English is becoming the world's language of the 21st Century and this is no time to 1.   U.S. residents or immigrants 2.   learning English. English is now the second most widely spoken language in the world, with only Chinese 3.   spoken by more people. English is 4.  ,the second language of 5.  , for non-English-speaking people. English is the official language of the European Central Bank and the working language of the Asian trade group ASEAN.
   In multilingual continental Europe, a 6.   battle over language popularity appears to be ending with English emerging as the 7.   for the 21st century. The Germans have given up trying to persuade more British people to learn their language and, instead, 8.  Germany's leading newspaper produces an eight-page English edition and declares that "9.  ."
   Switzerland has three official languages, German, French, and Italian, plus a fourth language spoken in one canton, Romansh. But Switzerland recently 10.   rather than one of its official language.