Just read in newspaper that the English language will loose its worldwide popularity of being the preferred second language. To a computer which will instantly translate from one foreign language to another.
Don’t know about this. But from personal experience I can confirm definitely that English is preferred second language.
I spend a lot of time in Goa. A state in India. In my village there are half dozen of small bars all full of long stay winter visitors and a very few local goans. There are French, Russians, Spanish, Flemish, Scandinavian Greek, Turks, etc etc, and a few English. They all talk to each other. Russian to Iranian etc. But always they talk to each other in English.