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You could jump on the Chinese bandwagon like I have (very useful of course), but it depends on your situation. If you got a work placement in Japan then you'd be more sensible to learn Japanese first.Statistically, the most widely spoken language is Chinese, followed by English and Spanish, then Arabic. Surprisingly Portuguese, Japanese and German are ranked 8th, 9th and 10th.
However the decision about which language to study might be based on a employment potential. The most frequently studied foreign language in the US is Spanish, but French and German are surprisingly popular.
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∙ 15y agoThis depends on one's own individual circumstances, but there is certainly a small number of languages that would be most economical to learn, by virtue of the fact that they are used as common languages between groups of people whose native languages are not intelligible - these are called supercentral languages by sociologist Abram de Swaan, and they are:
Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Malay, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swahili
Fortunately for you, English is far and above the most used in this regard, even connecting the other supercentral languages. It could be considered the world's first hypercentral language.
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