Hello lovely.
I'm Maria and my name is Rory and we are the hosts of the IELTS speaking for success podcast, the podcast that aims to help you improve your speaking skills as well as your listening skills.
Along the way, we've started this podcast to give you languages language, the english language, because today we're gonna be talking about languages.
It's like the ultimate coincidence, talking about languages on a language podcast.
Rory, how many languages do we have in our world?
Do you know?
Im reading a book now about the development of human society and that number was in there, so I think its is it not something like 6000 7000 Roy.
Oh wow, thats amazing.
So according to Google, de listen, we believe everything Google says.
There are 7117 known languages spoken by people.
Lets talk about languages.
What foreign languages have you studied?
Well, we learned French in school and ive been studying Russian for eight years and Turkish for just a few months now.
Oh, I also learned Swedish when I lived there.
I nearly forgot about that one.
How did you learn those languages?
To be honest, my French was more about resisting the teacher and messing around, but there was a lot of book learning, so it wasn't very engaging.
Anyway, for Swedish we had speaking classes, and for Russian I used Duolingo and classes and just living in Russia to pick things up.
My Turkish has only learned via Duolingo, with the occasional fragmented conversation.
Would you like to learn any foreign language anymore?