Learning foreign languages has crucial importance, especially in our world of globalization. Being able to speak more foreign languages makes people much more confident, flexible and more suitable for filling certain vacancies. European citizens speaking several foreign languages properly are highly appreciated by employers in the labour market. After its accession to the European Union in 2004 Hungary considers learning foreign languages to be much more important since one of the aims of the European Union is to encourage people to be “plurilingual” citizens. As Hungarian is not a widely-spoken foreign language among EU citizens, it is much more crucial for our country to encourage Hungarian people to learn as many languages as they can in order to be more competitive.