What is a Foreign or World Language?

The WHAT? WHY? and HOW? of Language Learning

What is a Foreign or World Language?

A foreign language is a language not spoken by the people of a certain place. It is also a language not spoken in the native country of the person referred to, i.e. an English speaker living in Japan can say that Japanese is a foreign language to him or her. ...

Why study a Language other than English?

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"I speak English, so I don't have to learn a foreign language...." Everyone speaks English, right? Well, certainly not everyone speaks English. According to the CIA World Fact Book, only 5.6 % of the world's total population speaks English as a primary language. That number doubles when people who speak English as a second or third language are counted. So that means that over four-fifths of the world's population does not speak English.