Learn a Foreign Language the Easy and Excting Way Samples : Major Languages

MOST INFLUENTIAL: :
After weighing six factors (number of primary speakers, number of secondary speakers, number and population of countries where used, number of major fields using the language internationally, economic power of countries using the languages, and socio-literary prestige), Weber compiled the following list of the world's ten most influential languages:
(number of points given in parentheses)

1. English (37) 
2. French (23)
3. Spanish (20)
4. Russian (16)
5. Arabic (14)
6. Chinese (13)
7. German (12)
8. Japanese (10)
9. Portuguese (10)
10. Hindi/Urdu (9)

ENGLISH

Hi! Hello!    
How are you? 
~ (I'm) pretty good.       ~  (I'm) good.   ~    (I'm) fine.
How's it going?
           


FRENCH


Salut!  Bonjour! Coucou! Tiens!




SPANISH
¡Hola!






RUSSIAN 
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvujte) - frm, Привет (Privet) - inf

ARABIC 

*Modern Standard Arabic

(as-salām 'alaykum) السلام عليكم
rsp - (wa 'alaykum as-salām) و عليكم السلام
inf - (marḥaban) مرحبا

*Egyptian Arabic
(is salām 'alaykum) ألسّلام عليكم
rsp - (wa 'alaykum is salām) وعليكم السّلام
(ahlan wa sahlan) أهلاً و سهلاً
rsp - (ahlan beek) أهلاً بيك
inf - (ahlan) أهلاً


see it in action

CHINESE 

 *Mandarin
 你好 (nǐ hǎo), 您好 (nín hǎo) - frm

*Cantonese
 你好 (néih hóu)

* Fookien/Hakka
 爾好 (ngi² ho)


GERMAN 
Hallo / Guten Tag

JAPANESE 
今日は (konnichiwa)
おっす (ossu) - used between close male friends
PORTUGUESE 
Olá / Estou? (Portugal)
Oi! E aí? Tudo bem? Tudo certo? Opa! (Brazil)

HINDI/URDU 
नमस्ते (namaste) नमस्कार (namaskār)

RANKED ACCDG TO TOTAL NUMBER OF SPEAKERS

Total number of native and secondary speakers of top languages.

1. Mandarin Chinese (1.12 B) 2. English (480M) 3. Spanish (320 M) 4. Russian (285M) 5. French (270M) 6. Hindi /Urdu (250M) 7. Arabic (221M) 8. Portuguese (188M) 9. Bengali (185M) 10. Persian (169M) 11. Japanese (133 M) 12. Punjabi (130M) 13. German (100M)

INFLUENTIAL LANGUAGES:  http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/reprints/weber/rep-weber.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_widely_spoken_languages_%28by_number_of_countries%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers
http://www2.ignatius.edu/faculty/turner/languages.htm