David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*) writes:

The next language _you_ try maybe. It's rarely of any use to me when I
travel (outside French speaking countries)- even in Europe. Despite
being an American, you have adopted a very French perspective, but it's
******** if you travel to most countries outside France.

There's nothing specifically French about the perspective, although I'm sure
it pleases the French. I've still had cases in which I've been asked to speak
to executives from non-French-speaking countries in French rather than English
because they knew French far better (having studied it in school).

There are many people who study only French (particularly if their first
language is already English), or both English and French. French has long
been extremely popular as a foreign language.