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| lichtrausch Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5979 days ago 525 posts - 1072 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Japanese Studies: Korean, Mandarin | Message 1 of 68 12 October 2011 at 4:10am | IP Logged | |||||
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This isn't a scientific poll so you can interpret the question freely. It would be interesting to know the reason for your choice as well.
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| mandalore Newbie United States Joined 5479 days ago 4 posts - 6 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 2 of 68 12 October 2011 at 4:54am | IP Logged | |||||
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I voted for Chinese/Mandarin because of its use in what is both the most populated country in the world and the world's second largest economy.
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| nway Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/Vic Joined 5434 days ago 574 posts - 1707 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean | Message 3 of 68 12 October 2011 at 6:14am | IP Logged | |||||
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This is a strictly regional matter.
If you live in Albania, the second most important language is English, which of course follows Albanian. Each of these five languages is useless outside of the geographic regions to which they're confined. I know this wasn't what you meant, but this really is the truth of the matter. It's all regional. But since you were of course referring to the "statistically" most "important" from a "universal" perspective, hours upon hours upon hours of personal research has suggested this: 1. Chinese 2/3. Spanish / French 4/5. Arabic/Russian In the future, Russian and French will likely drop relative to their tied counterparts. Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut... Since I already did all the work, I may as well post some screenshots from my own personal archive: 2050 population: 
Film industries by monetary value: 
Projected GDP growth, per capita: 
Global cities: 
Life expectancy per GDP per capita (PPP): 
^ This one measures the healthfulness of linguistic populations' lifestyles. I equalized the scale such that Hong Kong and Mainland China amount to the same, which intuitively makes sense, since they're the same culture, despite their differing levels of wealth. Life expectancy per GDP per capita (PPP): 
^ I simply illustrated the table above. You should be able to figure out the color scheme from the data... Student achievement: 
^ I believe the color scheme is relative to the US. Data from the OECD's 2009 PISA. Countries in grey aren't measured. Nominal GDP: 
Popularity: 
^ "Popularity" derived from Google queries such as, "I wish I could speak ____". Self-explanatory: 
Composites of various variables: 
Composite of Steinke and T-Index: 
Top universities from 2010 rankings: 
Languages of leading cities by various variables: 
Demographic vitality: 
^ Life expectancy divided by median age. Business and wealth: 
Wikipedias (intellectual stock): 
Various raw data, some projected: 
^ "Market" is current stock market capitalization. "IQ" is the composite of the OECD's 2009 PISA. "English" is the level of English fluency typical of the languages' speakers. Well, that's it. Each of these is the result of hours upon hours of research, and of course this was a very brisk presentation of them all, with much left unsaid. If anyone has any questions regarding the data, sources, or methodologies used, feel free to ask. Edited by nway on 12 October 2011 at 7:22am 18 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6569 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 4 of 68 12 October 2011 at 2:17pm | IP Logged | |||||
Huh? Do you really believe that? 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| nway Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/Vic Joined 5434 days ago 574 posts - 1707 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean | Message 5 of 68 12 October 2011 at 5:45pm | IP Logged | |||||
When those "geographic regions" include diasporic populations and concentrated areas of secondary learners, yes, of course. This is somewhat of a definitional fact. (I'm of course referring to face-to-face communication—not the Internet, mass media, and other forms of telecommunication.) Edited by nway on 12 October 2011 at 5:46pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Mad Max Tetraglot Groupie Spain Joined 5070 days ago 79 posts - 146 votes Speaks: Spanish*, French, English, Russian Studies: Arabic (classical) | Message 6 of 68 12 October 2011 at 7:13pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Well, we can consider two Hemispheres, and the 3 most important languages are:
- Western Hemisphere: Mother tongue, English and Spanish. - Eastern Hemisphere: Mother tongue, English and Chinese. In short, it is obvious that English is the global language. The second most important is Spanish or Chinese depending on the Hemisphere where you live. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5075 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 7 of 68 12 October 2011 at 7:21pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Certainly Mandarin. It can even replace English.
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| MarcusOdim Groupie Brazil Joined 4866 days ago 91 posts - 142 votes | Message 8 of 68 12 October 2011 at 8:07pm | IP Logged | |||||
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It can replace English, sure, in a billion years from now
1. English 2. Spanish 3. French 4. Mandarin ?. Something else, like German or Japanese, but not Russian nor Arabic 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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