Language Survey Updates

I have updated the results on the Most Beautiful Language Survey page. There is now a Top 10 List for both the Most Beautiful Spoken Language and the Most Beautiful Written Language. I will update these Top 10 lists from time to time.

I have also changed the Hardest Language to Learn Survey. There are no longer any choices, just a space for write-ins. After more than 1500 responses, there is a good enough number to get a reasonably accurate sampling. But putting a group of choices first may be unintentionally skewing the results in favor of those languages. So, I have removed the choices. I will see how this affects the results. It should be interesting.

Surveys Update

I have recently updated the Hardest Language to Learn and the Easiest Language to Learn surveys. The Thank You page (after you fill out the survey) displays the ongoing results in a graph form. It doesn't show the results of the write-in portion of the survey, only the first part. So many people wanted to actually see the results that I made that addition for them.

I was pleased to see in the Clinton/Obama debate a few weeks ago (I believe it was on Feb 21st - International Mother Language Day!) that they raised questions of bilingualism, language, and English as an official language in the US. Both candidates gave a good response - that they would promote the teaching of foreign languages in school and that it was critical for the US to do so. They also both promoted English as the unifying language of the US, but both backed down from the idea of it as an official language.