Listening and speaking for listen to the speech again, what do the idealized words referred to in the sentences? To some students, IT seems that the only foreign language to learn is english. There are, however, nearly seven thousand languages in the world after chinese. The language with the most native language speakers isn't in english, its spanish. Learning english is very useful, but IT is wise to learn at least one other foreign language if possible. There are many reasons why people learn a foreign language. Many students choose to study one of the languages that are spoken at the U. N. As they think IT means Better job chances in the future. The U. N has six official languages, arabic, chinese, english, french, russian and spanish. They are spoken by around two point eight billion people as they are native or second languages. Some students, though, choose to study a language because of family or friends. One american girl chose to learn danish because her grandparents were from denmark when he was little. Her grandpa used to read letters to her in danish from their relatives in denmark. Another Young lady started learning french because he had several friends from african countries where french is spoken. What do you think? Which other language would you choose to study, and why?