Are there no benefits to learning French these days?

[Philladelphia]

For example, there are tons of financial gains for learning English. But the same doesn't ring true for French these days does it?

[Bill]

French is still widely spoken, is often used in diplomacy, is one of the official languages of the United Nations, is an official language of a number of nations, and has a rich history, and is a beautiful language.

Those all sound like good reasons to me, so parlons français!

[l c]

I guess it depends - are you planning on doing any travel? Even parts of Canada are french speaking.

[Andrul]

Well it truly depends on what area you are into. If you are a biologist, or a psicologist, biochemist, knowing french its of great help.
Besides the obvious....

[Dennis B]

Are you kidding? There's every benefit! If you speak fluent French, and live near a big city? Airports, that have airlines. Inperpreters. Public relations careers. You could go places. (Not a pun.)

[Bananaz]

Thats not true. Learning any language is great, be it French, English, Mandarin or any other language.