what is the most popular foreign language that everyone is learning?

[welst10]

Originally posted by: FleshLight

Originally posted by: Solodays
this may sound a bit strange butta mexicans speaks spanish and the country is not worthy and all but spanish language is very popular around the world. hmmmmmmm

Around the world as in Spain, Mexico, and U.S.?

and in most of S. America

 

[caivoma]

chinese but i give up after a while.

 

[Solodays]

Originally posted by: FleshLight

Originally posted by: Solodays
this may sound a bit strange butta mexicans speaks spanish and the country is not worthy and all but spanish language is very popular around the world. hmmmmmmm

Around the world as in Spain, Mexico, and U.S.?

not only that. i think it's also a popular foreign language in asia too. i pretty sure english remains no.1 in asia.

 

[Wahsapa]

Originally posted by: welst10

Originally posted by: FleshLight

Originally posted by: Solodays
this may sound a bit strange butta mexicans speaks spanish and the country is not worthy and all but spanish language is very popular around the world. hmmmmmmm

Around the world as in Spain, Mexico, and U.S.?

and in most of S. America

a lot of chinese are learning spanish too

and why bump old threads?

 

[DaWhim]

Originally posted by: Solodays
which part in china? what is the population in china that speak cantonese?

Hong Kong = Cantonese and some parts in Canton.

 

[Peetoeng]

Originally posted by: Solodays
why is English the choosen International language and not others?

Try these (in addition to what has been posted)

2/5 of the world was Britain!
1 billion Indians cannot be wrong.
Hollywood
American software industry
....

EDIT: I should have learnt spanish when I lived in AZ. My venezuelan buddy told me that with spanish it's easy to learn portuguese and italian; french comes from the same romantic root, but more difficult.

 

[Solodays]

Originally posted by: Peetoeng

Originally posted by: Solodays
why is English the choosen International language and not others?

Try these (in addition to what has been posted)

2/5 of the world was Britain!
1 billion Indians cannot be wrong.
Hollywood
American software industry
....

EDIT: I should have learnt spanish when I lived in AZ. My venezuelan buddy told me that with spanish it's easy to learn portuguese and italian; french comes from the same romantic root, but more difficult.

what does hollywood and indians have anything to do with english as the choosen international language?

 

[Wahsapa]

Originally posted by: Solodays

Originally posted by: Peetoeng

Originally posted by: Solodays
why is English the choosen International language and not others?

Try these (in addition to what has been posted)

2/5 of the world was Britain!
1 billion Indians cannot be wrong.
Hollywood
American software industry
....

EDIT: I should have learnt spanish when I lived in AZ. My venezuelan buddy told me that with spanish it's easy to learn portuguese and italian; french comes from the same romantic root, but more difficult.

what does hollywood and indians have anything to do with english as the choosen international language?

i suggest a history book that can be found at your local public library :thumbsup:

 

[cronos]

english.

no poll?

 

[Solodays]

nt

 

[zoiks]

swahili.

 

[z0mb13]

I am asian, so chinese

 

[sandorski]

English. Right there in the name it shows its' origin, England. Technically it is even Foreign to the US! 😉

 

[ed21x]

Originally posted by: RabidMongoose

Originally posted by: Solodays<BR>

Originally posted by: glen<BR>

Originally posted by: Solodays<BR>

Originally posted by: glen<BR>

Originally posted by: Solodays<BR>I knew it was ENGLISH. but since WHEN and WHY did ENGLISH first became the International, or the second favorable language for other foreigners?

<BR>When the English-speaking folks controlled more technology and capital than any other lanuage.<BR>So, my guess is somewhere between 1850 and 1900.

<BR><BR><BR><BR>hm? i thought the Japanese have more advanced technology than the U.S.

<BR>Not then or now, and certainly not in combined tech and money.<BR>Don't confuse Japanese consumers love of the latest robot Dog/cemera phone with research dollars, and things like landing a man on the moon.<BR><BR>😀

<BR><BR>i always thought the japanese have the best electronics.

<BR><BR>Ummm...the US is the technological leader in the world. It performs, by far, the most research and development.

my sarcasm meter is broken... you're joking, right?

 

[BespinReactorShaft]

Easier than what? English is a hard language.

I second that. And I don't buy that cwap about it being lingua franca.

 

[ed21x]

Originally posted by: RabidMongoose

Originally posted by: Solodays<BR>

Originally posted by: glen<BR>

Originally posted by: Solodays<BR>

Originally posted by: glen<BR>

Originally posted by: Solodays<BR>I knew it was ENGLISH. but since WHEN and WHY did ENGLISH first became the International, or the second favorable language for other foreigners?

<BR>When the English-speaking folks controlled more technology and capital than any other lanuage.<BR>So, my guess is somewhere between 1850 and 1900.

<BR><BR><BR><BR>hm? i thought the Japanese have more advanced technology than the U.S.

<BR>Not then or now, and certainly not in combined tech and money.<BR>Don't confuse Japanese consumers love of the latest robot Dog/cemera phone with research dollars, and things like landing a man on the moon.<BR><BR>😀

<BR><BR>i always thought the japanese have the best electronics.

<BR><BR>Ummm...the US is the technological leader in the world. It performs, by far, the most research and development.

my sarcasm meter is broken... you're joking, right?

 

[cucumber]

Originally posted by: FleshLight

Originally posted by: Solodays
this may sound a bit strange butta mexicans speaks spanish and the country is not worthy and all but spanish language is very popular around the world. hmmmmmmm

Around the world as in Spain, Mexico, and U.S.?

It seems like a very widely known language.

I have no statistical facts, but some friends of mine spent a summer in Europe, and when people didn't understand english too well, they understood spanish (my friends speak spanish too). This wasn't Spain either. This was in Germany, Poland, and Holland.

 

[BespinReactorShaft]

Whatever happened to Esperanto?

 

[element]

C

 

[nietsni3]

i heard somewhere taht they nearly chose Spanish as the official language to use in international meeting in Europe and UN. then somehow English prevailed

 

[suklee]

Where's the poll?

 

[element]

ok C++ for those of you pansies not so hardcore

 

[Solodays]

i heard somewhere taht they nearly chose Spanish as the official language to use in international meeting in Europe and UN. then somehow English prevailed

what's so special about the spanish language?

 

[Gamingphreek]

Im in AP English 11 and AP Latin. Junior year in high school is insane.

-Kevin

 

[element]

Originally posted by: Solodays

i heard somewhere taht they nearly chose Spanish as the official language to use in international meeting in Europe and UN. then somehow English prevailed

what's so special about the spanish language?

well for one thing words are spelled the way they sound