{"id":3179,"date":"2021-07-08T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apiarybuzz.com\/home\/?p=3179"},"modified":"2021-07-07T11:57:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T11:57:14","slug":"the-beauty-of-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apiarybuzz.com\/home\/blog\/2021\/07\/08\/the-beauty-of-language\/","title":{"rendered":"THE BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop = 'articleBody'>\n<h2>Intro<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Language has gradually developed as humans evolved. As a result, it plays an extremely important part in our daily communications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our team wanted to know what is the first language of our panelists, as well as their level of interest in other languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s explore the results below!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Survey Results<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>First, we asked the panelists how many languages they can communicate with on a basic level. The result was 98% of our panelists can communitcate in at least 3 languages. Followed up 27% knowing exactly 3 languages and 6% knowing 4-5 languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the emphasis on students learning their mother tongues in schools, this is not a surprising result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Second, we asked our panelists which language they wished to learn. The results are shown in the infographic below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apiarybuzz.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2021-07-02-Facebook-13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/apiarybuzz.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2021-07-02-Facebook-13-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apiarybuzz.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2021-07-02-Facebook-13-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/apiarybuzz.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2021-07-02-Facebook-13-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/apiarybuzz.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2021-07-02-Facebook-13-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/apiarybuzz.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2021-07-02-Facebook-13-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/apiarybuzz.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2021-07-02-Facebook-13-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/apiarybuzz.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2021-07-02-Facebook-13-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/apiarybuzz.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2021-07-02-Facebook-13.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The top languages our surveyed panelists wanted to learn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With the influencer of Kpop, Kdrama and the high level of interest in Japanese culture in Singapore, this is not a surprising result. But we also wanted to know why.  Hence, we&#8217;ve included a list of key reasons mentioned by our panelists below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Interested in Japanese &amp; Korean culture<\/li><li>Travels to Japan &amp; Korea<\/li><li>Love of Kpop<\/li><li>To communicate more effectively<\/li><li>To increase employability<\/li><li>Low English literacy rate in other countries<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Another interesting question we posed to our panelists was what if there was only 1 universal language used around the world, would the world be a better place? Our panelists were split, with 44% saying yes and 56% saying no. It does seem that variety is the spice of life, even for something like languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand, on whether the government should encourage citizens to master a 2<sup>nd<\/sup> language (or their mother tongue like Mandarin Chinese, Tamil, or Bahasa Malay), it was overwhelmingly yes with 89% of the panelists agreeing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Connect with us<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you agree? Share your thoughts with us on our social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/apiarybuzzsg\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/apiarybuzzsg<\/a><\/li><li>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/apiarybuzzsg\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/apiarybuzzsg<\/a><\/li><li>Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/apiarybuzzsg\/\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/apiarybuzzsg\/<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Join our panelists at ApiaryBuzz to share your opinions!<br>Earn points for your thoughts and redeem rewards.<br>Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apiarybuzz.com\/register\">www.apiarybuzz.com\/register<\/a> to sign up now.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A breakdown of what people in Singapore think about the languages they speak and want to speak. Results from our market survey on ApiaryBuzz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[59,58,56,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apiarybuzz.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apiarybuzz.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apiarybuzz.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apiarybuzz.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apiarybuzz.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/apiarybuzz.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3186,"href":"https:\/\/apiarybuzz.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions\/3186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apiarybuzz.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apiarybuzz.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apiarybuzz.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}