Most popular languages to learn in 2023

Rank Language Total TikTok hashtag views
1 English 10.3 billion
2 Chinese 2.4 billion
3 Korean 2.0 billion 
4 French 1.5 billion
5 Japanese 1.1 billion
6 Spanish 1.0 billion
7 German 597.3 million
8 Arabic 384.1 million
9 Russian 291.6 million
10 Turkish 217.4 million
11 Portuguese 28.5 million
12 Urdu 20.0 million
13 Punjabi 15.8 million
14 Hindi 14.9 million
  15     Telugu                  9.7 million

Please find the full data set attached here.

English is the language people are learning most on TikTok

Revision Centre can reveal that English is the language people are learning the most on TikTok with 10.3 billion hashtag views for  #Learn English’. This is 329% more views than for  #Learn Chinese’ in second place with 2.4 billion hashtag views.

#Learn Chinese’ places second with 2.4 billion views, 400 million more hashtag views than ‘#Learn Korean’ in third place. Chinese is spoken in many countries, such as Hong Kong, China, Macao, Singapore and Taiwan. However, With 1.2 billion native speakers, Chinese has the highest prevalence in China.

In third place is  #Learn Korean’ with 2 billion hashtag views on TikTok. This is 500 million more hashtag views than French in fourth place with 1.5 billion views.

In fourth place with 1.5 Billion hashtag views on TikTok is ‘#Learn French’, which is 500 million more hashtag views than for ‘#Learn Spanish’ in sixth place with 1 billion hashtag views. French is the official language of 29 countries, and is estimated that around 12% of the European Union’s population speaks French as a first language, making it the fourth most widely-spoken European language.

Placing fifth with 1.1 billion hashtag views for ‘#Learn Japanese’ which is 100 million more hashtag views than for ‘#Learn Spanish’ in sixth place with 1 billion hashtag views.