This is the world's most powerful language TOP10

It's mainly because Canada, not France.

Seems about right, I'd say.

I’m offended because you’re wrong on top of being a nigger

Just tell me how Spanish is more viable to learn than German?

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It won't be when all of the ethnic Germans disappear.

You can keep saying it but it doesn't make it true

French is used almost the same as English in international politics in some contexts. See the expositions in the Hague (they are televised) between random countries and you'll see what I mean.

How tf do they measure the "power" of a language?

Swap French and Spanish then bump Russian up to 4th place.
Other than France, some of Canada and some of Switzerland (which would put it on par with German) it's pretty much useless. Nigeria alone has a larger economy than the entirety of the African Francosphere.

There were five standards.

>1. The ability to travel widely
>2. The ability to earn a livelihood
>3. The ability to communicate with others
>4. The ability to acquire knowledge and consume media
>5. The ability to engage in diplomacy

I think it's mostly right, but:

Mandarin should definitely be above French. Mandarin is extremely hard for outsiders to learn, but it shouldn't be underestimated how many people speak it and how much stuff they do, and how relevant it will be in the future.

Arabic shouldn't be ranked 6th. What would the arab world be if it didn't have oil? Not much, is the answer. They have numbers of people but those people don't actually do anything constructive.

Japanese should definitely be above German and probably even Russian.

Most of the western hemisphere uses it, it has about four times as many speakers as German

French and spanish shouldn't be on the list. They are only useful for speaking with poor brown and black people.

>2. French
Meme

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France alone is wealthier than russia

>hindi

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>Spanish is only 4th

loool

The most popular song on Youtube is in Spanish.

where is american language?

I think Russian's more powerful than Japanese because the former USSR is one of the few areas of the world that you'd struggle to get around only knowing English (outside of Moscow, St Petersburg and the Baltics). Japanese English proficiency is terrible but it's significantly better than the Russians.

A lot of different countries.

I really doubt that you can have a comfy live in a province of Latvia or Lithuania knowing only English.

Estonians larping as a English-friendly nation, but I doubt about this too.

>Japanese should definitely be above German and probably even Russian.
Delusional, maybe above russian by inches but your weeb mentality has fucked your thinking up

1. English
2. Spanish
3. French
4. Arabic
5. Russian
6. Portuguese
7. Mandarin
8. Hindi
9. German
10. Indonesian

It's not just about the number of speakers

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Balts have awesome accent in Russian.

youtube.com/watch?v=mXxzy3HdOFc

the song is from 0:40, if you don't want to listen the musical intro

In 2100, French will have surpassed English and Mandarin in number of speakers, due to crazy population growth in Africa, which happens to be mostly French speaking.

>7. Mandarin

My sides. You are extremely delusional.

>which happens to be mostly French speaking.
Anglo-Africa's more populous and wealthier than Franco-Africa though. Nigeria alone as 200,000,000 people at least, while there are only thought to be 280,000,000 French speakers in the world.

How come?

>portuguese
>powerful language

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bigthink.com/politics-current-affairs/china-worlds-biggest-economy-2020

So the worse countries education - the more relevant its language? By that logic hindi, arabic and suahili more relevant than german, french and spanish.

>G*rman
>Japanese
>Powerful
Meme. Can't wait till Swahili or Indonesian or something will surpass these two.

He's not wrong. Mandarin isn't even the only language spoken in China. Mandarin is isolated in China not to mention difficult for people to really learn.

Most people you will do business with in China speak English or another language anyway, there really no reason to learn Mandarin unless you plan on living in China.

Yeah, so retarded, better say brazilian language.

Kind of, the size of the economy also comes into play though. For example, it's pretty much pointless to learn Swedish because virtually all Swedes know English. However, it'd still be more useful to know Swedish than Chewa, even though there are more Zambians than Swedes, because Sweden has a far larger economy and you're more likely to encounter them in working life.

Ok here comes my objectively correct ranking
1. English
2. Chinese
3. German = Spanish
5. Russian
6. French
7. Japanese
8. Portuguese
9. Arabic
10. Korean

>big think
Lmao
The Chinese will just learn English.
The geographical spread of Mandarin is too small and the language is too hard, especially for westerners to learn. It also has almost no relevance in international organisations whatsoever. Even APEC and ASEAN use English as an official language. Using non-latin alphabet at this point is a burden, and having regional variants in Mandarin that are not mutually intelligible is just ridiculous.

Here's a few good examples why Mandarin is overhyped.
time.com/3585847/mandarin-lingua-franca/

95% of english growth is Nigeria and India, talk about demographics

>consume media

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>two biggest warmongers in the world are the top 2
makes me activate a particular type of seed...

Actually true, everytime I try to search for something in portuguese all the results are in some niggerish dialect that apezillians use

Good to know swedes could easily understand me

kek

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French > Chinese

yeah no

>japanese
>portuguese

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>other 10%
pretty powerful language if you ask my ass

DES

>7 out of 10 are Indo-Aryan
why did we allow this

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>64.6 million who cant pronounce q j or p

>Korean above Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu)
Eh.

Change the rank of French and Spanish.

>due to crazy population growth in Africa
most of them die dude and when they improve they will stop breeding
delusion

>5. Russian
>8. Portuguese
Number of russian speakers is comparable with number of portuguese speakers and economy of Brasilia is comparable to economy of Russia. I think this languages must be closer in rating.

U MAD CHINKS?

>Korean in the top 10

Based.

Why should I or anyone else care about Hindustani?

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English and Spanish and you have access to almost the entire world. Everything else is a waste of time.

>French is used almost the same as English in international politics in some contexts.
Yeah nah

Seems legit for now.

why do these people think French and Spanish will ever matter?
do they seriously believe the number of shitskins and niggers speaking your language matters?

French is likely up there because of its use in so many international organisations, not for the people/countries that use it.