TOP 10 LANGUAGE COURSES IN LEICESTER, UK - PAGE 4

With 483 million native speakers, Spanish is the second most used language internationally, after English, and is second only to Mandarin in global native speakers. Today native Spanish speakers make up 7.6% of the entire population of the world.

These courses are designed to start from an absolute beginner and will teach learners to communicate with deaf people on a range of general topics. You will be taught by a professional Deaf Tutor in a friendly and supportive environment.

Around 13 million people - mostly in Greece and Cyprus (where it is one of two official languages) - speak the modern form of Greek. However, Greek speakers are by far, more international than in South-eastern Europe and can be encountered in the USA, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia.

Around 85 million people speak Italian including the 59 million inhabitants of Italy itself and around half a million citizens of Switzerland, where it is one of four official languages. Italian is also spoken in parts of several Balkan countries including Albania, Croatia and Slovenia.

With similar Germanic origins to English, some Dutch phrases are easily understandable. There's no need for a phrasebook if someone in an Amsterdam nightclub asks you "Wil je met me dansen. Around 28 million people speak Dutch: outside of the Netherlands, it is most commonly encountered in Belgium.

For anyone with an interest in European history however, a working knowledge of Latin is essential. The earliest examples date back to the third century BC but it was the expansion of the Roman Empire which established Latin as a lingua franca around the Mediterranean.

The Punjabi language represents one of the major linguistic groups worldwide. With more than 125 million speakers worldwide, it may not come as a surprise that it is the third most spoken language in Leicester. The region of Punjab is located in Asia across two countries.

Turkish is the most widely spoken Turkic language with over 75 million native speakers in and around Turkey. Learn modern Turkish and you will be able to communicate with the inhabitants of Turkey, several million people indigenous to Northern Cyprus.

This course is for complete beginners or for those who have not practised French for some time. The course will give you skills and enable you to practice speaking and understand simple everyday language as a visitor to France.

This course covers use of present, past and future tense, designed to help those with some skills in Spanish prepare them for conversation on holiday. Would you like to learn Spanish before your next trip? This course is perfect for you.