What is the most common Asian language?
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Mandarin Chinese by far.  It is the official language in China, Taiwan, Singapore.  And it is spoken many oversea Chinese around the world.
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JAPANESE.      \n\nThe textbook 'Japanese for busy people' is a good start.  Also people usually starting by learning Hiragana script, I found it more useful to start with katakana as it is used mainly for 'borrowed words'.  It makes reading a menu easy.
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As far as sheer numbers, Mandarin by a long shot. The number in parenthesis are the total number of speakers (native and secondary).\n\n   1. Mandarin Chinese (1.12 billion)\n   2. English (480 million)\n   3. Spanish (320 million)\n   4. Russian (285 million)\n   5. French (265 million)\n   6. Hindi/Urdu (250 million)\n   7. Arabic (221 million)\n   8. Portuguese (188 million)\n   9. Bengali (185 million)\n  10. Japanese (133 million)\n  11. German (109 million)
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Asian people are everywhere.
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Asia Only          364,270,713  \nRest of the World  653,786,676\nWORLD TOTAL        1,018,057,389\n\nhttp://www.internetworldstats.com/stats3.htm
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I was told that the best language to learn right now is Chinese because China is become more and more important. My good friend is currently studying Chinese and I want to keep in touch with him when he graduates so he can help me if I need help!\n\nI'd like to learn Chinese one day, but I'm working on Korean right now :)
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I find that the Chinese can be the most reflective nationality...The Japanese are the most careful when it comes to preservation and balance...The Koreans have the best language in the world, bar none...The Vietnamese have a pride and self-respect that is unmatched...The Filipinos have a strength that most others in their position would scarcely uphold... Hard to choose. Nice question. :)
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english .\n\neven its not my tongue language .
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That isn't quite so easy as it sounds.  There are several such family trees, as the various Chinese dialects form one, certain Native American languages another, and so on.  The one most people are familiar with is Indo-European, which includes English, the Germanic languages, the Slavic languages, Sanskrit (and thus most languages of India), Greek and the Romance languages (that is, Latin and its descendants).  Another such tree is Finno-Ugric, which includes Finnish and Hungarian (Magyar).
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Thats a good point. I always considered India to be a part of Asia, but people do seem to just be refering to Chinese, Japanese, Korean....when they refer to Asian. They don't seem to be refering to India and Pakistan. I'm sure I was taught at school that India is part of Asia.
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english, tagalog and one dialect (visaya) :)
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I am assuming you are talking about spoken languages and not programming languages.  In that case, Mandarin Chinese is the hardest to learn but the most beneficial.
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There would probably be three official languages: English, Spanish, and Chinese.  I believe they are the most-spoken languages on the planet.  I could be wrong, though.
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Mandarin and English . approximately 16% of the world population.
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All people who are from Asia are calld Asian.People from India are also considered Asians.
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Its not as hard as other Asian languages.  Korean uses an alphabet with 24 characters, so its not hard to learn by westerners. Unlike Chinese which has thousands of characters and can take a loooong time to learn them.\n\nIf you try hard, you can learn enough in one year to get by.  Not totally fluent, but you could go to Korea and get by on what you know, converse with Koreans and be understood.
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you mean East Asian languages ? I've studied Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages. I would say, Chinese is the most difficult to learn whereas Korean would be the easiest among those three.\n\nkorean language is the easiest cuz it uses the Hangul script which is easy to learn and write compared with the Chinese characters, though Chinese characters are used sparingly in the Korean newspapers. Furthermore, Korean language is very similar to Japanese language grammatically.\n\nPersonally, I find it so easy to learn Korean because I had studied Japanese for a few years prior to learning Korean. \nSo I would advise those who have studied Japanese language before, to learn Korean as well. Trust me, it's really a breeze.