British Council: Languages for the Future
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Re: British Council: Languages for the Future
I did German, French and Spanish at a school under the Scottish education system, which was language geekery indeed. I did not do Latin although my brother did. I believe some pupils took Scottish Gaelic and perhaps some took Italian. I was told one teacher at my school was qualified to teach Russian but it was not possible to fit this in with my existing timetable. I think I went to an above-average school by Scottish standards.
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DaveBee wrote:Speech at the polyglot gathering: Which language is the most beneficial to learn?.
The suggestion @ 24m is: English, German, Spanish, French, Chinese, Russian, Japanese, Italian, Polish, Scandinavian, Balkan, Portuguese.
Does the video go into detail justifying those choices? Or is it just something to do with polyglotting? I'd think access to both people and economics would put Portuguese ahead of Polish, for example.
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He did, and also pointed out that the importance of various languages would be different in different places. Portuguese would be more valuable in South America for example. This talk grew out of his undergraduate dissertation.Seneca wrote:DaveBee wrote:Speech at the polyglot gathering: Which language is the most beneficial to learn?.
The suggestion @ 24m is: English, German, Spanish, French, Chinese, Russian, Japanese, Italian, Polish, Scandinavian, Balkan, Portuguese.
Does the video go into detail justifying those choices? Or is it just something to do with polyglotting? I'd think access to both people and economics would put Portuguese ahead of Polish, for example.
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There's a 2017 version now.sjintje wrote:This report seems to be from 2013. Languages ranked according to usefullness from British perspective.
https://www.britishcouncil.org/sites/de ... report.pdf
Spanish
Arabic
French
Mandarin
German
Portuguese
Italian
Russian
Turkish
Japanese
https://www.britishcouncil.org/sites/de ... e_2017.pdf
As in 2013, the same five languages: Spanish, Mandarin, French, Arabic and German, make it to the top of the table. These five languages appear consistently as the most important, some way ahead of the remaining five.
In the second half of the table are Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Japanese and Russian. Both Russian and Portuguese have declined in importance since our earlier analysis, and Turkish has dropped out of the top ten to be replaced by Dutch. These movements are caused by changes in the economic and political circumstances in Russia, Turkey and Brazil and are not related to Brexit.1. Spanish
2. Mandarin
3. French
4. Arabic
5. German
6. Italian
7. Dutch
8. Portuguese
9. Japanese
10. Russian
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