<p>Which language is the most useful?</p>
<p>Depends on where you live.</p>
<p>USA = Spanish/French</p>
<p>I personally need to know Russian,French,English,Spanish where I live.(On the border to many countries)</p>
<p>It depends on where you live and/or what you want to do. I would say Spanish.</p>
<p>Spanish, but Latin is better.</p>
<p>It really depends on where you live.</p>
<p>In the USA:</p>
<p>German in the uppermidwest
Spanish in the south and east and west</p>
<p>I say French. It’s used more worldwide.</p>
<p>I think Latin is most useful. It is the basis of many languages such as French, Spanish, Italian, and most of the English language. Best of all, Latin has been proven to increase standardized test scores in math and English.</p>
<p>This comes from someone who took two years of Spanish and one of Latin. I span to take two more years of Latin.</p>
<p>Actually, swim2daend, Spanish is more widely spoken worldwide. I’d say Spanish is a good choice if you live in the US, especially in the southwestern states.</p>
<p>^ The first thing I was taught by all my French teachers is that French is the most spoken language worldwide. They speak it in the U.S> (louisiana), Canda, South America, Europe, and Africs (too lazy to specify where). However, French would only be themost helpful if you decide to do something in international affairs.</p>
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<p>Were your French teachers high?</p>
<p>^^^ i hope not… one did seem a little crazy though.</p>
<p>It’s possible that they were referring to the number of countries that speak it; I don’t know whether that’s true or not. But French is not close to being the most spoken language in the world. Mandarin is first by far in that category, and depending on the source English and Spanish go between 2nd and 3rd. </p>
<p><a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers</a> << Lists Spanish as #2 and English as #3
<a href=“http://www.photius.com/rankings/languages2.html[/url]”>http://www.photius.com/rankings/languages2.html</a> << English #2 and Spanish #3</p>
<p>It also depends on what you want to do with it, and how you’re defining “useful”.
If you’re in the US, for general communication usage: Spanish, in most areas.
If you want to build a base of grammar and vocabulary to help with standardized tests: Latin probably best, though romance languages will also help, as would Greek.
If you’re interested in literature: whatever country’s literature you want to study. French and Russian spring to mind as languages with a great amount of significant literature, but there’s certainly no deficit in Spanish, German, or just about anything else.</p>
<p>I took Spanish, because I live in Southern California and pretty much everyone here knows at least some basic Spanish.</p>
<p>If you’re looking for a language that’s easy to learn, consider German…from what I’ve heard it’s a lot like English (though I don’t know, I’ve never tried it).</p>
<p>I would highly recommend Spanish though, there’s a lot of cognates (that’s what those are called, yes?), and it’s pretty easy to learn.</p>
<p>You might also consider Latin. Once you know Latin you can learn Spanish, Italian and…I always forget the third one VERY easily. And there’s a ton of higher-level vocab words that are based in Latin. So it’s incredibly useful.</p>
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<p>Romance languages (read: languages derived from Latin) include Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian. So yeah.</p>
<p>^Exactly, what he said. 
Sankuu. ^_^</p>
<p>Um Chinese. Has anyone else mentioned that? Huh, how West-centric of you all :P</p>
<p>Not many schools offer Chinese.</p>
<p>At least, they don’t in my district, I don’t know about you guys.</p>
<p>chinese. u got a billion peoples speaking them
spanish is pretty useful because many jobs look for people that speak spanish</p>