9 Major Benefits of Learning Italian
Italian is also spoken in the Americas and Australia by large immigrant and expatriate communities. In Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Romania, Italian is included under the languages of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages although in such countries Italian is neither a co-official language nor a protected language. Many speakers in Italian speak both Italian as well as Italian as another regional language (whether in its standard form or in regional versions).

One of the official languages of the European Security and Cooperation Organization and one of the Council of Europe’s working languages, Italian is an important European language, with 67M speakers (15 per cent of the population of the EU). It is the second most commonly spoken mother language in the European Union, with 13.4M EU citizens speaking it as their 2nd language (3 per cent). The total number of speakers is approximately 85B and it includes Italian speakers in non-EU countries (such as Switzerland, Albania and the UK) as well as other continents.