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It just "happened" when I was in school if you wanted to go into the sciences they said to learn German, now they suggest Chinese but not really seriously because everyone settled on English because of the Brits doing their colonization thing followed by the US becoming dominant in business, trade and military bases. Before German it was French, before that - Latin. The first time I was in Austria and China almost no one spoke English -- the next time 10 - 15 years later - damn near everyone did.
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Problem of that is also people from english speaking countries don't bother to seriously learn any other language. There is still good research written in my language, french, same for german, spanish, probably chinese too... If it's not translate in english, it's totally ignore by americans.
For example, i had a teacher that was doing research on a major industrial accident that happened in France in 2001. He was at a congress with other people from around the world working on this kind of accident. Almost nobody heard about it as most of the news and studies were published in french.