White papers

Languages in the world

In an age of globalization, our need to communicate with foreign language speakers has never been greater. English has emerged as the new lingua franca and the non-English speaking world is busy learning it if they don't speak it already. So why invest time and energy in learning another language, when English is enough to be understood almost everywhere, and a smartphone enables us to talk to anyone? This white paper reviews the language landscape, with a focus on popular European languages and the reasons, past and present, for learning them.

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