"In the category of megalanguages, with one hundred million or more (100,000,000) speakers each, are four further languages or pairs of languages: Japanese and Malay+Indonesian in Asia and the Pacific, German in Europe, and French throughout the world. French is notable for several reasons. It is the only language apart from English with important representation in all the continents of the world. It is the official language of more nation-states than any other language, apart from English, and has unique prestige as the world's second "global" language, in spite of its relatively modest number of primary or "native" speakers (around 60,000,000, concentrated largely in western Europe and Quebec
I would also suggest a review of your English dictionary to obtain a grasp of the number of French idioms that are a part of universal vernacular, especially our own.