Learning a foreign language has many benefits. Learning a foreign language helps with your creativity, logic and problem-solving. If you are living in a foreign country, it is especially useful to be able to speak the local language, because it will help you communicate, get around, make friends, and immerse yourself more fully in the country.
But if you are a TEFL teacher or a digital nomad, you might be wondering exactly which foreign language you should take the time and effort to learn. Of course, a lot depends on where you plan to live, but there are a few languages which are widely spoken all over the world.
Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, Arabic and French are four languages which are spoken in a number of different countries.
For example, knowing Spanish will be helpful if you are living in Spain, and also parts of Latin and South America. What’s more, the Spanish-speaking population is so large that you’re likely to meet Spanish speakers in other countries too.
Read more: The Most Useful Languages For Travelling