Top 10 Languages You Should Learn in 2024 - Unlock your Opportunities

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Embark on a linguistic adventure with our definitive guide to the Top 10 Essential Languages to Learn. From the commerce-driven German to the culturally rich Japanese, explore what makes each language a key to unlocking global opportunities. Delve into the power of Russian as a gateway language, understand the widespread influence of Spanish, and discover why English holds the top spot as the world's lingua franca. Join us as we analyze each language's impact based on native speakers, geographical reach, and cultural significance, all backed by first-hand experience and comprehensive data. Don't just guess - make an informed decision on which language to learn next and expand your horizons!

00:01 Deciding What Language to Learn
00:39 8 Objective Factors
03:00 #10
03:55 #9
04:52 #8
05:29 #7
06:08 #6
07:04 #5
07:50 #4
08:50 #3
09:35 #2
10:29 #1
11:04 Conclusion

🌟 About Tim Keeley:
Tim Keeley, a seasoned professor and language enthusiast, brings four decades of experience living in Japan and mastering multiple Asian languages. His insights provide a roadmap for language learners eager to unlock the synergy among Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese.

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[ICXCTSARSLAVY]

I've always said the main reasons for people studying languages are the "Four L's: love, labor, literature, or leisure".

[eventhorizon]

3:00 German
3:54 Japanese
4:51 Turkish
5:28 Swahili
6:07 Hindi
7:03 Russian
7:49 Arabic
8:49 Spanish
9:34 Mandarin
10:29 English

[shrouuuq]

I know Arabic, Turkish, English and Spanish and I learn Russian, Chinese, Japanese and German I hope to get a time to learn Hindi and Swahili.
As you said actually these languages are opening up a whole world to us you get understand people better.
I love languages, cultures, literature and poetry so languages are combining them

[HendraLanguages]

Thank you sir for all videos. I'am from Indonesia and 33 years old. For now I learning english since September 2023. I hope my english will be better in this year.

[alanguages]

Thanks for making this video on gateway languages. I know many are confused sometimes where to start. Myself included.
With this video there is a direction and these languages do have the largest amount of resources available if anybody is interested delving deeper into the families mentioned in the video.

[crystalinfinite]

Hello, polyglot army ❤
I have self learning languages like Mandarin, Turkish, Urdu, Korean, Japanese and a little bit of Spanish and French and Italian and It feels so awesome. Being bilingual from a younger age now I know about 12 to 13 languages Including my mother tongue Bengali and Hindi and English, I am also working on an ancient language like Sanskrit.

[IamtheAlienator]

Dziękuję for your inspiring videos! Every time I think of quitting to learn "po polsku", because I cannot wrap my brain around it as a German, I watch one of your videos and keep on. The start is easy, then grammar almost kills you, but once you start speaking it gets better.

[CozyLazyArt]

Thank you for sharing this video. It's very useful. I am learning Japanese now. I am really thankful to you that your videos keeps me motivated to learning languages. Your videos are amazing.

[МиралыСыргабаев-ым]

Recently learning languages became my hobby so I just started to learn Spanish first to move to Spain one day, then I'll learn all the major languages first and then we'll see. Good luck to everyone who're learning foreign languages, I know you can do it guys🤝

[john_pantoja]

thank you very much for another awesome video, Tim!

[cynbahati]

So glad Swahili is on this list! I will be learning this after im at a good level with Spanish :)

[videospielesindkunst]

This list is absolutely amazing and I fully agree with it! I speak German and English, but decided learning Spanish and Turkish a few months ago, its an amazing journey. Also dabbled in Japanese and Swahili, but that will have to wait

[jamesm.]

The one drawback to learning Hindi is, oddly enough, that English is the main business language in India, and is becoming used increasingly in daily life such that "Hinglish" is what is referred to as what many people speak in Northern regions of India nowadays, particularly amongst the younger generations.

[AndyJugglesLanguages]

Thank you for another great video Tim.

I''ve studied all of those except Japanese. I've found Spanish, Mandarin and Russian to be very useful. I really struggle with Arabic - I'm off to Morocco in two days time and know that my MSR will not be understood but luckily I can speak French 😂.

[StillAliveAndKicking_]

I fear this video needs a warning “Not suitable for French people: side effects may include raised blood pressure, palpitations and shortness of breath”. I understand why you listed Spanish rather than French, presumably due to South America, and it is also easier for English speakers to learn, with regular gender. And yet French is such a beautiful language, and a definite must for British people, assuming they weren’t frightened away from language learning at school. Ten languages to learn, wow! I speak French and I am learning German. English and French are so similar, they are almost dialects. And yet despite English being classed as a West German language, English and German are so different. German idioms are so weird, and the way they use all those little words like doch, mal, schon, mehr etc is utterly bizarre. But it can sound nice, contrary to stereotypes.

[seoulmate]

Great list sir!! Mine would include French and Indonesian.

[harrykekgmail]

Very practical list of 10 languages. thank you

[christianjorgensen]

This is brilliant. Thank you for posting it.

[Swiatoikadr]

Your videos are awesome. I have started to learn Japanese....my 7-old year old son came up with such an idea, because he likes games from Japan. Starting is hard but step by step it will be a.nice adventure.

[zetnikoven]

in this video, I easily realized you have worked hard. Because information is very good and detailed. Especially I read happily.