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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ibnanv" data-source="post: 19211990" data-attributes="member: 218596">What are the Top 5 World Languages in 2050?What are the languages that will be most widely spoken by the middle of this century? According to so called engco model of language forecasting the top 5 languages in 2050 are going to be <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Chinese</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Spanish</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">English</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Hindi-Urdu</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Arabic</li> </ul> I guess, there is no big surprise in  this list in the end but those are undoubtedly the realities that  children have to face when growing up and search their workplace in this  globalized world, even more so than us today. It is expected that  Chinese, Spanish and English will be the dominant languages in global  commerce.  As  a side note, there are also statistics that predict, the United States  will become the biggest Spanish speaking country by 2050. This would  also lead to Spanish being the second-most-spoken language after  Chinese. So what are the challenges? Of course,  we need to prepare future generations who will be part of the workforce  in 2050 for what we think the global landscape will look like by then.  Unfortunately, most plannings in the education sector don’t go that far  ahead. I feel, in many cases the state of affairs in the public school  sector is even behind today’s realities, already. What we will might see then are phenomenons similar to the <a href="http://fairlanguages.com/bad-economy-boosts-sign-ups-for-german-classes-up-to-35-percent/" target="_blank">run on German language classes</a>  we are currently seeing in southern European countries like Spain,  Portugal, Greece or Italy. There are people waiting in line in front of  the Goethe Institut in Valencia because they think learning German will  give them the opportunity to find a job in Germany. Therefore, I was astonished to learn  that in the state of Georgia many schools now made learning Mandarin  mandatory in public schools from pre-K through 12th grade. According to  NPR “most of the 25,000 students are poor enough to qualify for free and  reduced lunch, and about half don’t graduate.” Superintendent Romain Dallemand argues  that “Students who are in elementary school today, by 2050 they’ll be at  the pinnacle of their career. They will live in a world where China and  India will have 50 percent of the world GDP. They will live in a world  where, if they cannot function successfully in the Asian culture, they  will pay a heavy price.” Of course, Dallemand gets some headwind  from parents who would rather see their kids learn Spanish for the  reasons I mentioned above. But Dallemand says that “it is important for  communities to educate our children for their future, not our past.” What do you think? Do you have children  who have just started school? What languages do you want them to learn  to be prepared for the future?<img src="http://www.transparent.com/language-resources/infographic-speaking-of-languages.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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