English is a hub language. I travel outside of the US, I meet the locals, I meet other foreigners also visiting, and chances are we all speak English.<p>Learning a foreign language is a time consuming and expensive endeavor. If you are not blessed to have English as your native language, and you are struggling financially but interested in upping your skill level or marketability, which language do you study? Which language makes the most sense?<p>In many cases, the answer to those questions is English. I also pity students of English. It&#x27;s a horrible, horrible language as a student. I say this being a native English speaker with moderate literacy in Japanese and Chinese.