Ginsburgh, Victor A.; Ortuño Ortín, Ignacio; Weber, Shlomo - 2005
the foreign language is spoken, the more it attracts others to learn it; the larger the distance between two languages … in 13 European countries. We show that three variables explain reasonably well the share of people who learn a foreign … language: the larger the native population in the country, the less its citizens are prone to learn another language; the more …