With winter and new lockdowns coming, it's a good idea to occupy your mind with learning something new. Something useful. Something cool.
And what's a better skill than learning a new language?
I dove deep into the statistics this morning to figure out which language are the most popular for those learning at home. That's why I looked for the numbers of searches of 'learn insert language' and summed them up for the U.S and the world in general.
You can sort the table by U.S or world by clicking on the category you want to show up on top.
Rank | Language | U.S monthly searches | World monthly searches |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | Spanish | 51000 | 115.000 |
2 | Japanese | 41000 | 93.000 |
3 | Korean | 21000 | 53.000 |
4 | French | 20000 | 68.000 |
5 | German | 14000 | 53.000 |
6 | English | 13000 | 178.000 |
7 | Russian | 12000 | 33.000 |
8 | Chinese | 11000 | 30.000 |
9 | Sign language | 11000 | 21.000 |
10 | Italian | 10000 | 31.000 |
And here below is the full list of the most popular 50 languages:
Language | U.S monthly searches | World monthly searches |
|---|---|---|
Spanish | 51000 | 115.000 |
Japanese | 41000 | 93.000 |
Korean | 21000 | 53.000 |
French | 20000 | 68.000 |
German | 14000 | 53.000 |
English | 13000 | 178.000 |
Russian | 12000 | 33.000 |
Chinese | 11000 | 30.000 |
Sign language | 11000 | 21.000 |
Italian | 10000 | 31.000 |
Latin | 8700 | 16.000 |
Arabic | 7800 | 31.000 |
Hebrew | 6100 | 11.000 |
Hindi | 4900 | 17.000 |
Dutch | 4700 | 15.000 |
Portuguese | 3700 | 11.000 |
Gaelic | 3500 | 9.000 |
Icelandic | 3400 | 6.000 |
Vietnamese | 3100 | 7.000 |
Greek | 2800 | 8.400 |
Norwegian | 2500 | 7.000 |
Swedish | 2500 | 9.600 |
Thai | 2300 | 9.700 |
Finnish | 2200 | 5.200 |
Sanskrit | 2000 | 7.000 |
Swahili | 1700 | 3.400 |
Braille | 1600 | 5.600 |
Farsi | 1400 | 3.100 |
Irish | 1400 | 3.100 |
Polish | 1400 | 6.600 |
Romanian | 1400 | 4.000 |
Punjabi | 1200 | 4.200 |
Afrikaans | 1100 | 1.300 |
Serbian | 1100 | 2.200 |
Yiddish | 1100 | 1.400 |
Amharic | 1000 | 1.600 |
Danish | 1000 | 3.800 |
Hawaiian | 1000 | 1.200 |
Klingon | 1000 | 1.900 |
Urdu | 1000 | 5.000 |
Aramaic | 800 | 1.200 |
Croatian | 800 | 2.600 |
Esperanto | 800 | 1.800 |
Tamil | 800 | 6.800 |
Turkish | 800 | 11.000 |
Elvish | 700 | 1.200 |
Albanian | 600 | 1.400 |
Dothraki | 600 | 1.200 |
Nepali | 600 | 1.100 |
Persian | 600 | 2.200 |
The data is from ahrefs, and the pictures from wikipedia. Feel free to
What should you do next?
Learning Russian does NOT need to be difficult. All you need is a solid plan that helps you improve the following things daily:
- vocabulary
- grammar
- listening skills
- speaking skills
That's ALL you need. If you can do this for a couple of weeks, you’ll already be making great progress in your Russian skills.
And the best part? If you improve a little bit every day, soon these practices will become daily habits.
And then you will start making progress on autopilot.
This means that learning Russian is now a part of your daily routine. So you won’t even need discipline anymore to get yourself to practice.
If you like the idea of this, but don’t know where to start, go here for more information.