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 Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 2:47 pm
English - 3rd (native language)
German - 10th (C1 proficiency)
Spanish - 2nd (maybe B2)
French - 16th (High B1 or low B2)
American Sign Language - not numbered, but I might disagree with the number of speakers they listed. Still, it's fairly low.
I don't know if anyone else has seen them, but there are a few pages out there that've tried to rank languages based not just on the number of speakers but how spread out those speakers are, the economic power of the language, its use in diplomacy and international organizations, the "cultural significance" (admittedly a loaded term), and the likely future of the language (likely to gain or lose influence worldwide in the next 50 or 100 years). Those rankings were pretty interesting, although somewhat limited in terms of what they can include as well as how many languages they rank (because the ranking process is somewhat more complex).
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Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 5:44 am
Fluent:
English - 3rd
Learning:
Japanese - 9th
Cantonese - 22nd
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Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 5:08 pm
Native Language: Turkish (#17) Other Languages: English (#3) Russian (#7) German (#10) French (#15)
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 1:48 pm
English #3
Javanese (Bahasa Jawa) #12 (not full, but more than the average tourist. Still learning razz )
Dutch #46
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Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 9:31 pm
Native:
English 3
Speak/understand well:
Spanish 2
Learning:
Arabic 5 (This is kinda misleading, I'm specifically learning Saudi Arabic, which obviously has fewer speakers)
Attic Greek, not listed.
Future:
Korean 18
Italian 23
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