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It makes sense to learn languages associated with the country you intend to practise in. If you're working in Paris, you NEED to learn French and so on.
(seriously though, trolling aside, we hear French is a little bit useful due to the ICC being in Paris and it being used in some parts of Africa. End of day though, any foreign language will be valuable in some way - pick one you like and that's spoken in a country you'd like to spend some time in some day, and go for it, a language learned is never a waste of time).