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[Samantha Liu]

What are the top five popular language in the world
What do you think are the top five or what do you prefer to learn?
For me, I like Chinese, English, Japanese, Spanish, but I have not learn Japanese and Spanish yet. I think I will learn them in the futrue.

[scottish_tiger]

mmmmmm, good question.

I would guess, in no particular order, that the top 5 languages of the world would be:

English,
Spanish,
Portugese,
Chinese,
Urdu (the Indian language)

Languages I have studied are completely different:

English (my mother tongue),
French (In High School),
Spanish (In university),
Japanese,
Korean

Having worked in both the last two countries. I also have basic skills in Italian & German from visits to both countries for vacations.

Anyone like to add to the list of top 5 languages in the world, or other languages that they speak?

Scottish Tiger
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[Snake777]

I like English, Chinese ( both Mandarin and Cantonese ),Japanese, French and Spanish
Too bad, I am not smart enough to master all of these languages . I'm learning English and Mandarin .
My English is fine,but my Mandarin sucks
I'll probably take Japanese class next year I'm not sure about French and Spanish

[hobo78]

My opinion is.
1. English.
2. Spanish.
3. Arabic.
4. French.
5. German.
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[sourwine]

It depends... ideal are languages with which you can cover a lot of countries and can communicate with a maximum of people. That would mean that

English
German (my native language so no big choice on this)
Spanish
Arabic and
Chinese

are in the list. But my personal Top 5 which I studiy / studied at least for a short time are

English
Spanish
Italian
Arabic
Hungarian