Hi everyone!

I have been traveling a lot recently and therefore met many interesting people from all around the world.

I am very ( and pleasantly) surprised by the quantity of them who are learning or learned french at school or later in life. I was amazed to learn that Armenians, Russians, Thais ...... had the opportunity to study French at school.

I would like to understand the reason why so many people choose to study French rather than Spanish or Mandarin which have way more native speakers.

I would like to hear your reasons to study french and/or your opinion on that topic.

By the way, I am absolutely not complaining about this, otherwise I wouldn't have start teaching French on Italki ;-)

Thanks for reading.