Poll: In your opinion, which language does every country want to learn? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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English is considered the most frequently spoken language in the world, so probably it is the most learned language these days, but I hate generalizations and I can’t have an opinion on what I don’t know…
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English is often considered the most widely desired language to learn across many countries. Its status as the global language for business, science, technology, and international communication makes it a top priority for non-native speakers worldwide. English proficiency opens up opportunities in education, career advancement, travel, and accessing a vast amount of information online.
However, other languages like Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, and French also attract significant inter... See more English is often considered the most widely desired language to learn across many countries. Its status as the global language for business, science, technology, and international communication makes it a top priority for non-native speakers worldwide. English proficiency opens up opportunities in education, career advancement, travel, and accessing a vast amount of information online.
However, other languages like Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, and French also attract significant interest, depending on regional needs and economic ties. For example, Mandarin is increasingly sought after due to China’s economic influence, and Spanish is popular in the Americas. ▲ Collapse
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
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carolyao0827 wrote:
English is often considered the most widely desired language to learn across many countries. Its status as the global language for business, science, technology, and international communication makes it a top priority for non-native speakers worldwide. English proficiency opens up opportunities in education, career advancement, travel, and accessing a vast amount of information online.
However, other languages like Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, and French also attract significant interest, depending on regional needs and economic ties. For example, Mandarin is increasingly sought after due to China’s economic influence, and Spanish is popular in the Americas.
On a 0-10 scale, how easy is it to recognize AI/GPT writings these days?
On topic, how can a country learn a language? You mean a nation, citizens?
I really don’t know the answer to this question.
[Edited at 2024-09-08 08:28 GMT]
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expressisverbis
Portugal
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| I don't have an opinion... | Sep 8 |
'Every country' is quite broad and implies a global desire across all nations, so how can I know which language does a country want to learn?!
The desire to learn a particular language is influenced by several factors, including economic, cultural, historical and educational factors. Beyond that, it's something very personal.
It's challenging to generalize the learning of a language across all countries.
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According to the data published by Unesco “Despite the steady rise in literacy rates over the past 50 years, there are still 754 million illiterate adults around the world, most of whom are women.”, living in countries as India, China, Indonesia, Pakistan, Brazil, Nigeria and Egypt, but surprisingly also North America and some European countries. So, I suppose these countries are (should be) more involved in trying to shrink this number than learning English…
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United Kingdom
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| If you pay any attention, fairly easy .... | Sep 9 |
Lingua 5B wrote:
carolyao0827 wrote:
English is often considered the most widely desired language to learn across many countries. Its status as the global language for business, science, technology, and international communication makes it a top priority for non-native speakers worldwide. English proficiency opens up opportunities in education, career advancement, travel, and accessing a vast amount of information online.
However, other languages like Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, and French also attract significant interest, depending on regional needs and economic ties. For example, Mandarin is increasingly sought after due to China’s economic influence, and Spanish is popular in the Americas.
On a 0-10 scale, how easy is it to recognize AI/GPT writings these days?
On topic, how can a country learn a language? You mean a nation, citizens?
I really don’t know the answer to this question. [Edited at 2024-09-08 08:28 GMT]
If you pay any attention, fairly easy ... Especially when the forwarders of the AI/GPT output couldn't be bothered to change even a comma.
As for the poll question, a "country" does not want to learn any language.
A country might decide which "foreign language" to impose on students as part of the curriculum in primary or secondary schools. Which may or may not correspond to what the said people would want to learn.
Individuals might want to learn a foreign language for all sort of reasons. For their jobs / their business, to read some literature in the original langage, just out of personal interest, because they plan to move to that country or are already there, etc etc.
Asking which language is "the wanted one" in some abstract "general case" that would apply to every country is a pointless question.
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