Tier 1:
>English
Tier 2:
>Chinese
>Spanish/Portuguese
Tier 3:
>Russian
>Arabic
>French
>Japanese
Tier 4:
>Hindi
>Malay
(Note: If everyone in your country speaks English, that hurts your ranking)
Language Power Ranking
Daniel Gray
Other urls found in this thread:
weforum.org
cvc.cervantes.es
french.server276.com
researchgate.net
youtube.com
dspace.mit.edu
language.media.mit.edu
twitter.com
Hunter Williams
Patrician tier:
>English
>French
>Levantine Arabic
>Russian
>Cantonese
Pleb tier:
>Mandarin
>Japanese
>Korean
>Spanish
Nathan Nguyen
If there have been any actual studies/legitimate articles about this, feel free to post them. I'd be curious about this
Josiah Ortiz
Tier 12:
>Non-English Germanic languages
>Non-Russian Slavic languages
>Korean
John Ortiz
To answer my own question since there probably aren't going to be any serious ones in this thread: weforum.org
Camden Hernandez
Tier 1:
>Italiano
tier other
>merda
William Lee
Great.
Now take your list and account for the fact that I can go to Germany without knowing German and still communicate. Whereas I can't do the same in Japan.
Account for the fact that someone learning Portuguese can basically understand Spanish and vice versa, with minimal extra learning.
Jace Reyes
>cantonese above mandarin
No
Jose Jenkins
t. English teacher that doesn't even speak English as a native language
Samuel Russell
there's no theoretical framework behind the ranking, no definition of "powerful", no reason behind why they chose to select those factors (most of the time just because they are the available ones), weird weightings, etc.