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French is a fairly widely spoken language (probably much more so than German) so you may find it slightly more useful. [/size][/font]
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Eh, 'scuse me but there are over 90 million German native speakers [size=1]yay so many like me![/size] (apparently only 'standard' too, so they didn't count Switzerland and some other places) in comparison to about 70 million French natives so I must disagree on that.
Though I must say, French is a hell of a lot easier than German so it might still be the better choice if one's not willing to study uber hard for it.