Top 10 Most Important Languages to Learn in Canada

The Top Ten
1 English

Dump French as an official language like Quebec does with English. Why must we have French language written on everything. In most regions of Canada the citizens 99% speak English and this includes some areas of Quebec

Just guessing: this is just a list where people put languages that they speak in and call it fair game? I dunno.

English is one of the official languages of Canada.

2 French

French is one of the official languages of Canada.

3 Chinese

There is actually no such language as 'Chinese.' The 2 Chinese languages are Mandarin & Cantonese.

4 Italian

Toronto is home to the 4th largest Italian population outside of Italy, behind Sao Paulo/ Brazil, Buenos Aires/Argentina, and New York City/US.

5 Punjabi

There are big immigrant communities from India and Pakistan

6 Arabic
7 Spanish

There aren't many people from Spain but there are many Filipinos who speak Spanish.
There are also some small communities from South and Central America (their communities are bigger in the US)

8 Portuguese
9 Russian

Russian community in Canada became significant. North York in Toronto and Cote-Saint-Luc in Montreal are neighborhoods populated mainly by Russians, Ukrainians and other nationalities from the former USSR that speak Russian. They not only live there, they run businesses in these neighborhoods - supermarkets, small grocery stores, book stores, kindergartens, fitness facilities, to name a few.

10 Dutch
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11 Greek
12 Norwegian
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