Verb conjugation of "favorire" in Italian

The third and forth largest economies in the world are growing due to the fact that the countries were investing large resources in education, including foreign language acquisition. English, in this case, was the dominant language.
I think that it is easy to find new students, as many of them have already visited schools in Switzerland or Germany, but most of them have been to Berlin. Spanish learning is less common these days.
Thank you for correcting my mistakes. I am really grateful for that and this is exactly what I wanted, I just think about whether something similar exists also in English. I doubt it.