Pieter Breughel the Elder's painting, Tower of Babel, in the art museum in Vienna, Austria. You can see another version in Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
If you speak English and only English or your native tongue is something few others speak, such as Hebrew or Hungarian, you might get around fastest in countries which speak English. Where could you holiday? The obvious places are
England and the UK, including Northern Ireland. Jersey, Guernsey, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa. Let's put them in alphabetical order so we can update easily and check nowhere is missed out.
Australia
Canada
England
Guernsey
Jersey
New Zealand
South Africa
USA.
The languages which have the greatest number of native speakers are Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, with English third.
However, if you take the number of people who speak English as a second language, the positions change to English first, Chinese, second, Hindi third and Spanish fourth.
On the other hand, it depends where you are travelling, who is at your business meeting, or who are your students or customers.
Spanish and Portuguese would be most useful in South American. English and Spanish in the USA. French and English in Canada. Chinese in China. Hindi in India.
If you wanted to learn Cyrillic, you could go to Russia or Bulgaria.
Esperanto
If you want penfriends worldwide and are hopeless at accents, you might stick to writing in Esperanto which is the most popular made up language, designed with communication in mind, based on European languages and simple grammar.
Useful Websites
https://www.ethnologue.com/guides/countries-most-languages
About the Author
Angela Lansbury, is a semi-retired travel writer still researching bucket list countries and seeking out the special, unusual, people, places, landmarks, hotels, museums and trails, fabulous foods, recipes, clothes and online souvenir shopping.
Angela Lansbury is a member of Toastmasters International.
Angela Lansbury B A Hons is the author of ten books by regular publishers, plus another ten self-published books.
About Angela The Speaker & Trainer
Angela Lansbury is a teacher of English and other languages to Toastmasters clubs and businesses.
Angela has several blogs speeches, comedy and song writing and organizing, writing intermittently, but writes almost daily on these three:
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TCA (A for Advanced club) is another advanced speakers' club which meets both online for visitors from worldwide and physically for walks, meals and socials in the Tampines area. Meetings are in the TC Community Club when Covid-19 regulations in Singapore allow it, but meanwhile come along to meetings online.
TCA meetings are on the fourth Tuesday evening of each month at 7 p.m Zoom room open to check your sound and online appearance and chit-chat, ready for a 7.15 pm start. I usually manage to attend meetings whether I am in Singapore or the UK.
Another club, totally online, is Singapore Online Dynamic, meeting 9 pm Singapore time on Fridays. I am a member of this club.
I am also a member of Senja-Cashew. When it meets physically it is in a convenient large complex containing a swimming pool beside a landmark lake next to a shopping complex. Right now it is online.
Once you join a club, your club's president will give you the opportunity to be informed of Toastmasters club meetings worldwide, especially those which have interesting workshops.cAbout the Author
Angela Lansbury, is a semi-retired travel writer still researching bucket list countries and seeking out the special, unusual, people, places, landmarks, hotels, museums and trails, fabulous foods, recipes, clothes and online souvenir shopping.
Angela Lansbury is a member of Toastmasters International.
Angela Lansbury B A Hons is the author of ten books by regular publishers, plus another ten self-published books.
About Angela The Speaker & Trainer
Angela Lansbury is a teacher of English and other languages to Toastmasters clubs and businesses.
Angela has several blogs speeches, comedy and song writing and organizing, writing intermittently, but writes almost daily on these three:
Please share links to your favourite posts.
You also get access to the online magazine. And the club will appoint a mentor to guide you through your first three speeches and plan your year so you can complete a Pathway suited to your personal interests. I chose the basic Presentation mastery path to start. Next I did the Engaging Humor path. Now I am onto the leadership paths such as Visionary Communication.
I am also a coach for Nee Soon South.
All the clubs worldwide have just handed over to the new team from July 1st, all full of enthusiasm, seeking new members, sometimes with a space for a committee member if you are job-hunting, or climbing the corporate ladder, just the thing to add to your c.v.
Toastmasters has made links with the Rotary club organization. So if you are interested in Rotary clubs, you might investigate both.
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