Why Learn French
Over 275 million people around the world speak French. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, nearly 1-in-5 people, or 47 million U.S. residents age 5 and older, spoke a language other than English at home at the turn of the 21st century.
The report say
Language Use and English-Speaking Ability: 2000, affirmed that 55 percent of the people who spoke a language other than English at home in the U.S. also reported that they spoke English “very well.” After English and Spanish, Chinese was the language most commonly spoken at home (2.0 million speakers), followed by French (1.6 million speakers) and German (1.4 million speakers). Of the 20 non-English languages most frequently spoken at home, the second largest proportional increase was for French Creole speakers (the language group that includes Haitian Creoles), whose numbers more than doubled from 188,000 to 453,000.
Why shouls I learn french?
In a post-colonial world, French maintains a well deserved place of importance, for a number of reasons:
1) It is widely spoken on five continents and in many countries, by approximately 200 million people, as a native tongue, language of instruction, language of government, lingua franca of business.
2) It is among the principal languages of diplomacy and of important international organizations.
3) It is estimated to be among the most important languages of the internet, because of the number of WWW pages up, vigorous efforts to create viable internet discussion lists, success in connecting francophone countries in the southern hemisphere, and its use in page translator applications. To see the amazing detail of this
https://foreignlanguages.camden.rutgers.edu/french/why-french-matters/
https://www.utm.edu/staff/globeg/profren.shtml