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According to Wikipedia, Spanish is second for number if native speakers worldwide (although I wonder if they have under-counted Hindi). That would make it a good choice. Plus, it is California's unofficial second language (unless you count Valley as a language).
Of course, the appeal of German is reading Goethe or Nietzsche, or some other hefty tome, in the original and really impressing strangers at cafes. And curious words like bildungsroman, schadenfreude, and weltschmerz.
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Also, German is Nazi talk!
French is frog talk!
Italian is South Philly talk!
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Of course, the appeal of German is reading Goethe or Nietzsche, or some other hefty tome, in the original and really impressing strangers at cafes. And curious words like bildungsroman, schadenfreude, and weltschmerz.
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