Steinke-Institut list

Student   Wed Aug 19, 2009 8:45 am GMT
Steinke-Institut is a language school situated in Bonn, Germany. They provide us an interesting list of the most important languages (GDP economic power) and the number of speakers by 2025. We can see also the demographic tendency from 2005 to 2025:

1. English
2. Chinese
3. Japanese
4. Spanish
5. German
6. French
7. Italian
8. Russian
9. Portuguese
10. Korean

http://www.steinke-institut.de/sprachenundwirtschaft.htm
Brazilian   Wed Aug 19, 2009 8:51 am GMT
7. Portuguese
8. Italian
9. Russian

this is the way it should be.
kaka   Wed Aug 19, 2009 10:47 am GMT
Portuguese is spoken in underdeveloped countries and no one is interested in learning it in Europe. Only sex addicted people who love going to Brazil
Spamnish   Wed Aug 19, 2009 11:49 am GMT
4. Spanish

Spanish is spoken in underdeveloped countries and no one is interested in learning it in Europe.
Guest   Wed Aug 19, 2009 11:54 am GMT
It is very interesting the demographic tendency 2005-2025

Englisch +60
Chinesisch +230
Japanisch -10
Spanisch +110
Deutsch -6
Französisch +10
Italienisch -3
Russisch -10
Portugiesisch +40
Koreanisch +8
Zorro   Wed Aug 19, 2009 12:02 pm GMT
"Spanish is spoken in underdeveloped countries and no one is interested in learning it in Europe."

The Steinke Institut list say exactly the opposite. It is the most useful European language after English, with an increase of 110 million in 20 years. Very good data for Spanish...