Most Spoken Languages
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers, Created on 3/16/2014
The Top Ten
1 Mandarin
And yet, French is the most commonly taught language, aside from English, and French isn't even on this list. The only people I know that speak Mandarin are Chinese themselves. Schools, use this list to your advantage.
2 English
Most widely spoken language in the world.
3 Spanish
4 Hindi
5 Arabic
6 Russian
7 Bengali
8 Portuguese
Portuguese from Portugal is awesome
9 Indonesian
10 German
The Contenders
11 Swahili