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If you’re learning German, you’re not alone. There are 15.4 million people learning it with you.

German is the world’s 10th most spoken language.  But if we rank the world’s languages in order of their economic impact (i.e. their GNP) German comes in fourth worldwide after English, Chinese and Spanish.

Additionally, the number of people learning German has increased for the first time in fifteen years.  Europe continues to be the biggest home of German language learners, with 9.4 million students, and with countries such as Poland and France producing nearly 4 million learners between them! But according to a study done in 2015 (the next study is due in 2020) German has seen an increase in learners in countries such as Brazil, China and India as well. 

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Mandarin Chinese is spoken by over 1 billion people worldwide, which places it at Number 1 of the world’s most spoken languages. There are 873 million native speakers of Mandarin Chinese, and a further 178 million secondary speakers.

As a Mandarin learner, that means you’re instantly able to communicate with 13% of the world’s population (compared with Spanish, the third most spoken language, which unlocks just 0.55% of the world’s population.) Chinese is also one of the 6 official UN languages – the others being English, Arabic, French, Russian and Spanish.

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They say immersion is the best way to learn a new language, but not all of us are able to pick up and go and holiday in a country that speaks our target language.

So how can we achieve immersion from the comfort of our own home?

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If you’re reading this post, chances are your English is already pretty darn good. Fluent, in fact, or thereabouts.

English is one of the most widely spoken languages, with over 380 million native speakers. If that sounds like a lot, consider this: a further 700 million people speak English as a foreign language.

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The letter G in Spanish can be tricky, because there are four ways to pronounce it.

In this article, I will answer the following questions:

• What are the four ways to pronounce the G in Spanish?
• How do you pronounce each Spanish G sound?
• When do you use each pronunciation?

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Did you know that most shows Netflix creates in-house come pre-loaded with audio in other languages? 

Me neither. Not to mention a whole bunch of other shows. Until I went exploring one day and discovered a whole wealth of language gold hidden right there, in my Netflix account.

So then I started to click around. I wonder if this is in French? What about this? What about this?

Watching movies in your target language is a great way to supplement your language learning. It helps you master the first stage of learning a language by ear: your capacity to hear and understand the sounds being made. 

Plus, you don’t have to feel guilty about spending time on the couch watching TV!

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