Learning new languages ​​opens up a huge number of additional opportunities and prospects. Some languages ​​are easier to learn, others you have to sweat.

And there are those who can only be mastered by a very purposeful, patient and diligent person. Are you exactly like that? Well, then here are 25 languages ​​that are ready to challenge you and put your nerves to the test!

25. Tagalog

Austronesian Tagalog is spoken by about a quarter of the Filipino population. Due to the complex grammar rules and the unconventional structure of the construction of sentences is quite difficult to master.

24. Navajo

It is one of the southern Athabaskan languages. Navajo is common in the southwestern United States. It speaks from 120 to 170 thousand people. Navajo has nothing to do with either Romano-Germanic or Latin languages... The lack of points of contact also makes it difficult to study. Navajo is usually written in the Latin alphabet.

23. Norwegian

The national language of Norway is one of the main languages ​​on the Council Nordic countries... Norwegian belongs to the North Germanic language group and is mutually intelligible with Swedish, Danish and other Scandinavian dialects (such as Icelandic or Faroese, for example).

22. Persian

Refers to the Indo-Iranian offshoot of the Indo-European languages. It is used mainly in Afghanistan and Iran, Tajikistan and other countries under Persian influence. In total, about 110 million people communicate on it around the world.

21. Indonesian

For many centuries, it has been considered the main business language in the entire Indonesian archipelago. Indonesian is one of the most widely spoken languages ​​in the world. Indonesia is the fourth most populous country in the world.

20. Dutch

This West Germanic language is spoken by people in the Netherlands, Suriname and Belgium, parts of Europe and the United States. Today Dutch has official status in Curacao, Aruba, Sint Maarten. The language is closely related to English and German, but Dutch does not use the latter's umlauts as grammatical markers.

19. Slovenian

Belongs to the group of South Slavic languages. More than 2.5 million people around the world speak Slovene, most of whom still live in Slovenia. This language is one of 24 official workers recognized in the European Union.

18. Afrikaans

Namibian natives communicate in Afrikaans, South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe. It is considered to be an offshoot of several different Dutch dialects. So Afrikaans can deservedly be considered a daughter of the Dutch language.

17. Danish

The official language of Denmark. More than 6 million people communicate on it. Danish belongs to the North Germanic language group and derives from Old Norse. It is used by 15 - 20% of the population of Greenland. Danish is mutually intelligible with Swedish and Norwegian.

16. Basque

The language of the Basque Country, stretching from northeastern Spain to southwestern France. It is spoken by about 27% of the total population of the Basque territories.

15. Welsh

One of the offshoots of the Celtic languages ​​used in Wales. The Welsh language is also called Cambrian.

14. Urdu

Better known as modern Standard Urdu, which is associated with the Muslim population of Hindustan. Urdu is the national language of Pakistan. It is mutually intelligible with traditional Hindi, with which even his grammar is similar.

13. Hebrew

Hebrew belongs to the group of Afro-Asian languages. It was first used by ancient Jews and Israelites in the 10th century BC. NS. Despite their venerable age, people still communicate in Yiddish. It is official in Israel.

12. Korean

Official language of Northern and South Korea... More than 80 million people communicate on it. It is not easy for an amateur to decipher the grammatical structure and understand all the rules for constructing sentences. As a rule, Koreans do not have any problems with this.

The main language of adherents of Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism. It is a dialect of the ancient Indo-Aryan language. Sanskrit is one of the 22 planned languages ​​of India.

10. Croatian

One of the official languages ​​of the European Union. Croatian is derived from Serbo-Croatian and is based on the East Herzegovinian dialect, which is also the basis for Serbian and Bosnian.

9. Hungarian

One of the official languages ​​of the European Union. It is used by members of Hungarian communities in Slovakia, Ukraine, Serbia, Romania. Belongs to the Uralic family of languages.

8. Gaelic

Also known as Scottish Gaelic. It is the Celtic language spoken by many of the natives of Scotland.

7. Japanese

This East Asian language is the national language in Japan. More than 125 million people all over the world communicate on it. Japanese is similar to Chinese in many ways and is considered one of the hardest to learn.

6. Albanian

Indo-European language spoken by the inhabitants of Kosovo, Bulgaria, Macedonia. Albanian has a lot in common with German and Greek, but at the same time vocabulary its much more extensive and varied.

5. Icelandic

Belongs to the Indo-European group of languages. Developed in conditions of minimal contact with other languages ​​and dialects.

4. Thai

Better known as Siamese. Belongs to the Thai-Canadian group of languages. Almost half of the Thai vocabulary is taken from Pali, ancient Khmer or Sanskrit. Thai has a complex written alphabet.

3. Vietnamese

Officially recognized in Vietnam. Vietnamese language borrowed a lot from Chinese.

2. Arabic

He is a descendant of the ancient Arabic language. Learning Arabic doesn't mean being able to communicate freely with native speakers. The point is that in Arabic a lot of dialects, and they differ from each other almost as much as different languages! Because of this, a person from Morocco, for example, can find it difficult to understand an interlocutor from Egypt, although they communicate in the same language.

1. Chinese

One fifth of the entire population speaks it the globe, although he is considered the most complicated language for studying.

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The most spoken languages ​​in the world

The total number of languages ​​existing in the world is very difficult to calculate, since there is no single approach to identifying dialects of the same language. Conventionally, there are about 7000 languages, although their number is much larger.

Of the whole set, the most common languages ​​in the world can be distinguished, which are included in our rating. They are spoken by about 66% of the entire population of the planet.

10. Persian | 113 million people

(29 countries) opens the ranking of the most popular languages ​​in the world, and is native to 57 million people of Iran. It is one of the languages ​​that has a rich centuries-old tradition that includes popular masterpieces of world literature. Most of the Persian speakers are concentrated in Iraq, Bahrain, Oman, the United Arab Emirates and other countries. In addition, Persian became widespread in Tajikistan, Afghanistan, as well as in Pakistan and Uzbekistan. Persian is spoken in about 29 countries of the world. The total number of speakers is about 113 million.

9. Italian | 140 million people

(10 countries) is among the ten most popular languages ​​on earth. Officially, it is distributed in 10 countries of the world, but as the statistics of these countries show, it is much more. Among them are Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Germany, Egypt and others. About 70 million inhabitants of Italy are native speakers of Italian, and about the same number of people speak it in other countries. Italian recognized official language Vatican City, Switzerland, San Marino, and is also a second language in some districts of Slovenia and Croatia. In total, about 140 million people speak Italian.

8. German | 180 million people

(12 countries) ranks eighth in the ranking of the most spoken languages ​​in the world. More than 80 million Germans are native speakers. In addition to Germans, Austrians, Liechtenstein and many Swiss are fluent. It enters one of the state languages countries such as Belgium, Switzerland and Luxembourg. In addition, German is included in the working languages ​​of the European Union. It is spoken by the peoples of 12 countries of the world. It is owned by over 80 thousand Australians, 400 thousand Argentines, 1.5 million Brazilians, 225 thousand Italians, 430 thousand Canadians. In the United States, it is owned by about 1 million Americans - there it is quite widespread and studied in schools. In Russia, German is spoken by about 2.5 million inhabitants, among whom only 400 thousand are Germans. There are 180 million German speakers in the world.

7. Portuguese | 240 million people

(12 countries) is native to 203 million people in Portugal. It ranks eighth in the ranking as the most spoken language in the world. Portuguese speakers are called lusophones. Portuguese is the official language of Brazil and is spoken by about 200 million Brazilians. It also expresses the peoples of Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Sao Tome and Principe, Macau and Timor Leste. Fewer native speakers can be found in countries such as the United States, France, Canada, Japan, and Argentina. Portuguese is spoken by about 240 million people. He is one of the most significant languages due to the increased economic and global status of Brazil.

6. Russian | 260 million people

(16 countries) is one of the most popular and demanded languages ​​in the world, which is spoken in 16 countries. About 166 million people living on the territory of the Russian Federation speak Russian. This is one of the state languages ​​of Belarus. Also, Russian is official in the countries of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. All over the world, Russian is spoken by about 260 million people. Among all the states that were part of the USSR, most of those who speak Russian are concentrated in Ukraine - about 40 thousand Ukrainians. In the United States, there are about 730 thousand people for whom Russian is native. In Germany, the language is considered native, second or foreign for 350 thousand people. Russian is one of the world's international languages.

5. French | 280 million people

(51 countries) are among the most widespread and demanded languages ​​in the world. Its bearer is about 80 million French, and a total of 280 million people can speak French in the world. Except for France, most of the francophones are concentrated in Canada, Switzerland, Belgium, in many African states, and Luxembourg. French speakers can be found in 51 countries around the world. It is one of the six working languages ​​of the UN and one of the most studied languages, after English.

4. Arabic | 320 million people

(60 countries) is the native language of 242 million inhabitants, and in the world it is spoken by about 320 million people. The peoples of Israel, Somalia, Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, Iraq, Egypt, the Comoros and others speak Arabic. The language is the oldest in the world and is spoken in 60 countries. It is the third most difficult to learn, after Chinese and Japanese. Millions of Muslims in all corners of the planet speak the language of the Koran.

3. Spanish | 550 million people

(31 countries) opens the top three. It is spoken by about 550 million people all over the world, and for 400 million it is their mother tongue. Spanish is the official language of Mexico - it is spoken by about 120 million Mexicans. In addition to Mexico, countries with a significant Hispanic population include the United States (41 million people), Argentina (42 million people), Colombia (45 million people) and others. According to official figures, the UN working language is the most common in 31 states. Spanish is considered the easiest to learn.

2. Chinese | 1.3 billion people

(33 countries) is one of the most spoken languages ​​on the entire planet. Its bearer is about 1.2 billion people of the PRC, and around the world it is owned by more than 1.3 billion people. Chinese is classified as the official languages ​​of Singapore and Taiwan, as well as the official working languages ​​of the United Nations. In Russia, the number of Chinese speakers is approximately 71 thousand. In addition to its prevalence, Chinese is considered one of the most difficult languages ​​in the world, which has been listed in the Guinness Book of Records.

1. English | 1.5 billion people

(99 countries) is the most popular language, covering 99 countries of the world. Its bearer is 340 Englishmen, and 1.5 billion people own it all over the earth. Lives in the USA the largest number Anglophones, of which there are approximately 215 million people. In the UK, 58 million speak English, Canada 18 million, etc. It is one of the working languages ​​of the UN. About 90% of all world information is stored in English, and about 70% of scientific publications are also published in this language. He is international language communication and the most studied in the world. According to some forecasts, every second inhabitant of the planet will be English-speaking in about 50 years.

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14. French

Even though this language is not among the ten most widespread languages ​​in the world, in our short presentation it takes the honorable 14th place, opening our rating. The French language, in addition to being one of the most common, is also one of the most beautiful languages ​​in the world, which is very often called the language of love, just like the capital of France, the city of Paris, is called the city of love. This language is included in the Romance group of languages, has the status of an official language in 29 countries of the world, in particular in Canada, Switzerland, Belgium, Monaco and, of course, France. It is one of the six official languages ​​of the UN and is common in a number of African countries, former French colonies. According to some reports, French is spoken by about 250 million people around the world, but it is native to 75 million.
Many people learn French because of its beauty, others learn it because it is a fairly popular language in Europe and knowledge of such a language will be useful for work and travel. This language is not very difficult to learn as a foreign language. Of course, for some people French will be easier, for others it is more difficult, but many agree that in terms of the complexity of learning it is somewhere between German and Spanish.

13. Korean

Korean is the native language of approximately 78 million people, is the official language of South Korea and the DPRK, and is spoken in part in China, Japan, the United States and Russia. This language is not very popular and not many people learn it in other countries. Nevertheless, in terms of the number of native speakers, it occupies an honorable 13th place in our ranking of the most spoken languages ​​on earth. Most researchers attribute it to isolated languages, that is, to languages ​​that are not included in any known language family... However, some believe that Korean may be part of a hypothetical Altai family. According to some linguists, Korean may be somewhat related to Japanese.
Some people find Korean to be easier to learn than Japanese and Chinese, but the grammar, in their opinion, is still more difficult in Korean. Chinese and Japanese are studied mainly for romantic reasons, because of the desire to get closer to the culture of the east and learn the centuries-old history of the region. Korean is taught mainly to earn money.

12. German

German is the most popular and in-demand language in Europe after English and many people learn it not for cultural reasons or for travel, but for doing business and business negotiations... German is the official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein and Belgium. The language is native to 100 million people and has over 120 million native speakers. German is included in the Germanic group, like English, however German is considered much more difficult than English, like some other languages.
Beginners to learn a language are scared by words that are 2-3 times longer than their counterparts in other languages, many tenses, conjugating regular and irregular verbs in different ways, the presence of a definite and indefinite article, not always the same gender of nouns. Nevertheless, the German language can in no way be called one of the most difficult languages ​​of the peoples of the world, since with the proper approach it can be studied without any special problems, like any other European language.

11. Javanese

There are many languages ​​in the world, but not many of our citizens, in principle, know about the existence of this language, not to mention the fact that Javanese is one of the most widespread. This language is spoken by about 105 million people and is spoken mainly on the Indonesian island of Java and several neighboring islands. It is the largest Austronesian language in terms of number of speakers. It is a fairly developed language that has a rich literary tradition with different genres of poetry and prose, many varieties of theatrical genres. Despite the fact that almost half of the population of Indonesia actively uses Javanese in everyday life, it, like all other existing languages ​​in the country, does not have an official status.

10. Punjabi

This language belongs to the Indo-Aryan languages ​​of the Indo-European language family and is one of the official languages ​​of India. Punjabi is the language of the Punjabis and Jats, ethnic groups in India. The language is spoken in the eastern part of Pakistan, as well as in parts of India. There are about 112 million Punjabi speakers in the world. About 105 million native speakers live in Pakistan and India. While the rest of them live in countries such as Great Britain, Canada, the United Arab Emirates, the United States, etc. Among the features of the language, one can single out the fact that it is a tonal language. In tonal languages, the pitch of the stressed syllable changes its meaning. In Punjabi, a stressed syllable can have three different tonal pitches. For Indo-European languages it `s very unusual.

9. Japanese

In ninth place on our list of the most common and popular languages ​​in the world is another language from Asia. There are 130 million native speakers of this language. Japanese is learned mainly for two reasons. First, the language is studied for doing business, since Japan is one of the strongest economies in the world. Secondly, Japan has a rich and interesting culture that attracts thousands of people and sooner or later makes them interested in the country's language. Japanese is by no means an easy language. One of the main difficulties in learning this language is the hieroglyphs that came from Chinese, but over time, in the process of the development of the language, they have changed slightly.
In Japanese, almost all hieroglyphs have not one, but two or more sounds, depending on which words they are used in. Today in Japan, about two and a half thousand hieroglyphs are most commonly used, while in China at least 3.5 thousand hieroglyphs are used. Japanese is easier compared to Korean and Chinese, but the grammar of Japanese is very complex. There are no tones in Japanese, but there are two alphabets. The Hiragana alphabet is the basic one used for purely Japanese words, grammatical markings, and sentence ending. Katakana is another Japanese alphabet and is used for foreign words and names.

8. Russian

Russia is one of the most important countries in the world, occupying a vast territory in which many peoples live. Rich, vibrant and rich culture and the most beautiful cities the country attracts many foreigners who are also interested in the “mighty” Russian language. There are about 160 million people for whom Russian is their mother tongue. All in all, there are about 260 million Russian speakers. Russian is the official language in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. This is the most common Slavic language in the world and the most spoken language in Europe in terms of the number of native speakers. Russian is one of the working languages ​​of the UN. It is quite difficult to learn, its grammar is complex but logical. Russian can be called one of the simplest "complex" languages.
Many foreigners choose French or German because they are common in Europe. They choose Russian when they want to learn Russian culture, when there are Russian friends with whom you want to speak their language, when you move to live or work in Russia. Basically, they study Russian because they like it, like, in general, any other language. You cannot learn a language by force, it should interest and attract, there should be a desire to learn it.

7. Bengali

The Bengali language is one of the languages ​​of the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family. Distributed and is the official language in Bangladesh and India. There are about 190 million people for whom this native language and about 260 million people speaking it. Some aspects of the language are often different in India and Bangladesh. In most cases, the letter fully matches the pronunciation. The writing of the language is based on Sanskrit and does not always take into account the changes and fusions of sounds that have occurred in the language over time. The history of the Bengali language goes back at least a thousand years, as evidenced by both the dating of the first literary monuments and the data of linguistic reconstruction.

6. Portuguese

Portuguese is the native language of approximately 230 million people, and the total number of its speakers reaches approximately 260 million. It is the official language in Portugal, Brazil, Angola and some other countries. Most of the native speakers live in Brazil. In terms of the difficulty of learning, Portuguese is comparable to Spanish, French and Italian, as it is in the same group of Romance languages ​​with them. There are two main variants of the language, European Portuguese and Brazilian, as well as a number of varieties in African and Asian countries, differing from each other in terms of phonetics, vocabulary, spelling and grammar. In African countries, the European version of the Portuguese language is used with a large number of lexical borrowings from African languages.

5. Arabic

Arabic is spoken in 60 countries of the world, such as Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt and Libya, and in 26 of them it is official. One of the working languages ​​of the UN and belongs to the Semitic branch of the Afrasian family of languages. The number of native speakers of the language exceeds 245 million, and the total number of people speaking it is more than 350 million. Arabic plays great importance in the political and economic spheres, in the field of energy and security. This is a very popular language and people who know it will always be able to find themselves Good work... The Arabic language is one of the five most difficult languages ​​in the world, there are many dialects of Arabic that differ significantly from each other.

4. Hindi

This language is one of the 23 official languages ​​of India, and is also spoken in Pakistan and Fiji. The native language is 260 million people, and the total number of Hindi speakers is approximately 400 million. Colloquially, Hindi is virtually indistinguishable from Urdu, another official language in India. The latter is distinguished by a large number of Arabic and Persian borrowings, as well as the fact that it uses the Arabic alphabet, while the traditional Hindi script is the Devanagari syllabary alphabet. English is one of the official languages ​​of India, but, nevertheless, according to some reports, Hindi is quite a promising language and it may become one of the most popular languages ​​by 2050.

3. English

The top three of our list of the most popular and common languages ​​opens English language, which is the most common language to study as a foreign language. This language is native to 350 million people, and the total number of speakers of it is about 1.4 billion people. English is one of the working languages ​​of the UN, the official language of Australia, New Zealand, USA, England, Canada and some other countries. English in modern world plays a huge role in many spheres of life from politics and business to culture and travel. This is explained colonial policy The British Empire in the 19th century and the world influence of the United States of America at the present time.

English is also considered one of the easiest languages ​​to learn, if not the easiest. However, this language also has its own complexities. In many countries of the world, English is taught in schools almost with primary grades as a foreign one.

2. Spanish

In second place is a very beautiful language that is official in Spain, Mexico, Costa Rica, Cuba and most of the countries of South America. Spanish language very similar to Italian and Portuguese, as it is in the same Roman group with them. Some 420 million people consider Spanish as their native language, and about 500 million people worldwide speak it. It is the most spoken language of the Romance group, with 9/10 of its speakers living primarily in the Western Hemisphere. It's pretty easy tongue to study that in addition to the Spanish culture and the beauty of the language adds to the desire for foreigners to learn Spanish.
There are several dialects of Spanish, but Castilian is considered to be the original Spanish language. Castilian, Catalan, Basque and Galician dialects are spoken in Spain, while in South America there are five main groups of dialects. The first group is used primarily in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Panama, Colombia, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Mexico. The second is in Peru, Chile and Ecuador. Third in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. The fourth group is the Argentino-Uruguayan-Paraguayan variant, which includes Eastern Bolivia. The fifth group is conventionally called Mountain Latin American Spanish. This language is spoken by the inhabitants of Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, belonging to the Andes of Colombia and Venezuela, Quito (located at an altitude of 2800 m the capital of Ecuador), the Peruvian mountain range and Bolivia.

1. Chinese

The Chinese language is a collection of very different dialects, and therefore is considered by most linguists as an independent linguistic branch, consisting of separate, albeit related to each other, linguistic and dialectal groups. In fact, Chinese is made up of many other languages. But at the same time, the hieroglyphs are the same. Since the mid-20th century, after the reform in China, the writing of basic characters has become much simplified. The unified Chinese language is called Mandarin or simply Mandarin, which is called Putonghua in China. There are 10 dialect groups and seven main traditional dialects in Chinese.

Many people consider Chinese to be the most difficult language to learn, more difficult than Japanese and Arabic. Mainly because it uses over 3,000 characters, which are noticeably more difficult to write than Japanese or Korean. The use of tones in a language also makes it difficult to learn. Despite all the difficulties of learning, Chinese remains one of the most promising and demanded languages ​​in the world. It is native to 1.3 billion people and more than 1.5 billion speakers. China is one of the strongest countries in many areas, one of the largest in terms of territory and the largest in terms of population. Nowadays, the Chinese language is very much in demand and interesting, both for doing business and for understanding ancient culture on the planet.

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5th place - Great Russian language

The Russian language is one of the most widespread languages ​​in the world - the fifth in the total number of speakers and the eighth in the number of those who speak it as a native. A huge amount of scientific and technical materials are written in Russian. It is spoken by about three hundred million inhabitants of our planet, and this is 4.5% of the population of our earth. However, only 2.5% consider it their native language. Russian is one of the working languages ​​of the UN. The language is quite difficult to learn, its grammar is complex but logical. It can be called the simplest of the "complex" languages.

4th place - Arabic

The Arabic language is spoken by about 422 million people, which is 6.5% of the world's population. The Koran is written on it. In recent years, Arabic has gained tremendous importance in world negotiations related to energy or security. People who know Arabic are in demand in the labor market today, they receive good salaries. Arabic is one of the working languages ​​of the UN. Of course, the grammar and writing of Arabic are very difficult, probably in this list of the languages ​​in demand in the world, it will be the third most difficult (after Chinese and Japanese).

3rd place - Spanish

Believe it or not, Spanish is one of the most simple languages in the study. Knowledge of Spanish will make a trip to Spain or Latin America much more interesting. Spanish is spoken by 548 million people worldwide. The largest Spanish-speaking country in the world by population is not Spain, but Mexico, where more than 120 million inhabitants speak Spanish. Spanish is the second most spoken language in the United States of America after English. Majority government agencies USA (such as the White House, Government, National Libraries) conduct office work and create websites in two languages ​​(English and Spanish).

2nd place - English

Yes, English is not the most popular language on the planet. More than 1 billion people around the world speak English. At the same time, approximately 1/3 of the world's population understands English to one degree or another. Almost all international, business, academic and diplomatic negotiations are conducted in Shakespeare's language. In many European countries today English is essential to get a good job. Luckily, English is pretty easy to learn. So if you still don't know English, sit down and TEACH, everything is in your hands.

1st place - Chinese

And the first place in today's selection is occupied by the Chinese language. China's population is approaching 1.4 billion. It is likely that in the near future, China is the new global superpower. Developed economy and millennial cultural heritage... To understand 80 percent of modern Chinese speech, it is enough to learn the 500 most frequently used hieroglyphs, and knowing 2400 characters of Chinese writing, you can understand up to ninety-nine percent of the text. Currently, over 1.3 billion people speak Chinese. This is much more than the first three languages ​​combined.

But what about the German language?

Yes, the German language is unfortunately not included in the top 5 world languages ​​in terms of the number of people speaking it. German is in 8th place, behind Portuguese(231 million native speakers) and French(163 million native speakers) - 105 million people speak German. Nevertheless, the importance of the German language, both in terms of culture and business, should not be underestimated - Goethe and Schiller, Marx and Remarque spoke and wrote their creations in German. Germany is the locomotive of the economy of the huge European Union; the maximum number of independent carmakers is located in Germany. Here are located such large companies like Siemens, AEG, Krupps, and others. It should also be borne in mind that the German language is spoken not only in Germany, but also in Austria and Switzerland - as well as large economies, cultural and financial centers of Europe. German may not be in the top 5 most popular languages ​​in the world, but perhaps it is one of the most "effective" languages ​​to learn from a perspective.