Is It Fact? The 10 Most Important Languages To Learn
Learning a language isn't easy, but some languages could have a bigger payoff, in the coming decades, for your investment.
The Languages for the Future report from the British Council highlights the languages that will be most important for the country in the next 10-20 years. In deciding the most important foreign languages for the country to learn, it looked at a number of important factors, from the U.K.'s current export market and future trade priorities to the languages spoken in high-growth emerging markets and the prevalence of difference languages on the Internet. Somewhat surprisingly, Arabic and Mandarin Chinese both are seen as more important in the future than German, even though Germany is the U.K.'s second largest export market behind only the United States. And Arabic ranked higher than French, the language which more British know than any other language other than English.
Taking those factors and others into consideration the British Council came up with this top 10 list of the most important languages over the next two decades:
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