French is the sixth most widely spoken language in the world after English, Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Spanish and Arabic. La Francophonie is a group of 84 countries which share official use or teaching of French, of which 32 have French as an official language such as France, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, etc. There are many reasons. read more
Learning it as a foreign language can open up the abilities of a language student who is eager to learn multiple languages. French does enlarge/stretch your learning abilities. (That is my view!) It is advisable that people in the diplomatic corps of any country should take up Spanish or French after English as a second language to learn because they are international languages. read more