I put a vote in for Norwegian. The grammar is simple and pretty consistent, it can be treated as genderless, and the pronunciation is much more consistent than English. It’s easy to learn and sounds beautiful!
I can also speak Spanish (not fluently, but enough to get by), and I have my own irks about it. One of the big ones being that nouns are pointlessly gendered.
For the non-Germans: The difference is which syllable is stressed.
Jemanden umfahren - to drive around someone
Jemanden umfahren - to run over someone
All right that seals it, you don’t get to be the world language after English dies. Current leader is now Spanish.
Disqualified languages:
Chinese, Japanese, to hard to learn in school
French, too many silent letters
Dutch.
And now German, for syllable shenanigans
I put a vote in for Norwegian. The grammar is simple and pretty consistent, it can be treated as genderless, and the pronunciation is much more consistent than English. It’s easy to learn and sounds beautiful!
I can also speak Spanish (not fluently, but enough to get by), and I have my own irks about it. One of the big ones being that nouns are pointlessly gendered.
Spanish is too gendered
I don’t care what language gets chosen, just let me concatenate words like in german.