Arabic the second most popular language for getting employed

RIYADH: The Arabic language will be the second most important foreign language to get a job in the future after Spanish in Britain, according to the British Institute.

Recently, the Riyadh-based King Abdullah International Center for Arabic Language (KAICAL) said that Arabic has been ranked fourth among the major international languages.
Quoted by the local media, London-based The Independent said that more than 300 million people speak Arabic, prompting the British Institute to urge schools to include Arabic as part of their curriculum.
According to its study, the decision was made taking into account various factors like export and import business transactions, government jobs and economic criteria, as well as security priorities.
The Independent published a story which said “Forget French and Mandarin - Arabic is the language to learn, says the British Council,” adding that some schools in Britain already teach Arabic to students like Horton Park Primary School in Bradford, which began teaching Arabic three years ago.
Research conducted by the British Council rated the language as the second most important for workers of the future, and use of Arabic is becoming more and more vital for the UK’s long-term cultural and economic prosperity.
In a previous report KAICAL said that according to a study on languages, Chinese, with all its dialects, is the most widely spoken language. However, English occupies the top slot in terms of the number of countries that speak it, followed by Arabic in second place.
Professor of languages at the University of Duesseldorf Ulrich Ammon said there are 467 million Arabic speakers.