No child ever learnt to speak from a grammar table. They heard a phrase a hundred times, used it, were understood โ and only years later were told what a verb was. 13 languages here are taught in that order: sound, then phrase, then pattern. Every lesson gives you something you can actually say today.
Fifteen minutes every day beats three hours on a Sunday. Memory is built by returning, not by sitting longer.
About 300 million people across France, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland and much of West Africa
Start โ Romance6 lessonsAbout 490 million native speakers, second only to Mandarin โ Spain and almost all of Latin America
Start โNo native speakers today, yet it lives inside sixty per cent of English vocabulary, all of science's naming, law, medicine and the Church
Start โ Indo-Aryan6 lessonsSpoken daily by a small number and studied by millions; the source language of Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati and much of the vocabulary of Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam
Start โAbout 528 million speakers in India, and understood by many more through film and song
Start โ Indo-Aryan6 lessonsAbout 83 million, mainly in Maharashtra, Goa and the border districts of Karnataka, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh
Start โ Indo-Aryan6 lessonsAbout 265 million โ West Bengal, Tripura, Assam's Barak valley and the whole of Bangladesh. The sixth most spoken language on earth.
Start โ Indo-Aryan6 lessonsAbout 56 million โ Gujarat, Daman, Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, and one of the most widely spoken Indian languages abroad
Start โAbout 83 million โ Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Sri Lanka, Singapore and Malaysia, where it is an official language
Start โ Dravidian6 lessonsAbout 96 million โ Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and a large diaspora. The most spoken Dravidian language.
Start โ Dravidian6 lessonsAbout 44 million, chiefly in Karnataka, with inscriptions going back to the 5th century
Start โ Dravidian6 lessonsAbout 35 million โ Kerala, Lakshadweep, Puducherry's Mahรฉ, and a very large diaspora in the Gulf
Start โThe oldest of them all โ with the mantras, the verses, and an honest look at what chanting does and does not do.