More works are translated into French than any other language (even English); so, it would be useful to, at least, learn to read French.
As far as geographic distribution of speakers is concerned, Spanish, Russian and Arabic are English's main rivals.
None of these are that particularly "easy" (familiar in stucture and vocabulary) for Chinese speakers, but Spanish has a reputation for being one of the easiest of the languages to learn as a second language among English speakers, even though it is, by far, not as closely related to English as at least a dozen other European languages.