People always think their native language is the hardest in the world.
It’s not true.
Well, obviously, it is true for some nation which truly has the most difficult language of the world.  On the other hand, “difficulty” of a language is like “movement” of an object in Physics: it only makes sense relative to some frame of reference.
In any case, I’ve always heard it from people that their language is the most difficult. For example:

Norwegians told me that Norwegian is extremely …

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I want to talk a bit about making the lingua franca, the international or the bridge language of the world. I don’t want to give you a summary that you can find everywhere else, instead I want to share my idea with you. Having that in mind, you still need some context first.
The Lingua Franca
My Oxford American Dictionary gives the definition of lingua franca as:
a language that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different.
The …

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I am not sure about you but one of my main motivations for learning languages is travel. While it’s fine to use the language online or have a pen-friend (I’ve never really had one), what’s the use of knowing a language if you never actually speak it?
Speaking a language in its country is pretty awesome, though. I have tried speaking the language  (in probably that order in time)  in Germany (I speak poor German), France, Italy (Italian not too good either), Portugal, …

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