This is the information era the 21st century where I can communicate whenever I want with people all the way on the other side of the planet instantaneous. The globalization of commerce, industry, politics, and many more aspects of everyday life will only increase. With all that said what will the future of languages become? English is not seen as the future dominant language anymore and actual current predictions state that there will be more multi-lingual people in the near future. I can talk to someone in France online but I don't speak French someone that can speak French would have an advantage in that aspect. That is looking at it simplistically but in the corporate world one can believe business would prefer a person that can speak two languages as opposed to someone who can only speak their native language. Commerce especially with the advent of the internet are targeting wider consumers than ever before. With all this mingling of different languages one can assume that the world will favor multilingual humans at least in the near future. That or we could all learn chinese I mean that is the predominant language right now...