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?
Most learners don't struggle because Russian is "too hard."
They struggle because they don't train speaking directly.
- You can study vocabulary
- you can memorize Grammar
- You can listen for hours
But if you don't practice building sentences in real time, you'll still struggle when someone speaks to you.
One of my students once told me:
“I have been studying Russian for a year. In my head I can prepare basic sentences, yet when it comes to actually speaking I ‘chock’.”That's not a knowledge problem.
That’s a training problem.
Your weakest skill determins your conversational level.
And for most learners, that weakest skill is speaking.
That's why I built Russian Conversations Unlocked - a structured 30-lesson audio course designed to train real-time speaking ability step by step.
If you want to have real conversations in Russian, start here: