What Makes a Language Important Enough to Learn?

My last post about the world’s top 20 languages really got me thinking. I realized that if I spoke the five biggest languages then I could communicate with over fifty percent of the entire world! This thought seemed quite attractive to me. I let the idea roll around in my head a bit and though [...]

The World’s Top 20 Languages

I remember once being told by a former boss that if you could speak Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and English then you could communicate with anyone on the planet. That didn’t seem right to me then and it seems even less correct now. English is definitely the world’s current Lingua Franca but will only get you [...]