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Did you know?

- Learning another language improves brain function! Studies showed that learning a second language significantly delayed the onset of many brain related diseases such as Alzheimer and dementia, compared to those who can only speak their native tongue.

- Most Americans don't speak another language. About 18% do.

- 53% of Europeans speak at least one other language then their native tongue.

- English is the 3rd most spoken tongue in the world (behind Mandarin & Spanish.

- There are roughly 6,500 spoken languages in the world today. However, about 2,000 of those languages have fewer than 1,000 speakers. The most popular language in the world is Mandarin Chinese. There are 1,213,000,000 people in the world that speak that language.

- German is the 7th most spoken in the US and was almost the official language of the USA.

- Spanish is the 2nd most spoken in the world and 2nd most spoken in the US.

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