The Arabic Language is the primary language of most countries in the Middle East and North Africa. It is an international language and according to al-bab.com, it is the sixth most commonly spoken language in the world and been impacted by other languages throughout history. It is spoken as language by almost a third of a billion people and as a second language by a quarter-billion more.

The Arabic Language had a considerable influence on the vocabulary of many other languages including Urdu, Hindi, Spanish and Portuguese. Several common English words including "sugar" and "alcohol" are taken from Arabic. The Arabic Language is used both practically and artistically in its written from. Arabic calligraphy is a complex and painstaking art that requires years of study to master.

Arabic spoken in:
United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Israel, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Western Sahara, Yemen and many other countries as a minority language.

History
The Arabic language predates Islamic civilization, although it would not have risen to prominence without the rise of Islam. The first classical Arabic inscription was found near Damascus and written in the Aramaic script.

Geography
Arabic is distributed around North Africa and the Middle East as an official or co-official language. In places where it is not an official or first language, it may be important for international relations because it is the language of the Muslim holy book, the Qur'an.

Cantonese is spoken by approximately 65 million people in the southern China provinces, Hong Kong and Macau as well as other South East Asian countries like Singapore and in the other large Chinese communities around the world. Cantonese is one of the five major languages in China and is the principal language in Chinese communities abroad owing to the fact that most Chinese immigrants came from Hong Kong. Cantonese is the language predominantly used for business around Southeast Asia. It is a Chinese language that is quite different from Mandarin, the language spoken by most Chinese, especially in the north.

Cantonese spoken in:
China, Hong Kong, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Panama, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam

Japanese is the official language of Japan, which has a population of over 125 million. There are also around 2.5 million people of Japanese origin, many of whom speak Japanese as their first language, living in Brazil and the rest of the Americas, particularly the United States, London, New York and Paris.

Japanese is not directly related to any other language. It is one of the major languages, which still puzzle historical linguists.  Japanese and neighboring Korean are similar in grammar. It is measured as a segregate language and relatively easy for Korean to learn.

Japanese spoken in:
Japan, Guam, Marshall Islands, Palau, Taiwan

Approximately 78 million people living on the Korean peninsula speak Korean. The entire population of North and South Korea speaks this language, while there are certainly differences between the Korean dialect spoken in the north and the one spoken in the south, the dialects are mutually understandable.

North Korean typically refers to the Korean language as Chos nmal although it is also called urimal. The standard of North Korea is based on the way it is spoken in the capital P'yngyang while in the south the standard is the way it is spoken in Seoul. The differences between these two forms of the Korean language does not make it impossible for speakers of either group to communicate with each other since the variances are more or less comparable to the Spanish spoken in Spain and the Spanish spoken in Latin America.

Immigrants living in the former Soviet Union, Australia, Canada, United States, Brazil, Japan, United Kingdom, as well as the Philippines.

Portuguese is spoken in approximately 250 million people in Portugal, Brazil, and other former Portuguese colonies. It is the eighth most spoken language and the third most spoken European language in the world. It is one of the five Romance languages, besides Spanish, French, Italian and Romanian. The difference between Brazilian and European Portuguese is far wide, including variations in phonology, verb conjugation, and syntax.

Portuguese spoken in:
Angola, Andorra, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea Bissau, Luxembourg, Macau (China), Mozambique, Namibia, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe and other countries

Spanish is the most widely spoken of the Romance languages, both in terms of number of speakers and the number of countries in which it is the dominant language. It is the mother tongue of some 320 million people scattered throughout the world – in the Iberian Peninsula, the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, in parts of Morocco and the west coast of Africa.

Naturally the Spanish spoken in all these places appears in many varieties. In fact the differences between Castilian Spanish and Latin American Spanish are equivalent to those between British English and American English.

Spanish spoken in:
Spain, Balearic Islands, Canary Islands, all the South American
Republics except Brazil and Guyana

Filipino-speakers who are not of the Tagalog group of peoples consider Filipino the proper term. Technically, Filipino is considered a variant of the native Tagalog language of the Philippines. Practically speaking, however, Filipino and Tagalog are essentially the same language. The Filipino language derived and previously referred to as Filipino and was not declared the official language of the Philippines until 1987.

There are between 120 and 175 languages/dialects in the Philippines! Four languages no longer have any known speaker. Filipino(Tagalog) and English are the official languages while Chavacano, Hiligaynon, Ilocano, Kapampangan, Kinaray-a, Maguindanao, Maranao, Pangasinan, Tagalog, Tausug, Waray-Waray are considered auxiliary.

Filipino (Tagalog) spoken in: The Philippines

Vietnamese is the official language of Vietnam, which became the official administrative language in the 20th century and spoken by over 70 million people. Much of Vietnamese vocabulary has been borrowed from Chinese, most notably Cantonese. As a byproduct of French colonial, the language displays influence from French and writing adapted version of the Latin alphabet.

Vietnamese spoken in: Viet Nam

Linguists do not agreed on whether Teochew is a language or a dialect and is considered one of the oldest Chinese idioms.  Most agree it should be a language since it is unintelligible with other dialect groups of China. Teochew migrants have settled and can be found almost anywhere in the world including the United States.

America Translating Services has in many occasions provided interpreters for Teochew language/dialect speakers in different areas of the US.  It is without saying the challenge this presents and the research involved in order to locate an interpreter that meets the qualifications required for an effective communication.

Teochew is not a certified or a registered language. However, many Cantonese & Taiwanese interpreters are proficient in Teochew and capable to interpret in a legal and medical setting.