Did you know this about the English language?

• English is the mother tongue of 380 million people and another 500 to 1,400 million people speak English as second language.
• English is the official language in 73 countries.
• The spelling of words is fairly irregular. Words with the same pronuncation, can be written differently.
• In English, two words can be contracted to one. For example: "Do not" changes into "Don't"

Did you know this about the Spanish language?

• Spanish is the mother tongue of 329 million people and another 170 million people speak Spanish as second language.
• Spanish is the official language in 21 countries.
• When you know the pronunciation rules, you can easily pronounce every word.
• Nouns are masculine or feminine.
• The Spanish language has both a formal and informal way to address someone.

Did you know this about the French language?

• French is the mother tongue of 110 million people and another 390 million people speak French as second language.
• French is the official language in 31 countries.
• The nouns can be masculine and feminine.
• Words can have accent marks to make sure the words are pronounced accurately.

Did you know this about the Italian language?

• Italian is the mother tongue of 59 million people and another 6 million people speak Italian as second language.
• Italian is the official language in 4 countries.
• The nouns are masculine or feminine.
• In Italian, you can address someone in both a formal and informal way.

Did you know this about the German language?

• German is the mother tongue of 105 million people and another 80 million people speak German as second language.
• German is the official language in 10 countries.
• Nouns in German are always written with a capital letter.
• An umlaut (two dots above a vowel) is used to make sure the word is pronounced accurately.
• Nouns are categorized in masculine, feminine and neuter words.

Did you know this about the Dutch language?

• Dutch is the official language in the Netherlands, Belgium, Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles.
• Afrikaans is closely related to Dutch.
• In Dutch you say “Jij” to your friend, but “U” to your grandparents.
• The pronunciation of the letters G and the rolling R can be quite difficult for foreigners.
• The nouns are common or neuter.

Did you know this about the Russian language?

• Russian is the mother tongue of 145 million people and another 110 million people speak Russian as second language.
• Russian is the oficial language in 7 countries.
• Russian consonants can have a hard or soft pronunciation.
• The nouns are masculine, feminine or neuter.
• The Russian language has both a formal and informal way to address someone.

Did you know this about the Chinese language?

• Mandarin is spoken by 885 million people and is the official language of China, Taiwan and Singapore.
• In writing you do not have spaces between words and every syllable has its own character.
• Mandarin has four different tones. If you pronounce the word with the wrong tone, the meaning of the word changes.
• Words do not have a difference in singular or plural and masculine or feminine words.

Did you know this about the Arabic language?

• Arabic is the mother tongue of 300 million people and another 250 million people speak Arabic as second language.
• Arabic is the official language in 25 countries.
• You read and write Arabic from right to left.
• The Arabic language has one form for the past, one for present and one for the future.
• Arabic nouns can be singular, dual or plural and can be masculine or feminine.

• It is estimated that there are 7,000 different languages.
• Mandarin is the language with the greatest number of native speakers: 1.3 billion speakers. Followed by Hindi (715 million), English (553 million) and Spanish (350 million).
• 75% of the world's population do not speak English at all.
• The more languages you know, the faster you learn a new one.