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A modern language is any human language that is currently in use. The term is used in a language...

A modern language is any human language that is currently in use. The term is used in a language education context (in high schools, secondary schools, colleges and universities) to distinguish between languages such as French and German, which are spoken by millions of people and are learned for their usefulness as tools of communication or lingua franca, and classical languages (also called "dead languages") such as Latin, Attic Greek, Sanskrit, and Classical Chinese, which are studied for their cultural or linguistic value. Modern languages are taught extensively around the world; see second language acquisition. English is taught as a second or foreign language in most countries; see English language learning and teaching. Most children learn an official version of their native language or learn a local major lingua franca (for example Mandarin) in Asia-Pacific countries, and all subjects are taught in that lingua franca language except for foreign language lessons. Singapore is the an exception, in which English is taught as a first language. In India, children usually learn to speak their native language first (for example. Hindi, Tamil, Bengali etc), at home, while English