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German by far. People here tend to look at number of speakers, but it's of relative importance. Portuguese has much more native speakers than German and is a pretty irrelevant language in the big arena of universal culture. The same for Spanish, less so for French and Italian, but still way behind German.
Learning German you have access to the most relevant intellectual tradition of Europe in the last 300 years. The language of Kant, Hegel, Marx, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Goethe, Kafka, Mann and many many others. Low IQ TA members aren't smart enough to understand that.
In terms of real relevance nowadays in the modern West, learning German is like learning Greek in the ancient Mediterranean or Sanskrit in the Buddhist Middle Ages. It's basically the main language of culture. Plebs were mostly speaking Latin in Late Antiquity, while the educated were speaking Greek.
As once said by a famous philosopher, you can only philosophize in German or Greek. Learning German you would have the windows of German culture open to you.
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