Friends of apricity according to you after English which language they consider most important?

**Ruggery** · 05-01-2018, 03:36 AM

Please your opinion.

**♥ Lily ♥** · 05-01-2018, 03:54 AM

Chinese Mandarin.

China (a nation of over 1 billion people) has huge spending power for trade deals and tourism spending.

Over the last few years I've seen lots of news reports about a lot of European nations, the US, Canada and Australia, etc, all trying to encourage more Chinese tourists to their nations and writing signs in both English and Chinese Mandarin in stores to attract more Chinese tourists, as the average Chinese tourist spends more money than other tourists spend.

The average Chinese tourist currently spends over twice as much money than the average American, European, wealthy Arab, or Indian tourist spends.

Chinese tourists and trade buyers are beneficial for other nations businesses and economies.

Also, I've seen news reports from the UK and US about some children in both nations being taught Chinese Mandarin in schools as a second language instead of traditionally being taught German or French in English secondary/senior schools as a second language, as our government have publicly said that Chinese Mandarin will be a more useful second language for the future generations in trade, tourism, business and commerce, etc.

English is the official international language of business meetings, international aviation communication, engineering, computer programming, the internet, science publications, etc... but French is the traditional international language of diplomacy meetings - although it's been overtaken by English.

English is used as the lingua franca in India as it's a neutral language for them which doesn't give dominance to any single Indian language within the numerous languages spoken in their nation. Currently India (a nation of 1.2 billion people,) are the world's third largest English language book producers, and they're a rising superpower nation who've been spending a lot on their space exploration, their powerful military, and their massive Bollywood film industry, etc.

The US, Canada, France, the UK, Germany and Italy are powerful G7 nations with rich economies, but about 5 of the world's top ten financial cities in the globe are English speaking cities.

They plan to build twice as many skyscrapers within the next decade here...

**Ruggery** · 05-01-2018, 04:08 AM

Originally Posted by ♥ Lily ♥

Chinese Mandarin.

China has huge spending power for trade and tourism spending.

Over the last few years I've seen lots of news reports about a lot of European nations, the US, Canada and Australia, etc, all trying to encourage more Chinese tourists to their nations and writing signs in both English and Chinese Mandarin in stores to attract more Chinese tourists, as the average Chinese tourist spends more money than other tourists spend.

Also, I've seen news reports from the UK and US about some children in both nations being taught Chinese Mandarin in schools as a second language instead of traditionally being taught German or French as a second language, as our government have said it'll be a very useful second language for the future generations in trade, tourism, and commerce, etc.

English is the official international language of business meetings, aviation communication, engineering, computer programming, the internet, science publications, etc... but French is the traditional international language of diplomacy, although it's been overtaken by English.

English is used as the lingua franca in India as it's a neutral language which doesn't give dominance to the numerous languages in their nation. Currently India is the world's third largest English language book producers.

The US, Canada, France, the UK, Germany and Italy are powerful G7 nations with rich economies, but about 5 of the world's top financial cities in the globe are English speaking cities.

China is a nation that is growing at an impressive rate and one of the possible candidates to dethrone the USA from the world's leading power.

**Jacques de Imbelloni** · 05-01-2018, 04:22 AM

Spanish
French
Chinese Mandarin

**~~Heather Duval~~** · 05-01-2018, 04:26 AM

Spanish
French
Italian

And Portuguese because Brazil is mainstream.

**~~TEUTORIGOS~~** · 05-01-2018, 05:46 AM

Originally Posted by Ruggery

Please your opinion.

The funny thing is that about 60% of the vocabulaire anglais (English vocabulary) comes from du régime français (of the French regime). English words ending in ent, ant, ible, able etc... are french.

If you lack ontological sophistication then French, Spanish, German and mandarin will all add to your net worth on a resume (resume is a French word btw). However :

Mandarin is hard to learn for Westerners and French much easier. Since I am ontologically sophisticated I chose French for aesthetic rather than monetary reasons --French is pure silk to my ear :