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The study predicts the following changes in 40 years: * a 20% drop in the use of Mandarin * a 38% drop in the use of English * a 17% increase in the use of S

The study predicts the following changes in 40 years: * a 20% drop in the use of Mandarin * a 38% drop in the use of English * a 17% increase in the use of Spanish * a whopping 167% increase in the use of French Hmm, hmm. Yeah, no. Don't learn French. If you already know English, learn Spanish. It's easier to learn, the grammar is gentler, it's widely used, people who speak it tend to be a little more relaxed when it gets mangled by the rest of us.... (Full disclosure: French is so close to a mother tongue for me it's not even funny, and is a mother tongue, along with English, for my daughter. Spanish is my third strongest language, much stronger than the few others I've learned and sort of lost.)

pacofvf 12y ago
according to this study: http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/world-2050/assets/pwc-world-in-2050-report-january-2013.pdf http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/world-2050/assets/pwc-world-in-2050... Mexico will be the 7th economy in the world by 2050, Spain and Argentina 15th and 20th respectively. In the US 1/4th of the population will be Hispanic in 2050, although this doesn't mean that 1/4th of the population will be Spanish native speakers, at least promises a high level of Spanish proficiency, source: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/12/16/with-fewer-new-arrivals-census-lowers-hispanic-population-projections-2/ http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/12/16/with-fewer-n... If I could bet I'd put my money on Spanish.
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