Editor’s Note: The following Glossika Review has been fully updated on March 4th, 2023. Getting to grips with any new language is like learning a martial art: you repeat one move over and over again, hundreds of times until it’s eventually burned into your brain and your response becomes automatic. When picking up a language, […]
With nearly 11 million speakers worldwide—90% of whom live in Sweden—one might wonder: why bother learning Swedish? Nevertheless, Swedish is often touted as one of the easiest languages for native English speakers to learn. Additionally, because it is somewhat mutually intelligible with Danish and Norwegian, students gain extra benefits from learning Swedish. The official language
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The Finnish language is only about 500 years old and closely related to Estonian, as both belong to the Uralic language family. Approximately 5 million people speak Finnish around the world and it holds official language status in Finland and minority status in neighboring Sweden. If you’re considering learning Finnish—a language classified as Level III
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Spanish is estimated to be spoken by 470 to 500 million people, making it the second most-spoken language in the world! It is the most widely spoken of the romance languages, and in the United States alone, you will find over 41 million native Spanish speakers. The Spanish language is a useful asset for anyone
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With over 215 million native speakers, Portuguese is the sixth most-spoken language in the world and the second most-spoken romance language. Ten countries have adopted it as an official language including Brazil, Mozambique, Portugal, East Timor and Angola. Portuguese developed over 2,000 years ago and with an estimated 260 million total speakers (first and second
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Swahili, also known as Kiswahili, holds official language status in both Tanzania and Kenya. It is also widely spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and the Comoros Islands. Approximately 16 million people speak Swahili as their native language, while around 82 million speak it as a second language. It is considered to be
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The Polish language, spoken by approximately 38.5 million native speakers and 43 million people worldwide, belongs to the West Slavic language family within the Lechitic group. Closely related to Slovak and Czech, Polish has also been influenced by Latin languages such as French and Italian, as well as German, and uses the Latin alphabet with
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With over 1.5 billion native and non-native speakers, English is the most widely spoken language in the world today. English is most widely spoken as a first language in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, New Zealand and Australia. There are tons of online language courses out there for learning English,
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Arabic, spoken by approximately 422 million native and non-native speakers, is the fifth most-spoken language in the world. As a Semitic language, it is closely related to Canaanite, Aramaic, Hebrew, and Amorite, as well as other modern and ancient languages. It serves as the liturgical language of Islam and is most prominently found in the
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Hebrew is spoken by approximately 5 million people in Israel and an additional 4 million worldwide. It is the only surviving language of the Canaanite family still in use today. For over 2,000 years, Hebrew was primarily used in religious texts and for prayer. However, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it was
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