Language Throne

The language Spanish or previously known as Castilian is originally adopted from a dialect of spoken Latin. At the beginning of the 218 BC, it was brought to the Iberian Peninsula by the Romans, and after evolving and improving for centuries, today with over 483 million native speakers, it is the world’s 4th most spoken language, after English, Mandarin Chinese and Hindi.

If you want to learn an international language other than the English, Spanish would be an excellent choice as it is the official language of 21 countries around the world.

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Internationally known as the “Romance Language”, French or la langue française has been around since 842. It was descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire and since then kept evolving and changing until it became what it is today.

French is the official language of 29 countries across multiple continents and is one of the six official languages used in the United Nations- it shows how much this language has advanced over the centuries.

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Ranking in the 6th most popular language in the world, German language surfaced and began to develop around 2000b.c when civilians began to settle in western areas of the Baltic Sea. Over the years and centuries, the original German language has gone through drastic changes to refined itself and be the language it is today.

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One of the most popular languages among Muslims all around the world, Arabic has been around for well over 1000 years. It is believed that this language first emerged in the 1st to 4th centuries CE in the Arabian Peninsula and was first used by the nomadic tribes.

After a thousand year and minimal fine-tuning, Arabic is now one of the six most spoken languages in the world with over 400 million speakers. It is also one of the 6th languages used in the United Nations.

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Compared to others, Russian is a new language. It was founded between the late 9th to the mid-13th centuries and is a descendent of the Slavic language used in Kievan Rus. With over 144 million speakers worldwide, Russian is the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages and is the official language of countries like Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine.

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Another Romance language that originated from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire is the Italian language. It developed through a long gradual process to become the language 13.4 million uses today. As it is a major European language and used by more than half their population in some way or the other, learning it would be beneficial if you plan to visit Europe anytime soon.

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If you want to learn the fastest-growing European language in the world behind English, then don’t hesitate to study the Portuguese language. With its immense potential to an “international communication language,” according to UNESCO, Portuguese might prove to be really useful in the near future.

Heavily influenced by Arabic, this European language is the official language of nine countries and used by over 187 million speakers worldwide.

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The Korean language is the official and national language of both Koreas: North Korea and South Korea. Unlike many other languages like French and German who uses the English alphabet, the Korean language has its own script called the Hangul consisting of 14 consonants and 10 vowels.

Even though it is one of the hardest languages to learn, especially for English Speakers, wouldn’t it be fun if you could speak this language and stunned others?

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Even though much is not known about the history of the Japanese language, it is widely believed that this language was originated in the 6th century from the Yamato people and over the years evolved to the language over 128 million people speak today.

Japanese is a very interesting language to learn. It consists of numerous homophones (words that mean different things but are pronounced the same) and uses loanwords from different languages all over the world.

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