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Magazine "The Secret Companies» № 8 (289) on 03.08.2009
Learning languages is considered a profitable investment. "The secret of the firm" has calculated the value of the futures derivatives, identifying the most promising from an economic point of view of language.

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Text: Konstantin Bocharsky

"Tomorrow the Web will be dominated by a mixture of English, Chinese, Hindi, Portuguese and Russian," - this is the conclusion of a study conducted by the magazine NewScientist. The highest growth of the Internet audience (25-40%) recorded in Brazil, India and China, and the relative stability in the U.S. and Europe, where almost full connectedness of the population. "By 2012, the number of Internet users in Asia (including nearly 500 million Chinese) would relate to users in North America as 3 to 1" - the researchers say. I recommend that prospective teach languages. SF decided to shift the Internet-linguistic analysis of the prospects for a more fundamental basis.

People learn languages in order to succeed: to find a better job, move to another country, gain access to knowledge. The time during which a person wishes to receive dividends from the study of language - 5-10 years. This horizon simplifies the work of researchers. World economic growth in the coming years will not exceed a few percent. The birth rate in countries with high GDP remains low and the population growth of about 5%in developing countries will not change in the coming years, the prevalence of languages. As a result, the dynamics of these indicators can be neglected, and we analyzed two factors: the prevalence of language (the number of carriers) and its economic potential (the total GDP of countries where it is public). These data led to a common denominator and mixed into a single score. Now you know, what language courses are recorded.