Language learning

• Online resources:
• Chinese

-- Chinese, with 915 million speakers in the Mandarin dialect alone, is the most commonly spoken language in the world, outnumbering English speakers by 561 million.

• Dutch

-- Dutch is a spoken by around 22 million people, mainly in the Netherlands and Belgium. Dutch is an official language of the Netherlands, Belgium, Suriname, Aruba, and the Netherlands Antilles.

• English

-- About 377 million people use one of the versions of English as their mother tongue, and a similar number of people use one of them as their second or foreign language as well. English is used widely in either the public or private sphere in more than 100 countries all over the world. In addition, the language has occupied a prominent place in international academic and business communities.

• French

-- French is spoken by about 120 million people as a mother tongue or fluently. It is an official language in 30 countries. French is also an official or administrative language in several communities and international organisations.

• German

-- German is spoken by more than 120 million people in 38 countries of the world. It is an official language in Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium, and European Union.

• Italian

-- Italian is spoken by about 70 million people. It is the official language of Italy and San Marino, and one of the official languages of Switzerland, spoken mainly in Ticino and Grigioni cantons.

• Portuguese

-- Portuguese is ranked sixth among the world's languages in number of native speakers (over 200 million). It is the official language in Angola, Brazil, Portugal and São Tomé and Príncipe as first language, and the most widely used language in Mozambique.

• Spanish

-- Spanish is the most widely spoken Romance language. It is spoken by 410 million people. It is the official language in 22 countries.

• Learning guide:
• How-to-learn-any-language.com

-- a language learning guide web site for self-study. Recommend for beginners, intermediate, and advanced learners.

• How to improve your English skills

-- some tips to improve English on learning skills, grammar, vocabulary, listening, speaking, reading, and writing. These tips are also uesful for other language learning.

• How to learn a language

-- an article about how to learn a language at Internet age.