Comments on: What Languages Should You Know if You Want to Travel the World Freely

By: Mikeh71

Mikeh71 — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 06:02:00 +0000

I would have to disagree with Standard Arabic because many educated arabs would speak to you in english or french maybe Egyptian Arabic my be a better choice. I would love to see MSA as a worldwide lingua franca. 1500 years of history and a beautiful script whats not to like;-)

If any Arab speakers are out there let me know if you encountered the same problem.

By: tmet

tmet — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 22:42:00 +0000

German!

By: Bob54

Bob54 — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 20:05:00 +0000

French is spoken in :

Afrique : Bénin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroun, Cap-Vert, Comores, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Égypte, Gabon, Guinée équatoriale, Guinée-Bissau, Madagascar, Mali, Maroc, Mauritanie, Niger, République centrafricaine, République démocratique du Congo, République du Congo, Rwanda, Sénégal, Seychelles, Tchad, Togo, Tunisie
Amérique : Canada, Haïti
Asie: Cambodge, Laos, Liban, Viêt Nam
Europe : Albanie, Andorre, Arménie, Belgique, Bulgarie, France, Grèce, Hongrie, Lituanie, Luxembourg, Macédoine, Moldavie, Monaco, Pologne, République tchèque, Roumanie, Slovaquie, Slovénie, Suisse
Océanie : Vanuatu, nouvelle Calédonie,Polynésie Française.

It is spoken buy 500 Millions peoples in the world and is involved in 25% of the international business, French is the second most influent and important language to know after English.

By: Duval

Duval — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 19:55:00 +0000

Dude french is spoken on 75 countries and it’s the only languages with english that is spoken on every continents, plus the best place on the world speaks it !

check this out http://www.joliecaledonie.com/index-en.html

By: ahalan wa3selan

ahalan wa3selan — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 03:15:00 +0000

i would recomend also hindi as it is common to find or even urdu

By: Josephine

Josephine — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:05:34 +0000

Hm, Mandarin being spoken only in China is a severe misconception, I should think. Because of Chinese immigrants in the past, you will find a substantial number of people speaking Mandarin here in Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and the South-east Asian region. There are bound to be Chinese people everwhere (even in England or U.S.A or Canada where English is normally thought of as enough) …

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:58:57 +0000

I agree with your list, though I'd actually say that French is more important than Mandarin and if I had to chuck one or the other, it'd be Mandarin, because Mandarin is really only used INSIDE China only, whereas French is much, much more widespread.

Cheers,
Andrew

By: Zane Claes

Zane Claes — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 05:09:54 +0000

I think there is a good argument to keep French in there, though at the bottom of the list. I believe French is still the diplomatic language of the world, which means that although it may not be the primary language of many countries it is still very useful as a way to communicate in some places.

By: Randy

Randy — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 04:19:42 +0000

Hey, cool list! As you know, it inspired me to write my own.
http://www.fluenteveryyear.com/2010/04/my-compl...

By: My “complete world traveler” language list | Fluent Every Year

My “complete world traveler” language list | Fluent Every Year — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:37:48 +0000

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