Here is the complete overview of our articles with reviews and comparisons of language learning software for computers (PC, Mac) and language learning apps for smartphones (Android, iPhone) to learn the following languages:
Learn English
Our review and comparison of online language courses, smartphone apps and learning software for computers to learn English:
English is certainly the most important world language today. Not only does the English language have the most speakers worldwide, but it is also the most widely used language in business, science and culture.
Chinese is the world language with the most native speakers. In addition to Mandarin Chinese, which has about 850 million native speakers, there are 7 other Chinese languages, such as Cantonese.
After Chinese, Hindi is the foreign language with the second largest number of native speakers (about 460 million).
Since there are several hundred different languages in India, Hindi is often learned there as a second language.
Spanish is the most widely used foreign language in international communication after English. Spanish is also the official language in 21 countries in Latin America, Europe and Africa.
French was an international world language even before English. Today, the French language is an official language of 29 countries on 5 continents: Europe, America, Africa, Asia and Oceania.
Russian is an official language in 5 countries (Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, and Kyrgyzstan) and a common lingua franca in many of the 15 countries of the former Soviet Union.
The Brazilian language and European Portuguese are very similar, much like American English and British English. There are only minor differences in vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation.
The Japanese language has more native speakers than German (about 127 million people in Japan, USA and South America). However, there are relatively few who speak Japanese as a foreign language (1 million worldwide).
The Italian language is spoken by 90 million people. Within the European Union, surprisingly, there are even more Italian speakers than Spanish speakers.