On average, people who use languages in their jobs earn 8% more.

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On average, people who use languages in their jobs earn 8% more.

There are roughly 6,500 spoken languages in the world today.

75% of the world’s population does not speak English at all.

More than 13 million British tourists visit Spain every year. About 30% of foreign visitors in Spain come from Britain.

A customer on the Internet is 3 times more likely to buy when addressed in his own language.

More than 95% of us who call ourselves English are in fact descended from foreign people.

From ‘royal’ to ‘roast beef’, many of the words most associated with English traditions come from the French language.

Why learn French? Europe is the world’s largest market; France is Europe’s second largest market.