As an English speaker in the USA, here are the secondary languages you should learn (ranked): 1. Math 2. Code 3. Chinese 4. French 5. Russian 6. Spanish There are just too many Spanish speakers to make it useful, though I agree it's much easier than Chinese.
For economic reasons, it was once fashionable to learn Russian, then Japanese. Today, the equivalent language is Chinese. The world is converging to English, but I can see Chinese being much more useful than Japanese or Russian ever was.
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How would you evaluate that? I think you’re right, I just struggle with the complexity of how many Mandarin speakers also speak English and whether that should be factored in. How many speak Mandarin as a secondary language, etc.
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How to evaluate the value of a language? Something like: # of speakers + their aggregate income - # of speakers who speak English, then predict growth of each variable. By and large, Chinese people can't speak English, including the younger generation. Many can read sort of.
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