech Republik, Hungary, Romania, Latvia and Russia German is a real popular option as a 2nd language, even sometimes over English. As for North America, (USA, Canada) German is really a popular choice in High Schools and Universities when you need to pick a second language,
I'm an Egyptian; my native language is Egyptian Arabic; I learnt at school Fernch, English and Modern Standardised Arabic; then after graduation I learnt Italian; and now I'm learning Urdu Learning Italian was very easy as I'm fluent in French; and Urdu was a bit challenging at first but I'm progressing in it as it's easier than Arabic; I tried to learn Persian, Turkish and Spanish but postponed them as I needed to focus on mastering Urdu and practicing more and more Italian; love this channel
Pero si sabes inglés, francés e italiano, entonces en un mes podrías aprender el español. Como español nativo, puedo decirte que el italiano tiene un especie de mezcla de español con francés. Por tanto, no te resultará nada difícil.
I think English, Spanish, French and Russian are the most important, since together they cover most of the surface area on earth and I'd like to travel everywhere. Oh, european imperialism...
MrSkum No use for Mandarin unless you travel to China. It depends what type of Arabic you learn. Moroccan Arabic is very different from eastern Iraqi Arabic
I am Chinese. I live in USA . My second language is Spanish . if you live in USA 1 English 2spanish 3chinese (Mandarin ) 4 Arabic I learned Spanish in Ecuador I love Spanish so much . it is so beautiful language and very useful language in USA . Everywhere I go I can speak Spanish with some one from south American country .When they know I can speak Spanish they like me so much . Almost everyday I have chance to speak Spanish . If I can speak Arab I think there are so many Arab people can talk with me . And Chinese will become very important too .In the future China will become the number economy I think who ever want do business they should learn Chinese .
Loved the second list, I'd like a top 20 on this second one: 1. English 2. Mandarin 3. Spanish 4. Hindustani 5. Arabic 6. Russian 7. Portuguese 8. Malay 9. Bengali 10. French
I can speak Malay as my mother tongue, english and arabic as it were taught in schools and basic spanish since the language system is similar to English, so it easy for me to learn. Looks like I need to learn 6 more languages to understand the whole world.😊
¡Hola! Deberías ver unos pocos de los vídeos en tu tiempo libre. Son interesantes y informativos. Soy de los EEUU pero me encantaría vivir en España. Me gusta muchísima el dialecto de español de España.
I am a Bengali but I can speak Hindi and English and I understand other languages a little bit . Love from Kolkata India 🇮🇳❤️❤️I respect all other languages 🙏
nice video. i would also love to see a list ranking languages by how spread apart the speakers are. for ex, a language may have a lot of speakers, but concentrated in 1 or 2 countries. I would love to see which languages are the most widespread so I can know which is most practical to learn :) EDIT: omg you addressed this at the end 💕
In the late 1970s I travelled around the world as an English speaker and barely got by. Today I am amazed at how much the use of English has grown. Truly it is the language that is allowing people from everywhere to communicate. This is something for all humanity to celebrate.
English and Spanish speaker here !!! Two in the top 3!!! F yeh !!!! How good is that !!!! Woohoo 🙌🏽 Though technically Australian isn’t really English 🤣🤣 and Latin American Spanish isn’t European Spanish BUT that doesn’t matter coz I can speak them fluently and can converse in either language with millions of people ☺️ Thanks Paul for the stats !!! Jamás pensaba que nuestro idioma humilde iba sobrepasar a tantos idiomas mundiales ! Es un tremendo dicho y me siento muy orgulloso de haber mantenido esta habilidad después de más de 30 años de vivir en un país tan lejano de los hispanoparlante!! Recuerdan que Australianos en general solo hablan el idioma inglés!! Además, haberme educado en este país significó no tener razón por qué hablar un idioma extranjero!! Hoy en día veo qué hay millones de ventajas por ser un ser humano bilingüe!! ☺️🤔🤓✌️
Thank you Paul , for making such informative videos and sharing them. You have a real passion for languages and inspire others as well. Kind Regards Ehsan
First of all, i'm a Bangladeshi and proud to see our mother language Bengali enlisted here...... 🇧🇩❤ I can speak 6 languages and they are Bengali, English,Hindi,Urdu, Arabic and Turkish. 😇❤ I think its enough to communicate with the people around the world using these languages.... ❤❤
Congratulations! I believe that in South America and Central America as wel) you couldn't communicate with the people here. In my country for example (Brazil) almost no one speaks English the others countries in continent have the same problems. That's very impressive, I speak only 4: Portuguese, Spanish, French and English.
I speak Bengali, English, Hindi/Urdu, Arabic (only formal Arabic), Korean, Japanese (can only speak, not read or write), Taiwanese (Hokkien). Can understand Assamese and Odia, but can’t speak it yet.
Malay including L1 and L2 more than. 300 million speekers . Indonesia - 260 million (official language) Malaysia - 32 Million (official language) Singapore - 7 Million (official language) Brunei - 500 Thousand (official language) Southern Thailand - 10 Million Southern Philippines - 10 Million
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Hi! It all depends on where you live or your cultural approaches. For instance, I am Colombian. I speak Spanish (obviously), English, and Portuguese. Those are the main languages spoken in the Americas. I am also learning Russian as well.
I would like to thank you for the informative content that’s you are sharing with your audience, I think in my personal opinion - it depends on the purpose of learning the language what determine the needed new language to learning, if I have interest in making business in china I rather learn mandarin, but if I intend to make my business in South America then I rather learn Spanish.
Marhaba. Entebe. Not all South American countries speak Spanish. As a matter of fact, the largest country in square kilometres, population, and Gross National Product in the sub continent of South America is Brazil, a Portuguese speaking nation. In the sub continent of South America you also find other non Spanish speaking countries, Suriname, for example. Masalama.
@@hectorhuerta3331 esos son países pequeños a excepción de Brasil... Pero igualmente, los brasileños se adaptan a hablar Español. No hay de otra manera, se habla más Español que portugués.
Many schools in Spain have started to teach Mandarin as 3rd language, replacing French and German, which were the only two options until very recently. English remains the compulsory second language.
@Mary Contrary I don't know about that prediction, but if that happens to become true, we will be there right in time. Besides, there are thousands of chinese immigrants in Spain and almost none from other Asian countries. We don't do this only to adjust to international economical needs, but to understand ourselves.
Have you ever made a video about most studied dead languages? I myself find a lot of interest in learning Ancient Written Egyptian ( hieroglyphs) and Mayan.
I can speak 4/5 of these, at least to some extent. These are Bengali (native), English (fluent), Hindi and Urdu (fluent), Japanese (survival level) and a little bit of Arabic.
+Valentina Villanueva me uno a tu campaña imperial a cambio de que me nombres duque de Europa. Estudio alemán y francés así que te puedo ayudar a conquistar África.
Although English is rare language in place where I was born and raised, I believe that English is the most important language worldwide, not only do we need to learn it because a beautiful language, but it's also international language which helps us as none native speakers to communicate with the world, I'm from northwest Africa Mali, it's a multilingual country there are about 80 languages, official language is French and the second largest language called Bambara which unfortunately I can't speak, whatsoever, I speak Tamazight as first language, Arabic, French and English, now I'm learning German
The most important languages in the world are (in my opinion) English, Spanish and French, because they are the most widely spoken languages and are used in a lot of countries and very important institutes
as a african i can totally understand my country is English and the neighbors are French and Italian But Spanish is in my heart iam learning for weeks and its doing and one day i wanna go Spanish countrys like mexico colambia and chile honestly i find it the best but yeah English and French are important also
One of the most underrated ‘minor wide spreaded’ languages is Dutch. It is spoken as lingua franca in The Netherlands 🇳🇱, Belgium 🇧🇪 (Flanders, with its capital Brussels, which is also the capital of the EU), Aruba 🇦🇼, Bonaire 🇧🇶, Curaçao 🇨🇼 and Suriname 🇸🇷. Furthermore it is used by many groups of Moroccan, Turkish and Indonesian immigrants in the Netherlands and it is studied on more than 150 universities world wide. Dutch immigrants and their relatives in the US (Holland, Michigan) speak Dutch as their home language.
@@Agent-ie3uv The fact that the Dutch are proficient with foreign languages, not just with English, does not mean that they give up their language blindly. In fact, there is a movement against the Anglicization of society, because language colonialism is seen as an interference that has nothing to do with inclusiveness.
- They speak Spanish because Equatorial Guinea is a former Spanish colony. - They speak French because of the Guinean immigrants (43% of the total population) who once lived in Gabon in the 1980's and then went back to Equatorial Guinea. - They speak Portuguese because of their proximity with Sao Tome and Principe. Also, many Sao Tomeans live in Equatorial Guinea.
lol hey speak portuguese because portuguese is relevant in that african region...and equatorial guinea was a portuguese colony...the spanish arrived later
Laura it’s ok darling, there’s enough of you in the world telling us how amazing French is 🙄🤣🤣🤣 we know !!!! Take a chill pill 😛 I speak 2 languages in the TOP 3 🥰
@@soyderiverdeliverybeaver8941 French population is actually around 68M people... so less than 80M, then add Haiti, Qebec and Belgium, and this number is not surprising
Love Spanish ❤️ Learnt it and now I’m trying to differentiate between the various accents. Absolutely love the Argentinian accent and slang ❤️ Spanish is truly unique and beautiful
Me alegro que te guste. El acento es muy fácil, solo tenemos 5 vocales y pocas consonantes. Es uno de los idiomas más fáciles de aprender y la pronunciación es realmente sencilla.
I think you got an outdated number for French speaker : 220 millions of speaker is based on the 2010 report from the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) (available here, in French : www.francophonie.org/IMG/pdf/Synthese-Langue-Francaise-2010.pdf). And according to this one, this number does include only the speaker from countries belonging to the OIF (cf. page 5). However, in the 2014 report, the OIF got the figures from some other countries (especially western europe countries such as Germany, Italy, Spain, UK, etc.) and the number go up to 274 millions of speaker (2014 reports, in english : www.francophonie.org/IMG/pdf/oif_synthese_anglais_001-024.pdf). So according to your video, French is actually the 6th most spoken language.
Well, looking at the birth rates in Africa. A few years can make a big difference. Same with the Hindustani numbers, which are most likely 700 million+. His numbers are possibly 200 million off.
The second list is much more important imo. The primary reason to learn a language is to be able to communicate with other people. I'm currently focusing on Korean because of my family, but my ultimate goal would be to speak all of these 10 languages so that I can easily communicate with most people I would encounter during my trips... a girl can dream!
For me Arabic, French and Russian can be really good language to learn if what you want is to comunicate easily in a lot of different countries. Excellent video.
Hello everyone! Are you learning a language? One great resource to check out is Innovative Language podcast programs: langfocus.com/innovative-language-podcasts/. If you click the link, you can read my description of the Innovative Language approach, or just scroll down to find your favorite language below the article.
Have fun!
I'm learning Spanish coz I wanna talk to Nadal in his native language
India , pakistan and bangladesh was a same country (bharat)in the past , after 1947 it divides into 2 country india and pakistan and later in 1971 pakistan divides into 2 countries pakistan and bangladesh
In india there more than 1000+ official languages speaks
And i think that spanish and portugués is same
*Bangladesh🇧🇩 99% population speaks bengali but there is only 20% of bengali and in pakistan🇵🇰 45% of population speaks punjabi but there is less than 1% punjabi*
The fact that I'm Chinese, but I live in France and I learnt English and Spanish at school. I can speak 4 of the 5 main languages in the world wow
Maybe I should learn arabic now?
You will enjoy
grammer is a bitch even for native speakers.
Really same too but i don't know Chinese wow may be I'll learn
My native language is Bengali.
I know English, Urdu/Hindi, Arabic.
Currently started to learn Mandarin.
I've learned to kiss more than a 100 language speaking girls.
If you speak English, Spanish and Hindustani, you can converse with 3/4 of the earth's population. Amazing.
My wife and I both speak English and Spanish, which should be good for close to half??? But we still can`t seem to hold a mutually intelligible conversation, hahaha!
@@m.h.a.2404 I guess that depends on why you want to learn the languages or where you want to go. French and Arabic would be a wonderful combination for roaming around Africa, though probably not very useful in the few (large) countries where Hindustani is a lingua franca.
Thats not exactly true, there is a sobreposition of the speakers of those languages. The number of non speakers is greater than 1/4 because of that
Robert Aldridge well I speak only to English and Hindustani( Hindi&Urdu) so I can only converse with 2/4 :( except if I learn Spanish
Robert Aldridge can someone explain this? I got 1.5+.5+.5=2.5 billion...that’s only about 1/3? I found that even with all ten of the most spoken languages, you still couldn’t talk to 3/4 of the population but rather 71.5%
Being an Indian and fluent in Hindi, English and Punjabi, I already feel I can communicate with half of the world.
*cries in World Dominance*
Learn Belarusian and become a true language god
From my understanding, Punjabi is practically identical to Hindi, isn't it?
@@Invictus_Mithra no my man. They do sound similar and some of the words are same, but they are totally different. They even have different scripts.
@@Invictus_Mithra Nope , Only Dogri and kangri languages are similar to punjabi and they too have many differences
I speak Hindi, bangla and English, I can also understand punjabi, Oriya, Assamese and nepali
I speak English and Spanish, and when I went to Paris, 2 years ago, people would rather talk to me in Spanish than English, in all of the tourists places, I was able to survive with my Spanish, not English. Not to mention Italy, every time I wanted to ask questions in English people would say “No comprendo” but if I say Spanish, they would smile and talk to me in Italian. But definitely, English is the language if you are traveller or businessman or woman.
i mean is evident they would understand you.
Italian is a romance language.
Spanish will only be very useful when in the Americas or in Romance speaking Europe (Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Romania) but it won't do much in Asia or Africa.
Maybe so, but I heard a lot of Koreans are learning Spanish, also you can see a lot of Korean you-tubers speaking in Spanish, it must be something new and I don’t think you can survive with only Spanish wherever you go, but my experience in Paris was like that, and that is why I was impressed.
PESARO PESARO: there was no need for me to speak English in Spain as I am a native Spanish speaker.
@@lissam956 It's one of the reasons I'm learning Spanish; you get to communicate with other Romance speakers which is beautiful. I live in Asia, unfortunately, so it won't be very useful here. Not even in my country which used to be Spanish-speaking (Philippines).
So thats the reason why its so rare for Native English speakers to be bilingual?
Yeah, they often think that EVERYONE speaks English EVERYWHERE.
Big Bad Wolf That is kinda the case. Like Paul said, English is the international language. Sure they might not be fluent or speak it on a daily basis, but they probably still know the basics.
But regardless, that just makes English speakers look dumb and arrogant. We gotta find a way to encourage English speakers to become bilingual or beyond
I'm a native english speaker and I wish this wasn't the case. It would be rad as hell if, say, spanish was the global lingua franca, or any other language. It would be easy to pick a language then. :p
Native Spanish speaker here.
Believe me, having English as the international language makes choosing a language to learn SO MUCH easier xD
That way i know I must learn English, and French if I want (maybe German if you are european, like me)
Guillle77 Gran Turismo
alphabets used among most total # of speakers
latin alphabet
1. english
3. spanish
7. portugese
8. malay
10. french
han chinese characters
2. mandarin
perso-arabic abjad
4. hindustani (urdu)
5. arabic
indic abugidas
4. hindustani (hindi)
9. bengali
cyrillic alphabet
6. russian
Bangla is fourth.
Latin: Portuguese, French, Spanish, Italian!
Bengali and Hindustani(Hindi) has different scripts.hindi uses devnagari script while Bengali uses it's own Bengali script.
@@ashton622 i was kinda lazy and grouped all indic/brahmic-based alphabets into one family
but yes you are correct, hindi and bengali do use different alphabets
@@MegamikazeMoriko and also Bengali Grammer is totally different from hindi.although some words are common in Hindi and Bengali.
The most important language in the world is: sarcasm
Carlitox b
another one that is nowadays gaining a lot of power is: memes.
And gossip the third language
I speak better German than sarcasm Tbh... I suck at German i can barely make a sentence..
Carlitox b Lmao totally right
Carlitox b I agree 👏👏
I think all the languages are important, but the English language has a lot of support more than others languages, because it is the language of Computers and Technology that most people in the world are touch with.
amoz 999 ,Yeah. It is so overrated.
@@PSH558 "Overrated" what the fuck does that eve mean? Lol. Shut the hell up.
Yep English should be and it is the International Language that everybody is familiar with, all pilots are required to learn it to communicate with all the towers in different countries.
@@alienlatino2945 latino crirs in spanglish😂🤣
- Top 10 languages spoken on the internet
- Top 10 languages spoken on youtube
I expect results could be interesting
U can find answer in wikipedia as I've done
@@zaragozamoralecione9846 r/wooosh
@@zaragozamoralecione9846 tell me
Of course English
Internet : Arabic, because porn :P
Yourtube : it's an American company, so English.
I am Indian and I can speak Hindi, English, Marathi, And now I am learning Japanese 😉🇮🇳
Even me
Good luck poor india, love from Japan 🇯🇵
@@mongoldiscipline what do you mean by 'poor India'? 😑😡
@frederick Chua good luck👍
Very nice!! Greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷
I can speak chinese,Bengali,hindi,English & urdu.
Proud to be a Bangladeshi🇧🇩🇧🇩
Excellent from Kolkata India 🇮🇳❤️
A myth
It makes you proud.not bangladesh
Don't lie . Lier . You say you speak Chinese ?? Chinese is not even a Language , it's just a Language family name 😂😂 . Lol lier . Bengali people always lie in most of the things
How did you learn Mandarin?
My First languange (national) : Indonesian
My second Language (international): English
My third languange (school) : Mandarin
My fourth languange (learn by myself) : Spanish
So I can talk to more than 2 billion people
Add Hindi and you might be able to speak to 80% people in the world
My first language is Mandarin
My second language is Fuzhounese
My third language is English
My fourth language is Spanish
My fifth language is French
Damm :O
Is mandarin compulsory in Indonesia ?
@Ben Raymond what languages can you speak?
I am a Chinese living in Malaysia. I speak Mandarin as my mother tongue, speak Malay as the official national language and speak English as the world's lingua franca.
I am very glad that I could communicate with most of the people in the world when doing my solo backpacking travel!
Ryancy_94 大马人？
You need to learn Spanish!
@@CalanYes hii from punjab , and wants to learn Chinese as 4th language 😄
@Saiful Pulau besar Yes, he is. 25% of Malaysian citizens are Chinese and most of them can speak Mandarin except someone who only accepted English education.
Shouldn't your mother tongue be hokkien?
1 中文
2 Español
3 English
4 हिंदुस्तानी
5 عربى
6 Português
7 বাঙালি
8 русский
9 日本語
10 ਪੰਜਾਬੀ
বাংলা not বাঙালি
বাঙালী means people who spoke Bangla
From Punjab 💓
Punjabi💜
1-Punjabi پنجابی
My native tongue-ماں بولی
2-Urdu-اردو زبان
My co-second language with;
3-Pakistani English-Angrezi.
4-Dari-Farsi/دری فارسی (Afghan Farsi)
Can read & Understand but not fluent in speaking.
5-Seraiki-سرائیکی/Multani
@@faetech6235 Bengali :D
Funny Spanish sentence:
¿Cómo como como Como?
That can mean "how how how how"
Or "how do I eat like Como?" :)
geminix365 in portuguese there is some cool sentences in this style, is pretty cool
in portuguese its similar, but without the "ó" in the first como,so its "como como como como?"
Lmaooo
lol
Thanks for sharing
one way this joke could be told in Portuguese would be:
-Pó po pó? (Posso por pó?)
-Pó po. (Pode por)
-Can I put the powder?
-You can.
I speak
English ,Spanish and Portuguese
Living in both USA and Mexico but travel to Brazil, to visit family 👪 ❤.
Muito legal
Soy Ukrainiano , y tambien hablo en English , Español ,Portugués y claro que Ruso y Ukrainiano..
@@СебастьянКузнецов Hola, una pregunta, ¿el ruso se habla mucho en Moldavia?
I am currently learning Java
and C#
It's very important languages. 😂
Lul learn python pleb
I'm currently learning java too, but real Javanese language. Not programming language 😂.
Where the hell has python ran off to?
i thought you were learning javanese
I think all languages are important and just because it hasn't a lot of speakers, doesn't mean they should be lost.
I agree!
Chick Norton
But it also doesn't mean they are important internationally. That's the truth.
Chick Norton I agree, but sadly, I think many languages (and also many beautiful dialects) might be lost in the future because of standardisation and the necessity for an international language.
Totally agree!
Awwwww guys thanks! Man I love yee lot!
I think the most important languages are West-Frisian, Romansh, Welsh, Gaelic, Greenlandic and Faroese.
Greenlandic or Icelandic? I thought Greenlandic was a extinct language.
Antwan Armstrong People in Greenland speak Greenlandic.
Greenlandic is a living Eskimo-Aleut language spoken in Greenland; it's not a Germanic language like Icelandic or Old Norse. The native peoples of Greenland and their language are related to the Inuit peoples of Canada.
Greenlandic is a Inuit language. The extinct language you are thinking of is the Greenlandic Norse, which is a Germanic language.
+Sjælefred Herm thanks for info
Yo soy de La República Dominicana y me encanta ser hablante nativa del español. Estoy aprendiendo inglés y más adelante me gustaría aprender italiano.
Estoy aprendiendo Español por 8 meses ahora y entiendo todo en tu mensaje. Mucha gente habla Inglés porque es importante pero Italiano es tan bello hablar. Suerte con tus idiomas!
@@sauteedgarlic3237 ¡Me alegra mucho que estés aprendiendo español! Y sí, en mi país la mayoría escogemos inglés como segundo idioma por la cercanía a USA, y además que es un país turístico y muchos escogen inglés para poder trabajar de eso; pero el italiano es un idioma muy hermoso.
Suerte
Ojalá hayas progresado mucho en tu aprendizaje de los idiomas. Empecé a aprender español hace 6 años, aunque había una época en que dejé de estudiarlo. Ya que mi pareja es de España, volví a aprenderlo hace unos meses, y conversamos casi enteramente en español (con poco inglés). Por cierto, soy de usa. Good luck with your language learning!
@@jw-ws8dz Lo has hecho bien, compa. No es nada fácil aprender español viviendo aquí en EEUU donde todo el mundo habla pura inglés. Saludos desde Arizona.
Tourist perspective: Chinese and Germans are everywhere
And Brazilians too
Yeah, go to Miami and see the magic happen!
Indians also
And INDIAN 😂
@@stefcarvalho6416 and if you learn Brazilian Portuguese most Brazilians will love you
The huge geographical area in which Russian is spoken and also the mutual intelligibility between it and other Slavic languages makes it one of the important world languages in my opinion.
No one west of Poland cares
Your point is? (I live west of poland btw)
+Rowan Vermeulen If you live west of Poland and care then you're just a west hating contrarian I guess.
Thindorama Why do I suddenly hate the west? I just made the point that Russian is an important language according to several criteria.
What does Rowan mean?
Me here in Indonesia learns Sundanese (local), Indonesia (National), English (international), and Arabic (Religion).
One day I will learn Spanish and Urdu-Hindi. Insya Allah...
@@akari959 bengali and hindi are relatively similar
Fun fact, this video is outdated, there are about 88 crore Hindi-Urdu speakers (880 million)
Arabic has an growing importance. The religion factor united a lot of people with it. The number of Islam believers is increasing strongly, from China to North America.
It will be easy to you to speak Spanish because English and Arabic is close to it!
@@adfr3d470 Beautiful! It is hard to me to speak English and Arabic because they are far away from my awful ear.
I am focusing on learning the 6 Official Languages of the United Nations: English, Spanish, French, Mandarin, Russian and Arabic. I am an American English speaker with a M.A. in Linguistics and focus on 3 areas when deciding what languages to learn: population growth, economic growth, and colonial empires. Population Growth: French [19 African nations], Arabic [Egypt], Hindustani [India, Pakistan], Bengali [Bangladesh]. Economic growth: Mandarin [China - Manufacturing], Indonesian + Malay [banking +business], Portuguese [Brazil], German (strongest economy in the E.U.), and Japanese (very industrious), and Colonial Empires (despite their faults, provided common trade languages): British/Americans -English (English has huge growth in India, Pakistan, Nigeria, and the Philippines) Spanish Empire (Mexico is the largest Spanish speaking nation), French Empire (growth in Africa), Portuguese Empire (for Brazil's huge population+ Angola and Mozambique), Arab Empire 600-1200 (that moved Arabic through North Africa all the way to Spain), Russian [USSR] bridging Europe & Asia, Mandarin as the language of the CPC [remember China has nearly 300 languages]. Best of luck to all language learners!
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I am a native Esperanto speaker from the Czech Republic and I liked this video :)
Saluton al vi)
+Pigger Saluton el Pollando! Tre interesa! Mi estas komencanto ĉe Esperanto kaj mi lernis ĝin per Duolingo-kurso (Mi finos la arbo baldaŭ). Mi loĝas en Pollando :D
+pawel4099 lol. i understood what you were saying
+pawel4099 lol. i understood what you were saying
I think that the most important languages are:
WEST: English, Spanish, French.
EAST: Mandarin, Arabic, Japanese and Russian.
what about Portuguese?
Nobody actually speaks Portuguese in Asia anymore, in Macau only several hundred old people know it.
Also, I think Japanese is redundant in Abel's list, seeing that it is only spoken in Japan and Japanese people usually learn English. Mandarin, Arabic and Russian are still useful in a lot of places though.
+corhydron111 Portuguese is also spoken in Malaysia( Malacca) and in some parts of India but also it's an official language of Timor-Leste!
The problem with Indian languages is that foreigner don't need them, Indian people speak English.
Fatortu Exactly. I didn't put Indian languages in the East list because many Indians understand English and use it on a daily basis, therefore those languages are not that big compared to the other eastern languages that I mentioned. In the case of Portuguese, that language is practically only spoken in Brazil and Portugal. In the other hand, Spanish is spoken in the whole American continent and Spain, and French is spoken and studied in many parts of the Americas and Europe. Portuguese is big but I think that French is slightly more popular.
Having traveled throughout the world I can attest that English is by far the most useful language from a universal standpoint. If a non-English speaker is looking to learn a a second language, English is a good choice. It will give you better access to the rest of the world., and English is only getting more popular. As long as you speak English you can travel easily.
And if you already speak English you can be lazy and you don't have to learn another one.
Well, I can speak Spanish ans English currently, so I can travel around the world without any trouble :)
You are right brother.
@lvan Big Nob French is dying? Lol
Official language for 450 million people , first foreign language at school in English-speaking countries ( except in the USA) in Maghreb, Gambia, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ghana ( pretty soon official language there) Nigeria, Kenya, Flanders, German-speaking Switzerland, Lebanon ; second studied foreign language in many other important countries such as the USA, China, Vietnam, Egypt, Angola, Mexico, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal Colombia , etc...
@@neyougogo9923 Arabic is an important language but useless outside the Arab World , what's more never studied outside as a first, second or even third foreign language.
Arabic has just been dropped as an official language in Israël , the same in South Sudan while Berber je nos official in Morroco and Algeria.
Kurdish co-official too in Iraq so that globally Arabic is losing ground everywhere..
The most important language:- money
Dinero
Too bad I don't speak Hebrew...
And it is an international language too 😂😂😂🌚
Money is my love language.
That's why MANDARIN is the first
Spanish FTW! I'm glad I speak it. Greetings from the bankrupt island, Puerto Rico
La terra de daddy yankee
greetings from the shitty south america :)
Nadie lol
Rob Lucci True
***** Por lo menos no estoy solo, jaja
Hands up who can speak 3 languages or more :) 🤚!! Amo los idiomas ❤️ C'est bien d'apprendre plusieurs langues ☺️
Puedo hablar nueve 😀
Puedo hablar quince👊
@@ДЖОЗЕФКРИСТО ¿eso tan? Cual idiomas entiendes
@@keikoauddy Hola, soy indio, asi que sé la mayoría de los idiomas índicos que pertenecen a las familias Aryan y Dravidian. Sé 10 lenguas arias y 4 dravidianas además del español y el inglés. Actualmente estoy aprendiendo francés y árabe. Y después de eso planeo aprender chino, japonés, ruso, coreano, persa, indonesio, Italiano, portugués y alemán. No es para nada profesional, sin embargo, es mi pasión.
@@ДЖОЗЕФКРИСТО Puedes escribir arabe? Y... Si estas Indio, por que no sabes Hindi? Y si tu lo dices que entiendes cuatro dravidian linguas, yo puedo decir que yo se 5 mas idiomas desde este del India, Assamese, Chakma, hajong, Nagamese y bishnupriya manipuri.
Esperanto lovers? Wow, those 2 guys might be mad now
LOL xD
:(
xD
Those 2 *million* guys :-P
Triggered!
ls there a chance of making clips on the languages of Thai, Czech and Yiddish? And what about the small minority languages of Europe, such as Wendish, Sardic, Languedoc, Breton, Romany and the Lapp (Saami) languages?
A mi me gusta español. Es la lengua no1 de mi corazón! Y también es muy exitoso! Vivo en Polonia y hace unos 20 años el español era algo como ''un idioma exótico'' que casi nadie conocía. Luego, se presentaron las primeras telenovelas, peliculas, la música latina entró y... BANG!!! Hoy en día es una de las más populares lenguas extranjeras, cada escuela de idiomas ofrece clases de español.
Es interesante conocer que el espanol tenga adeptos en polonia.
Saludos hermano
Me alegro que te guste el español :). Se siente muy satisfecho cuando sabes que puedes hablar español :)
Que bien que te guste!!❤ Saludos desde 🇪🇨
Gran eleccion amigo, en Latinoamérica estamos felices de que en Europa del Este quieran aprender el español por las telenovelas, canciones y otras cosas mas, esto me pone feliz y orgulloso por tu desicion
5:52 in Equatorial Guinea they speak Spanish, I think it was included by mistake. However Cape Verde & São Tomé and Príncipe are lusophones
They also speak portuguese
Guiné Bissau speaks portuguese
mysteriousDSF Yeah, it’s always Latin American Spanish vs Castilian Spanish but I’m often wondering how Equatorial Guinean Spanish compares and contrasts with them too, considering it’s _non-existent_ in terms of when it has been talked about in my Spanish courses, LOL.
It’s far away from both regions, I know, that’s probably why they don’t talk about it, but...I suppose I would like to know. Maybe I will find out for myself, then.
@@an_impasse Equatorial Guinean Spanish is very similar to Castilian Spanish
Guniea Bissau speaks portuguese. Equatorial Guniea speaks spanish and portuguese. They joined the lusofonic commonwealt recently. But they are two diffrent countrys. Don't confuse!
Eu sou falante nativo de espanhol mas agora estou estudando a língua portuguesa e só posso dizer una coisa, ese idioma é maravilhoso. Espero que vocé faça um vídeo sobre as semelhanças entre o espanhol e o português.
dAVID
Russo? Não entendi a piada
VinyZiks a piada é que o Português de Portugal não é tão bonito como o de Brasil. Então parece como o Russo que não é uma língua bonita.
Eleazar Ortiz Yo soy hablante nativo de Português y estoy estudando el español. Es el inverso, no?
Como assim ninguém acha Russo bonito? kkk eu acho uma das línguas mais bonitas, junto com frances, alemao e árabe.
Eu moro em Portugal, sou brasileiro, mas eu acho o portugues de portugal mais bonito que o nosso, aliás, o portugues original mesmo é o de portugal
VinyZiks se ksksks parece que os portugueses engasgaram um ovo na garganta quando falam
This is an awesome and interesting video! Can you make this a “regular” update? It may not change every year but every few years could be fascinating. Thanks for what you do and keep it up! ☺️
Hola estoy tratando de aprender español en Estse momento yo sólo sé un poco, pero espero aprender todo pronto.
Excelente, ten confianza, algún día tu hablaras el idioma español.
Ve despacio amigo júntate con gente latina o hispana y hazle conversación, normalmente son gente muy amigable.
Jaxson Davis72 I want to learn spanishhhhhh I am starting but iwant to know why there are some word variations like come comes (?) como etc. (sorry if I dindt spell it right!O-O) iam guessing that it depends on the words like nosotros los el etc I really wanna know spanish!!! ^_^
Buena suerte!!
Vas muy bien
South america:
Brazil - 47%
Other countries - 53%
Yes but in Paraguay French Guiana, suriname etc.. People don't speak Spanish, and in Brazil 100% of the population speak Portuguese as L1 so Portuguese is the most spoken language in South America
@@neyougogo9923 Nobody cares of a Creole language of Latin called "Spanish".
I thought Portuguese and Spanish are very similar and you don't need to really learn it. People say Italian is similar but Italian culture is different to Spanish/Portuguese
Finder almost everyone in Paraguay speaks Spanish
@@2x2leax more people than you think;) what's your mother tongue?
I think the Chinese writing system is generally going to limit it from becoming widely important outside of Chinese culture. It isn't very exportable.
So what?
RD4590 lol what do you mean "so what?" It's not an alphabetically written language, and because of it there is a serious obstable in its use. Even native Chinese speakers say it's impossible to know all of the Hanzi, it's impractical. Beautiful and gracious as I believe it may be, it is far less sought after for this reason alone. Should Chinese adopt a written structure like the Hangul of Korea, the language would surely boom. But that would never happen, they deserve to hold pride in that beautiful language.
@@jsil_ Can you remember all the English words in the dictionaty?
@@RD-ht6go Don't need to learn new characters to learn a new English word.
@@foxymetroid Can you remember all the English words in the dictionary?
I'm Indonesian, my second language is English. And now i'm currently learning Spanish
I'm Malay, My second language is English. And I'm still learning English.😭😭
@@faizariffin4660 do you want English lessons? :D
Chinese would be more useful in your country LOL
@@faizariffin4660 same bro😥keep spirit💪
@sunny autumn kamu juga bisa Bahasa daerah ta?
In Chicago the most spoken languages are English, Spanish and Polish.
Lol
Hello, hola, cześć!
There’s a large minority of Polish people? Didn’t know that
@@arachnid5206
Yes there is.
@Lord Takyon no there is more poles in chicago than in warsaw
Polish is second most spoken language in Ireland, UK and Iceland
I have watched some of your blogs and wish to express my gratitude to you. Your explanation is very easy going and is easily understandable. Thank you.
Thank you, my friend!
I noticed that there was a Spanish speaking country in the every group of the 2018 FIFA world cup. Is it a coincidence...?
A: Uruguay (the others are Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt)
B: Spain (Portugal, Morocco, Iran)
C: Peru (France, Australia, Denmark)
D: Argentina (Iceland, Croatia, Nigeria)
E: Costa Rica (Brazil, Switzerland, Serbia)
F: Mexico (Germany, Sweden, South Korea)
G: Panama (Belgium, Tunisia, England)
H: Colombia (Poland, Senegal, Japan)
i think is because the South American federation is quite big and most countries qualified to enter. There is also at least 1 country from Europe in each group.
This is a very good remark but that doesn’t surprise me much because there is 5 teams from south America that qualified for the world cup, so it’s already 1 spanish speaking country in half of the groups (teams from the same confederation cannot face each other and brazil is a Portuguese speaking country) plus Spain, Costa Rica and Mexico who regularly qualifies and the newbie Panama. Now it is true that Spain or Mexico could have faced a south American team in a lot of different scenarios, that’s why this scenario is unique but still fairly plausible.
The same way we could also imagine a world cup with one french speaking in every groups, with 5 teams from African french speaking countries, let’s say Côte d’Ivoire Cameroon Algeria Tunisia Morocco plus 3 uefa teams like France Belgium Switzerland or 1 concacaf team instead of 1 uefa team like canada 😂😂
Awesome observation.
Ha! It would be also true to say that there were Arabic speaking countries in each group ;)
@@BiglerSakura Nope.There are only four such groups.There are no such teams in C,D,E,F.
I grew up in Punjab, India and I am well versed in Punjabi, Urdu, Hindi and English. I am aiming for Persian, Korean and Japanese in the next 5 years.
Langfocus, my go to TH-cam channel for information about languages, you are doing a great job Paul!. You also inspire people to learn new languages through your videos particularly in the video about anglophones being lazy in that they do not wish to learn other languages and you exhort them to learn new languages - that encouragement is a good thing and I appreciate that! :)
I speak American English and Mexican Spanish. I love it . I'm so fortunate to speak both of them.
Finally!!! I was waiting for your correction. Spanish killing it 😎😎😎😎
Estoy de acuerdo amigo
¡Viva español! El mejor idioma del mundo
Never surpass English.
+Soy Waz viva!!!
+Alfred84 👌
I speak many languages, English, Canadian, American, Australian, to name a few.
I live in Northern Norway, where various variants of "Sami" is being spoken. There are efforts to promote learning of the biggest variant, called Northern Sami. There are also efforts to keep the other variants alive, but the smallest one, called Pite sami, only has about 25 speakers (L1 + L2) left. In total there are 4 types of Sami language used in Norway (Northern, Souther, Lule and Pite)
انا جزائري يا لي عربي تحياتي له
Languages List.
India - Oh Yeah. bring it on.
3 languages from India in the list Hindustani, Bengali, Punjabi...
And these numbers could have been higher if we didn't have 22 scheduled languages and around 1000 spoken dialects.
I believe that the Dialects are counted or else languages like English would not be that high.
Shows greatness of india🇮🇳🙏
Mohammad Danish , आप का नाम ब्रो.
@KyPlayz true. And Punjabi is also spoken in Pakistan...and I think Urdu is included in Hindustani.
@@justtheletterV274 kya hua bro???
As a Russian speaker,I can speak Russian fluently as my native language. Besides,it's not a big challenge for me to speak English as I've been learning this language since the first school year. Spanish is also familiar for me as the second foreign language I started learning two years ago. So,I can speak all three of them in conclusion. To be honest,it's absolutely fantastic to understand what foreigners talk or write about.This impressive feeling really relieves my study and makes it more interesting!
P. S. Regarding to the question,in my opinion,the most important language is still English cause a huge portion of the Internet information is in English.However,I don't exclude the probability of Spanish and Chinese becoming the new international languages which will be learned worldwide in future.
many russians don't speak english. и это полный ппц. все просят руссификации к игре, а ж*пы поднять и выучить английский не хотят.
Iam Proud to be iam Bangladeshi hindu 🕉🇧🇩
Jai Bangla jai Bengali.. জয় বাংলা জয় বঙ্গবন্ধু শেখ হাসিনা। ।🇧🇩🕉🕉🕉🚩
That's cool, my parents are Bangladeshi while I was born and raised an Indian and am thinking of converting to Hinduism soon.
Jai Bangla
Amar Sonar Bangla aami tomai bhalobasi
Love from West Bengal
Arun Bairagi যদি বাংলায় কথা বলতে পারতাম যেরকম TH-cam-এ English-এ সবার সাথে কথা বলি, তো খুব ভালো হতো। আমার English-এ কোনো problem নাই, আমার languages ভালো লাগে কিন্তু মাঝে মাঝে মনে হয় যদি সবাই বাংলা বুঝতো English-এর মতো তো, ভালো হতো।
Bhai ami o bangali hindu kolkata e thaki, bangladeshi hundu der life kamon?
I am from bangladesh and I am a proud Muslim😌
Somos el segundo idioma mas hablado del mundo, Excelente Viva el idioma Español !!!!!
“Hablo en italiano con los embajadores, en francés con las mujeres, en alemán con los soldados, en inglés con los caballos, y en español con Dios.”
REY CARLOS I DE ESPAÑA Y V DEL SACRO IMPERIO ROMANO GERMÁNICO
Una frase muy famosa del rey Carlos I de España
Tienes razon !!!
Idioma**
hablo castellano xD
From a European perspective, GERMAN is a very important language.
Almost nobody learn German outside of Germany Austria and Switzerland, in France everyone take English and Spanish at school only French and English are important in Europe
Only English. Nobody learns French.
@@Jon-mh9lk maybe in your country but In the world it's the second most learn language. The first in Africa, Canada, and the second in Europe and USA
I was surprised it wasn’t on the list.. German is like Latin, Greek, Hebrew.. they are scholarly languages and knowing them in fact can supplement your English! Obviously German is an incredible language on its own
@@finder4235 you are wrong. plenty of people from eastern Europe learn German as a second language. In countries like Poland, Czech Republik, Hungary, Romania, Latvia and Russia German is a real popular option as a 2nd language, even sometimes over English.
As for North America, (USA, Canada) German is really a popular choice in High Schools and Universities when you need to pick a second language,
Bahasa spoken in Indonesia, Malaysia, south Thailand, south philipines, Brunei, and singapore. Indonesia have 250 m people.
-_- no, no its Bahasa Indonesia
Bahasa is spoken everywhere, it means Language, Idiot!.
You mean Bahasa Melayu right?
I'm an Egyptian; my native language is Egyptian Arabic; I learnt at school Fernch, English and Modern Standardised Arabic; then after graduation I learnt Italian; and now I'm learning Urdu
Learning Italian was very easy as I'm fluent in French; and Urdu was a bit challenging at first but I'm progressing in it as it's easier than Arabic; I tried to learn Persian, Turkish and Spanish but postponed them as I needed to focus on mastering Urdu and practicing more and more Italian; love this channel
Pero si sabes inglés, francés e italiano, entonces en un mes podrías aprender el español. Como español nativo, puedo decirte que el italiano tiene un especie de mezcla de español con francés. Por tanto, no te resultará nada difícil.
I think English, Spanish, French and Russian are the most important, since together they cover most of the surface area on earth and I'd like to travel everywhere. Oh, european imperialism...
add Mandarin and you will be an Language speaking Overlord
What about Arabic and Islamic imperialism? loll
aortablue no1 in europe cares
+TheBongoJeff they will soon as Arabs/Islam will takeover and then ruin Europe.
adwaye sigh
I am Brazilian, I speak Portuguese, Spanish, English and I'm learning French
too easy. Learn hard languages like Chinese and Arabic
Gustavo Facincani Dourado come on man! Be quadrilingual!
MrSkum No use for Mandarin unless you travel to China. It depends what type of Arabic you learn. Moroccan Arabic is very different from eastern Iraqi Arabic
@@TheSkum i know i speak both togetger with korean and japanese but only speak french and english from her choices
@@ryantheroman4331 china is starting to be taught in school. It is very influential at the moment
Comments be like:
I am an alien from Jupiter and I speak 200 languages so I am planning to dominate the world.
Currently learning my fourth language(Spanish),and I fluently speak Armenian,English and Russian.
Hovhannes Hovhannisyan I fluently speak Burmese Chinese English and currently learning Japanese
hey, how similar are Armenian from your own experience?
I am Chinese. I live in USA . My second language is Spanish .
if you live in USA
1 English
2spanish
3chinese (Mandarin )
4 Arabic
I learned Spanish in Ecuador I love Spanish so much . it is so beautiful language and very useful language in USA . Everywhere I go I can speak Spanish with some one from south American country .When they know I can speak Spanish they like me so much . Almost everyday I have chance to speak Spanish . If I can speak Arab I think there are so many Arab people can talk with me . And Chinese will become very important too .In the future China will become the number economy I think who ever want do business they should learn Chinese .
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How many Chinese live in US?
And why there is no French on your list?
Lol. Spanish contains rhotic 'R', eastern asian cant even pronounce it!
A chinese....who knows spanish? Chinese can barely spring an english sentence together.
A. Stab "R" for us Filipinos is easy though
Loved the second list, I'd like a top 20 on this second one:
1. English
2. Mandarin
3. Spanish
4. Hindustani
5. Arabic
6. Russian
7. Portuguese
8. Malay
9. Bengali
10. French
English is used in India. French is used in Quebec, Canada, but NOT widely used in Europe.
@@wolfgangk2824 about French: it's also spoken in Belgium, Luxembourg, French Guiana, etc... Je parle Français :D
I can speak Malay as my mother tongue, english and arabic as it were taught in schools and basic spanish since the language system is similar to English, so it easy for me to learn. Looks like I need to learn 6 more languages to understand the whole world.😊
@ french guiana, belgium, luxembourg and france are too small, mainly luxembourg. So basically it's still little.
Bangla language my mother tongue
When my English teacher said us to see this video and is the only one homework that I enjoyed :v
Hi from Spain 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸
¡Hola! Deberías ver unos pocos de los vídeos en tu tiempo libre. Son interesantes y informativos. Soy de los EEUU pero me encantaría vivir en España. Me gusta muchísima el dialecto de español de España.
Hiii how are you ? Nah jaja es broma de qué parte eres?
carlos hoces soy en el parte del estado del medio oeste y para ser más específico: Chicago, Illinois. What about you?
@@yeetermcskeeter3499 de Granada en España ; do you speak spanish?
@@carloshoces7602 ey yo también soy de Granada bro XD, saludos vecino :D
I am a Bengali but I can speak Hindi and English and I understand other languages a little bit . Love from Kolkata India 🇮🇳❤️❤️I respect all other languages 🙏
nice video. i would also love to see a list ranking languages by how spread apart the speakers are. for ex, a language may have a lot of speakers, but concentrated in 1 or 2 countries. I would love to see which languages are the most widespread so I can know which is most practical to learn :)
EDIT: omg you addressed this at the end 💕
Absolutely. That would be more interesting to know.
In the late 1970s I travelled around the world as an English speaker and barely got by. Today I am amazed at how much the use of English has grown. Truly it is the language that is allowing people from everywhere to communicate. This is something for all humanity to celebrate.
I agree with you Paul. I taught ESL in a few countries around the world so I can speak from experience. Your channel is by far the most interesting!!
l'm arab🇩🇿. How many people love arabic language here 💖
Thank you for your videos Paul. I enjoy your reviews. Greetings from Italy
4:09 "Sorry, Esperanto lovers" 😂
Proud to be a Bengali from Kolkata, India
From Khulna 🇧🇩
4:21 : "Sorry Esperanto lovers ~" made me laugh so much :D
I like to tease the Esperantists a little. :) But really, I respect their interest in Esperanto.
Kkkkkkkkkkk (laugh)
I speak my regional language, Hindi English , Urdu and also know Punjabi, Bengali. Now I wanna learn Espanol, and Russian.
до сих пор, что вы узнали
English and Spanish speaker here !!! Two in the top 3!!! F yeh !!!!
How good is that !!!! Woohoo 🙌🏽 Though technically Australian isn’t really English 🤣🤣 and Latin American Spanish isn’t European Spanish BUT that doesn’t matter coz I can speak them fluently and can converse in either language with millions of people ☺️
Thanks Paul for the stats !!!
Jamás pensaba que nuestro idioma humilde iba sobrepasar a tantos idiomas mundiales ! Es un tremendo dicho y me siento muy orgulloso de haber mantenido esta habilidad después de más de 30 años de vivir en un país tan lejano de los hispanoparlante!!
Recuerdan que Australianos en general solo hablan el idioma inglés!! Además, haberme educado en este país significó no tener razón por qué hablar un idioma extranjero!! Hoy en día veo qué hay millones de ventajas por ser un ser humano bilingüe!! ☺️🤔🤓✌️
Thank you Paul , for making such informative videos and sharing them. You have a real passion for languages and inspire others as well. Kind Regards Ehsan
First of all, i'm a Bangladeshi and proud to see our mother language Bengali enlisted here...... 🇧🇩❤
I can speak 6 languages and they are Bengali, English,Hindi,Urdu, Arabic and Turkish. 😇❤
I think its enough to communicate with the people around the world using these languages.... ❤❤
Do you really know turkish?I want to learn it
Çok güzel, Türkçe bilmene sevindim :)
Congratulations! I believe that in South America and Central America as wel) you couldn't communicate with the people here. In my country for example (Brazil) almost no one speaks English the others countries in continent have the same problems.
That's very impressive, I speak only 4: Portuguese, Spanish, French and English.
I speak Bengali, English, Hindi/Urdu, Arabic (only formal Arabic), Korean, Japanese (can only speak, not read or write), Taiwanese (Hokkien). Can understand Assamese and Odia, but can’t speak it yet.
@@sheshystar9380 wow
Malay including L1 and L2 more than. 300 million speekers .
Indonesia - 260 million (official language)
Malaysia - 32 Million (official language)
Singapore - 7 Million (official language)
Brunei - 500 Thousand (official language)
Southern Thailand - 10 Million
Southern Philippines - 10 Million
I have Same thingking
0M in the Philippines. We don't speak Malay. We have our own dialects in Southern Philippines lol.
@@joyhavana7785 In Moro mean same ethnics with Sabah, Brunei people they share same culture.
Malay old Writing script.
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Malay Architecture.
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Malay City.
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Malay Architecture compare to Thai Architecture.
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Malay Traditional Costume.
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Malay Traditional Weapon Keris and Body Armor
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Malay Army/Tentera Melayu.
Post Melaka(Pasca Melaka 1511 ke 1880s) Johor and Perak
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Melaka 1400-1511
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Perang Saudara Klang(Selangor) 1868-1874.
/ Klang civil War
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Gedung Raja Abdullah sampai skrang masih ada berdiri teguh.
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Zirah Melayu Semenanjung, di Muzium Negara Kuala Lumpur Malaysia/Peninsular Malay Body Armor in National Museum Kuala Lumpur.
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Gambaran pahlawan Melayu memakainya/Illustration Malay medieval/feudal warrior.
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No. It’s not important in the west to know malaylam
Joy Havana en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malay_language_in_the_Philippines
Hi! It all depends on where you live or your cultural approaches.
For instance, I am Colombian. I speak Spanish (obviously), English, and Portuguese. Those are the main languages spoken in the Americas. I am also learning Russian as well.
Eu falo portugues, entendo espanhol, e ingles
Try to learn French !
It will be easy for you !😉
I believe it's not only me who feels good when Pole says "Have a nice DAY"...
I would like to thank you for the informative content that’s you are sharing with your audience, I think in my personal opinion - it depends on the purpose of learning the language what determine the needed new language to learning, if I have interest in making business in china I rather learn mandarin, but if I intend to make my business in South America then I rather learn Spanish.
Thanks for the comment!
Marhaba. Entebe. Not all South American countries speak Spanish. As a matter of fact, the largest country in square kilometres, population, and Gross National Product in the sub continent of South America is Brazil, a Portuguese speaking nation. In the sub continent of South America you also find other non Spanish speaking countries, Suriname, for example. Masalama.
@@hectorhuerta3331 esos son países pequeños a excepción de Brasil... Pero igualmente, los brasileños se adaptan a hablar Español. No hay de otra manera, se habla más Español que portugués.
@@davec.9894 Sí, nosostros podemos entender Español muy bien, desde que ustedes hablen com calma, y el oposto es verdadero también.
@@umcaraaleatorio4760 Así es. Estoy de acuerdo con vos! 👌 ¡Saludos! 👍
Many schools in Spain have started to teach Mandarin as 3rd language, replacing French and German, which were the only two options until very recently. English remains the compulsory second language.
@Mary Contrary I don't know about that prediction, but if that happens to become true, we will be there right in time. Besides, there are thousands of chinese immigrants in Spain and almost none from other Asian countries. We don't do this only to adjust to international economical needs, but to understand ourselves.
@@violetalar5387 The fact there are thousands of Chinese in your country is not something to be proud of.
You guys cant even speak English. You should focus on that first
You will be able to be more obedient towards your new 中国的 masters... good submissive move!😅
Chinese won't remain a long time as a second foreign language in Spain.
Have you ever made a video about most studied dead languages? I myself find a lot of interest in learning Ancient Written Egyptian ( hieroglyphs) and Mayan.
It's probably Latin. Doctors use Latin
@@kotenoklelu3471 Doctors in my area don't actually talk in Latin
@@ihatetobethatguybut7175 doctors use Latin in thier terminology
Hebrew, it's dead but revival now
@@thankuslay6766 and it needs to die again! DEATH TO ISRAEL
I can speak 4/5 of these, at least to some extent. These are Bengali (native), English (fluent), Hindi and Urdu (fluent), Japanese (survival level) and a little bit of Arabic.
Punjabi 🤔
Why not learning French?
Indonesia and Malaysia are united
Inshallah
@Eskimos yes
Both bahasa are similar to the point that they are dialects
i speak spanish, english and mandarin
i'll conquer the world, at any time....
But you won't conquer a part of Africa ;)
+Alex N. Sorry Africa, i don't like french, you'll miss my conquer :(
+Valentina Villanueva jajaja
+Valentina Villanueva me uno a tu campaña imperial a cambio de que me nombres duque de Europa. Estudio alemán y francés así que te puedo ayudar a conquistar África.
well, I speak malay, english, german, arabic, french, spanish and jappanese. guess I'll be conquer the world😂😂
Although English is rare language in place where I was born and raised, I believe that English is the most important language worldwide, not only do we need to learn it because a beautiful language, but it's also international language which helps us as none native speakers to communicate with the world, I'm from northwest Africa Mali, it's a multilingual country there are about 80 languages, official language is French and the second largest language called Bambara which unfortunately I can't speak, whatsoever, I speak Tamazight as first language, Arabic, French and English, now I'm learning German
Very informative! ❤️
You got a new subscriber today.
The most important languages in the world are (in my opinion)
English, Spanish and French, because they are the most widely spoken languages and are used in a lot of countries and very important institutes
as a african i can totally understand my country is English and the neighbors are French and Italian
But Spanish is in my heart iam learning for weeks and its doing and one day i wanna go Spanish countrys like mexico colambia and chile honestly i find it the best but yeah English and French are important also
@@gaspersnakes
Te esperamos en México 🇲🇽🤙🏼
Thank you for great videos, greetings from Hungary
One of the most underrated ‘minor wide spreaded’ languages is Dutch. It is spoken as lingua franca in The Netherlands 🇳🇱, Belgium 🇧🇪 (Flanders, with its capital Brussels, which is also the capital of the EU), Aruba 🇦🇼, Bonaire 🇧🇶, Curaçao 🇨🇼 and Suriname 🇸🇷. Furthermore it is used by many groups of Moroccan, Turkish and Indonesian immigrants in the Netherlands and it is studied on more than 150 universities world wide. Dutch immigrants and their relatives in the US (Holland, Michigan) speak Dutch as their home language.
Dutch people are proficient in english but still uses dutch online. Unlike indian and philipinos 🙄
@@Agent-ie3uv The fact that the Dutch are proficient with foreign languages, not just with English, does not mean that they give up their language blindly. In fact, there is a movement against the Anglicization of society, because language colonialism is seen as an interference that has nothing to do with inclusiveness.
English
Spanish
French
Russian
Arabic
Are Spoken in many countries. I think these languages are very importants.
End chinese
El problema es to know if realmente es worth deserved to learn Chinese, pero claro, aprender chino solo para visitar China, looks to be muy inútil.
In Equatorial Guinea they don't speak Portuguese, they speak Spanish
+Jose luis Silebo Riaco Yes, but it's an official language there.
+Langfocus is one of the officials languages. But the main language is Spanish
- They speak Spanish because Equatorial Guinea is a former Spanish colony.
- They speak French because of the Guinean immigrants (43% of the total population) who once lived in Gabon in the 1980's and then went back to Equatorial Guinea.
- They speak Portuguese because of their proximity with Sao Tome and Principe. Also, many Sao Tomeans live in Equatorial Guinea.
lol hey speak portuguese because portuguese is relevant in that african region...and equatorial guinea was a portuguese colony...the spanish arrived later
@@neyougogo9923 Portuguese were the first there..they gave to Spain in 1777..have you ever hear about Bioko?
i nearly had a mini heart-attack for the absence of French... then it appeared as the 10th in list #2, thankfully:D
Laura it’s ok darling, there’s enough of you in the world telling us how amazing French is 🙄🤣🤣🤣 we know !!!! Take a chill pill 😛
I speak 2 languages in the TOP 3 🥰
I was surprised theres only 80million native speakers, thats even less than the population of france. And theres without counting quebec, haiti, etc
@Mary Contrary everybody seems to think I'm French, but I'm just someone loving the language...
En fait, si vous avez bien écouté la vidéo, le Français reprendra sa vigueur grâce a l’afrique dans quelques décennies...
@@soyderiverdeliverybeaver8941 French population is actually around 68M people... so less than 80M, then add Haiti, Qebec and Belgium, and this number is not surprising
Love Spanish ❤️
Learnt it and now I’m trying to differentiate between the various accents. Absolutely love the Argentinian accent and slang ❤️
Spanish is truly unique and beautiful
Me alegro que te guste. El acento es muy fácil, solo tenemos 5 vocales y pocas consonantes. Es uno de los idiomas más fáciles de aprender y la pronunciación es realmente sencilla.
@@ivanovichdelfin8797 Espanhol é mais simples que o Português foneticamente, isso é verdade.
You are smart and knowledgeable. love from Indonesia and Malaysia.
I think you got an outdated number for French speaker :
220 millions of speaker is based on the 2010 report from the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) (available here, in French : www.francophonie.org/IMG/pdf/Synthese-Langue-Francaise-2010.pdf).
And according to this one, this number does include only the speaker from countries belonging to the OIF (cf. page 5).
However, in the 2014 report, the OIF got the figures from some other countries (especially western europe countries such as Germany, Italy, Spain, UK, etc.) and the number go up to 274 millions of speaker (2014 reports, in english : www.francophonie.org/IMG/pdf/oif_synthese_anglais_001-024.pdf).
So according to your video, French is actually the 6th most spoken language.
Well, looking at the birth rates in Africa. A few years can make a big difference. Same with the Hindustani numbers, which are most likely 700 million+. His numbers are possibly 200 million off.
Wow impressiv how such a few years can make such a huge difference.
+Ape Hog and the number of native English speakers is closer to 450-500 million. US, UK, Canada and Australia gather close to 400M
+DelToro Perdedor but the number of spanish speakers is also rising :)
True, and it probably is already higher than the number of English native speakers. The numbers are a bit outdated
The second list is much more important imo. The primary reason to learn a language is to be able to communicate with other people. I'm currently focusing on Korean because of my family, but my ultimate goal would be to speak all of these 10 languages so that I can easily communicate with most people I would encounter during my trips... a girl can dream!
For me Arabic, French and Russian can be really good language to learn if what you want is to comunicate easily in a lot of different countries. Excellent video.
+Blake Kaveny Thank you, I still have a hard time dealing with English. Later I am gonna try French but the phonology is too complicated for me.
If you learn latin I think it's very easy to learn european languages...
Güral19 Yeah, learning romance languages must be relly easy knowing the Latin.
+Blake Kaveny French isn't too bad, grammar isn't the most complicated, the pronunciation is what really gives me trouble.