Bias aside theres nothing to choose from between languages really, its not like people who speak one or the other cant communicate as well, its just were very lucky that English has become the defacto world language and unlucky for Chirac that French is becoming less and less used.
If its your first language then you will be able to speak it very fluently as your brain gets hardwired to understand it, any languages learned later are harder because the wiring has already taken place. Not all languages are as easy to learn and some are very difficult like Icelantic.
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Chinese will not ever take over its far far too difficult to learn, English is (apparantly) quite tolerant when mistakes make you do.[/quote]
English is not so much tollerant as flexible, You can say something in many different ways, which also means you may end up saying something you never intended. Many other languages, unlike English, have sexed terms too which is how the famous English and how she is wrote style mistakes happen. Flexibility can also make languages difficult to learn.
The main reason Chinese isnt a good universal language is the number of written characters makes writing problematic.
Observation: The French arent racist, they hate everyone equally.
