<p>French is not a “dying” language. Its influence is being shifted, but it’s not going away anytime soon.</p>
<p>French is useful in food, entertaining, art, and basically anything classy.</p>
<p>spanish
french
chinese most def
japanese</p>
<p>i wanna learn chinese so badly but not enough time and waay too many characters >.></p>
<p>Remember that Brazil, the most important country from Mexico and southwards, speaks Portuguese, not Spanish. Although you’d be hard pressed to find anybody seriously arguing for the global importance of Portuguese, it does however dilute the perhaps overrated importance of Spanish.</p>
<p>Francais!!!</p>
<p>1337!!!</p>
<p>To the OP, I really think it depends on which countries your interested in and what will suit your needs.</p>
<p>Me, for example, it’s French, because I plan on studying abroad in France. I took it in high school, but am going to continue with it because I find interesting and it’s worth my while.</p>
<p>I’d also like to learn other languages, such as German as well as Slavic languages such as Czech or Polish.</p>
<p>German because it is spoken by prominent European countires( Germany, Austria , Lux., Switzerland) German is also used for a lot of medical books and texts.</p>
<p>English by far the most important language. For example two businessmen from Germany and France meet. What language would they speak?. They speak English because English is the language of business and money.</p>
<p>Being brought up learning arabic, it wasnt hard to learn for me but i still dont know how to read or write in arabic (i probably have the level of a kindergartener lol) its hard!! the letters change alot, and its way more complicated than english or spanish. But its a beautiful language if u ask me :)</p>
<p>@ the person who said arabic/hebrew are the same… I’m fluent speaking arabic and i cant understand a word of hebrew… ??</p>
<p>I’m currently takking spanish and I am well aware of the fact that I am behind in my language studies. In order to make myself more appealing to colleges, I, a junior, am planning to perhaps study another language ON MY OWN. Is this endeavor too arduous or is it plausible? If it is, can someone recommend to me any other useful and unique languages. Also, provide a few tips on how to study. Any books? Methods? Tools?</p>
<p>Mandarin Chinese
Arabic</p>
<p>To sars: Learning a language on your own is much more difficult that being in a class, but it is possible. I’ve started to teach myself italian, and I think its very hard without the full help and practice you would get in a class. But if you really put yourself to it, i think you can do it. Find textbooks that a school would use - i reccomend going to highschools and asking them if they have old textbooks they would mind giving you if they were otherwise going to be thrown away. If you know any language teachers or professors - ask them what they reccomend doing or if they have any resources you could use. I would talk to anyone who is fluent in the language and practice speaking with them. Watch TV shows that are in the language you are going to teach yourself. Read books/listen to music…ect. I think to learn a language fluently, you need to hear it, read it, and speak it as much as possible. Hearing it is the most helpful to me…find what helps you learn it the most and work with that the most. But remember, you need all parts to learn it fully. I hope that helps and you are successful!</p>
<p>p.s - as for languages to study, I would choose Italian or French, since you have already started spanish, you will find its much easier to teach yourself a language that is similar. Italian is very similar to Spanish i think. 
If you decide on Italian here is a wonderful website that has podcasts to teach you the basics: <a href=“http://www.learnitalianpod.com%5B/url%5D”>www.learnitalianpod.com</a></p>