Everyone but the biggest knuckle-dragging Neanderthal agrees that learning another language is a good thing. Aside from unlocking a whole new way of thinking, it also allows you to appear worldly, sophisticated and (probably) great in the sack. But with only a small percentage of Americans and an even-smaller percentage of British speaking a second language, it seems most of us can never dream of achieving this common goal.
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10. Spanish
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Source/Further reading:
http://en.1globaltranslators.com/10-false-friends-portuguese-spanish/
http://www.cactusworldwide.com/blog/2012/11/15/the-influence-of-french-on-the-english-language/
http://blog.elanex.com/know-your-languages-italian-a-romance-language-with-roots-in-vulgar-latin
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2016/03/14/the-easiest-foreign-languages-to-learn/a-norwegian-city/
https://jakubmarian.com/learning-esperanto-is-it-worth-it/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2016/03/14/the-easiest-foreign-languages-to-learn/windmills-in-the-netherlands/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2016/03/14/the-easiest-foreign-languages-to-learn/amsterdam/
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