Social Out of these languages of the world - Which 4 would you like to learn?

[Takes Two To Tango]

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/100-most-spoken-languages/

I'm assuming everyone knows how to speak English on Sherdog. So I didn't include that language on the poll.

If I had to pick it would be Spanish, German, French and Japanese.

 

[Provocateur]

Mandarin would be helpful where I live.

 

[TeTe]

Spanish cause so many people speak here obviously
Mandarin so I can spy on our future overlords
Portuguese so I can go to Brazil and communicate easily with all of the hotties I impregnate. (Same with Spanish in Columbia).

 

[BlankaPresident]

What is that map?

 

[boingyman]

Cantonese would be my first choice since my wife is from Hong Kong. Then Mandarin and Spanish. Not sure on the 4th one. I know some Japanese, but may be worth being fluent.

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

What is that map?

It's just a silly map, I'm not sure why I posted it. lol.

 

[TeTe]

Interesting that English is most common language spoken in almost all of these Middle Eastern Countries and India.

 

[Bos Docken]

Learn Mandarin, Hindi, Spanish and Arabic, on top of English, and you will be able to communicate with around 3.8 billion people. Half the world's population

 

[Winston Wolf]

Japanese, Italian, German and French, in that order

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

Learn Mandarin, Hindi, Spanish and Arabic, on top of English, and you will be able to communicate with around 3.8 billion people. Half the world's population

That's fucken insane, thanks for that information.

 

[Zinger]

Kazakh
Polish
Estonian
Lithuanian

 

[Sonny Qc]

Spanish because of Latin Girls
Japanese because of japanese chicks
Portugese because I dream to move into one of the Azores Island when I get older,
and litteraly fuck off with the rest of the world.

 

[Oeshon]

already speak 2 of them, so i'd say these 4

Japanese
German
Mandarin
Arabic

 

[Zookeeper Gabe]

I’d like to be fluent in French (I can speak it somewhat and read it) and I’d add Norwegian to the list.

 

[NoSmilez]

Probably Spanish. I want to travel to South America but it's full of trickery. I just want tacos lol

 

[Ares Black]

Currently learning French and Arabic on Duolingo

 

[Fedorgasm]

Learn Spanish to speak to your employees, and Chinese to speak to your bosses.

 

[ookii]

Persians don't speak persian. They speak farsi

 

[Brazilian007]

I speak 3 of them or am getting better at the 3rd.

I choose Hindi, Mandarian, Arabic, Indonesian


If you dont know any of these the logical 4 ones in terms of use of power and importance globally would be


Spanish
Mandarian
Russian
Arabic

All in regions with growing numbers and geopolitical importance and all regions with few English speakers and a preference for the local langugage

Learn Mandarin, Hindi, Spanish and Arabic, on top of English, and you will be able to communicate with around 3.8 billion people. Half the world's population

Change Arabic for Russian in my opinion. The thing is Arabic has 4 major dialects they arent all intelligible (understandable) between one another. There is 350 million Arab speakers but only 150 million speak Modern standard and can communicate with one another. Some sources say its 270 million modern standard speakers but practically none speak it as a first langugage and the levels of fluency vary immensely.

By comparison according to Ethnologue Russian has 300 million to 320 million. And had up to 350 million people spoke it when the Soviet Union collapsed. Russian holding 200 million first langugage speakers with the rest speaking it as a 2nd langugage. Russian is on the rise in Israel, UAE, Iran and the Central Asian post soviet states and Russian is the official langugage of the Eurasian Union (Russia version of the EU which is expanding). Russian langugage also growing in Iran with potential given its population size and Russian has 1 standard form compared to Arabic. When you speak Arabic as a professional at the UN to translate you have to speak modern standard and also 1 other major dialect of Arabic. Lastly Arabic losses some of its own ground to English by choice in Morocco, and some Gulf states. The Arab world is also more accomodating to English than the Russian world.

 

[Tone C]

I'd chose French, already speak it etc but it's rusty.

Chuck in Spanish , Italian and Greek , would like to retire to one of those..