Named the most studied languages in the world
According to the Ethnologue report prepared by SIL International, the most studied language in the world is English. The second place is occupied by Spanish, the third by Chinese. Italian is in fourth place.
Linguists say that the indicators of mass in language learning may differ depending on the method of research. Knowing the exact number of people who speak a particular language is almost impossible.
According to SIL International, Italian has shown positive dynamics among the most popular languages studied in the world for several years. In 2013-2014, it was studied by 1.7 million students, and a year later the figure increased to 2 million. In 2016/2017, 2,145,093 students studied this language in the states.
If we talk about native speakers, the leader is English, in everyday life it is used by 1.19 billion people (17% of the world’s population).
Chinese has the second place (1.1 billion people, 15.8% of the population). Hindi Urdu is the third place, used by 697.4 million people. Then Spanish (512.9 million), Arabic (422 million), French (284.9 million), Malay (281 million), Russian (264.3 million), Bengali (261.8 million), Portuguese (236.5 million). Italian took 21st place.