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School Locations

  • School in Orange County (Irvine)
    Conveniently located a couple minutes off the 405 freeway (Macarthur Boulevard exit), near the South Coast Plaza and John Wayne Airport.

    Orange County Language Center
    18004 Skypark Circle, Suite 100
    Irvine, CA 92614
    (949) 833-0900
    oc@languagedoor.com

Language Trivia...

Arabic: Arabic, one of the world's major languages, is spoken from Morocco to Egypt and throughout the Arabian peninsula, and more than 200 million people speak Arabic as their first language. While Arabic is the official language in so many Arabic countries, a great number of different spoken dialects exist. These dialects are used mostly in casual conversations.

Armenian: Today Armenian is the mother tongue of more than 5 million people, of whom over 3 million live in Armenia.

Basque: Approximately million people speak Basque as their first language, and most of live in northeast Spain.

Bengali: Bengali is a member of the Indic group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages.

Bulgarian: Bulgarian is spoken as a first language by about 9 million people, and most of them are Bulgarian.

Cantonese: There are about 52,000,000 Cantonese speakers in China and another 20,000,000 in other countries.  It's primarily spoken in the surrounding area of southern China and Hong Kong.

Chinese (Mandarin): Mandarin Chinese, spoken by approximately 885,000,000 people as their first language in the world (primarily in China), is a subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages (e.g. Thai).  Chinese has a number of variants, such as XIAMEN (AMOY), LEIZHOU (LEI HUA, LI HUA), CHAO-SHAN, etc.  Some linguists regard them as different languages while others believe that these are just dialects of Chinese. Similar to the other Sino-Tibetan languages, Mandarin Chinese is tonal, having four distinctive tones.

Croatian: What makes Croatian differ from other Slavic languages is that it has four kinds of musical accent.

Czech: The official language of the Czech Republic.  Approximately 11 million people speak Czech as their mother tongue.  In the past, sometimes it was called Bohemian, too.

Danish: A little more than 5 million people speak Danish, and most of them reside in Denmark.

Dutch: Dutch is the official language of Netherlands, and it is the mother tongue of 15 million people in Netherlands.

Farsi (Persian): Farsi (modern Persian) is mostly used in Iran and western Afghanistan. 

French: French belongs to the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. More than 70 million people speak French as their mother tongue, and most of them reside in France (55 million speakers), Canada (6.5 million), Belgium (3 million) and former French and Belgian colonies in Africa (5 million). 

Finnish: Finnish, also called Suomi, belongs to the Finnic group of the Finno-Ugric languages. Finnish does not have grammatical gender and the article.

German: German, member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages, has nearly 100 million speakers as their first language.   It is chiefly spoken in Germany (77 million), Austria (8 million), and Switzerland (4.5 million).

Greek: Some research indicates that about 12% of English vocabulary originated from Greek.

Gujarati: Gujarati is a member of the Indic group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages.  It is spoken mostly in west India.

Hebrew: Hebrew has been the official tongue in Israel since 1948. It is spoken by most of the 4.5 million Jewish people there.

Hindi: The official language of India. It is written in the Devanagari alphabet employed for Sanskrit.

Hungarian: There are approximately 13 million Hungarian speakers. Most of them (about 10 million) reside in Hungary, and others live in Eastern Europe, Russia, and elsewhere.

Indonesian: Indonesian is the westernmost branch of the Austronesian family of languages. It is the official language of Indonesia.

Italian: Italian belongs to Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. Italian is the official language of Italy and San Marino, and there are about 58 million speakers in Italy and 24,00 in San Marino.  Additionally, Italian is spoken by approximately In Switzerland where Italian is one of the official languages.

Japanese: There are approximately 125 million Japanese speakers, and most of them reside in Japan.  A good number of Japanese speakers can also be found in Ryukyu Island (Okinawa), Korea, Taiwan, Parts of the United States, and Brazil.   Although some linguists suggest that Japanese has some connection with Korean, Chinese and Altaic languages, the origin of this language still remains uncertain.

Korean: Korean is grammatically similar to Chinese, while it is morphologically similar to Japanese.

Latin: Latin continue to exist as the official tongue of Vatican City and as the official language of communication of the Roman Catholic Church.

Malay: Malay belongs to the family of Malayo-Polynesian languages.  It is spoken chiefly in Malaysia and Singapore.

Mongolian: About 6 million Mongolian speakers exist, and most of them reside in the Republic of Mongolia.

Norwegian: Norwegian is spoken by about 5 million people, mainly in Norway and other Scandinavian countries.

Polish: Polilsh is extremely rich phonetically. It has 10 vowels and 35 consonants.

Portuguese: Portuguese is spoken as a first language by about 170 million people.  In Brazil, there are approximately 154 million speakers, while there are 11 million speakers in in Portugal and the Portuguese islands in the Atlantic.

Romanian: Chiefly spoken in Romania, there are about 26 million Romanian speakers.

Russian: Russian language belongs to the East Slavic group of the Slavic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. There are about 167 million Russian speakers in the world, and 153 million of them are in the republics of the former USSR.

Sanskrit: Sanskrit was the classical standard language of ancient India, and it can be found in some of the oldest surviving Indo-European documents.

Spanish: Spanish, member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages, is spoken as a first language by approximately 330 million people. Additionally, there are another 50 million people who speak Spanish as their second language.  Not only it is the official language of Spain (40 million speakers) and 19 Latin American countries but also the official languages of the United Nations. 

Swahili: There are approximately 30 million Swahili speakers, and it is spoken mainly in Tanzania, Kenya, Congo (Kinshasa), Burundi, and Uganda. 

Swedish: Swedish is spoken by about 9 million people, chiefly in Sweden (where it is the official language) and in Finnish (where it is one of the official languages). 

Tagalog: Tagalog is one of the Malayo-Polynesian languages, mainly spoken in the Republic of the Philippines.

Thai: About 50 million Thai speakers exist, and most of them live in Thailand (where it is the official language) and others reside in Vietnam, and the Yunnan province of China.

Turkish: In Turkey where Turkish is the official language, it is spoken by approximately 55 million people there.  Additionally, another million Turkish speakers reside in Bulgaria, Greece, Cyprus, and Macedonia.

Urdu: Urdu is a member of the Indic group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of language and is the official language in Pakistan.

Vietnamese: Vietnamese is the official language of Vietnam.  It is also formerly known as Annamese, Annamite.