Question about Language!?

Question

people, got a difficult question.....
WHAT IS THE MOST POPULAR EUROPEAN LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD AT THIS CENTURY?
according to my knowledgy, Chinese is important when we are in Asia. English is important when we alive (hahah)
how about in European country? Italian? French? Dutch?
anything?
thanks you for those people who reply my complex question!!!!

ok!!!!here comes some details !!
i'm good at Mandarin & English. and now the next language i wanna to learn is the something about European. That's why i'm asking which language is the most people spoken in Europe.(besides English)

Answer 1

In terms of the number of people who speak a particular language then English is the most popular European language with 480 million speakers worldwide followed by Spanish with 332 million speakers worldwide. These are respectively the 2nd and 3rd most widely spoken languages in the world.

Mandarin Chinese is comfortably the world's most widely spoken language with 1,120 million speakers (Chinese of all dialects has about one and half billion speakers)

The 10 most popular European languages are...

1 English - 480 million speakers (2nd worldwide)
2 Spanish - 332 million speakers (3rd worldwide)
3 Portuguese - 170 million speakers (8th worldwide)
4 German - 98 million speakers (10th worldwide)
5 French - 72 million speakers (14th worldwide)
6 Turkish - 69 million speakers (15th worldwide)
7 Italian - 59 million speakers (21st worldwide)
8 Polish - 44 million speakers (26th worldwide)
9 Romanian - 26 million speakers (36th worldwide)
10 Dutch - 20 million (48th worldwide)

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It becomes more difficult when you try to define which is the most important language as it depends who you are and where you are. Given the number of speakers of English and Spanish I guess it would be fair to say that in a global sense at least, these are the two most important European languages.

Answer 2

In Europe, I think the most popular language would be English or French. French is actually the official language of many things, even such as the Olympics! In the world, the most popular European language, I'm guessing, would be Spanish or French.

Oh, and don't listen to Chri R about the Germans refusing to learn English... they actually are REQUIRED to learn it since 5th grade all the way through the rest of their days at Gymnasium (similar to American high schools). The older generations, however, may not tend to remember it well and weren't required to take it for such a long amount of time. Trust me, I LIVED there. It seems like everything is in English, really! Too much, I'd say. Why not strictly keep their own culture and language? I wish they'd do more of that. lol Anyway...

Answer 3

It's not that the question is necessarily difficult so much as it's hard to tell what it is.

Are you asking what European language is spoken by the most people in the world? Or in Europe? Or what language people "like most" in the world, or in Europe?

A lot of people all over the world speak English -- England and its former colonies. Ditto Spanish.

May if we knew what makes you ask, we'd have a better idea of what it is you're asking.

Answer 4

The European language that is most popular and most spoken in the world is English.

Answer 5

Spanish. It is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world right now, only behind Chinese I believe, but only due to the shear number of Chinese people. English, however, is the language of commerce and anyone who wants to do well in the business world should speak it. I am of the firm belief that we should all be at the very least bi-lingual, it is very limiting to only speak one language, plus it is good for preventing senility and dementia problems in old age.

Answer 6

Well!!! A classical language, is a language with a literature that's classical— i.e., it will have to be historical, it will have to be an unbiased culture that arose customarily on its possess, no longer as an offshoot of a different culture, and it ought to have a huge and particularly wealthy frame of historical literature. How Tamil is classical? Claims concerning the "Primary Classicality of Tamil": one million. Lemurian beginning two. Phonological simplicity three. Catholicity . four. Tamulic substratum of the Aryan household of languages. five. Morphological purity and primitiveness . 6. The presence of the phrases ‘amma’ and ‘appa’ in just about all high-quality languages in a few kind or different. 7. Absence of Nominative case-termination . eight. Separability and importance of all affixes . nine. Absence of morphological gender 10. Absence of arbitrary phrases eleven. Traceability of Tamil to its very beginning. 12. Logical and typical order of phrases . thirteen. Absence of twin quantity . 14. Originality and typical growth . 15. Highest order of the classicality . Classical Languages in India: one million. Tamil two. Sanskrit three. Kannada four . Telugu Classical Languages on the earth (as opposed to Indian): one million. Sumerian two. Egyptian three. Babylonian four. Hebrew five. Chinese 6. Greek 7. Latin * Though the primary 3 languages exitsed together with all 7, most effective the latter four together with Tamil and Sanskrit are known as as Worlds Classical languages

Answer 7

obviously the european languages are evolving,towards eachother..
top 5 europe native tongues..
german 24%
french 16%
english 16%
italian 16%
spanish 11%
top 5 foreing language skills
english 47%
german 32%
french 28%
italian 18%
spanish 15%
so i think its fair to say,that german is the most spoken language in europe,as a native tongue..,english is the most used second language.

http://ec.europa.eu/education/policies/lang/languages/index_en.html

Answer 8

English, French and Spanish

Answer 9

Most of us do speak English as 2nd language, except the Germans and the French, they refuse.

Answer 10

Ofcourse English!