Over at Page 3.14, they're marking the launch of the German-language site scienceblogs.de (for real, this time) with a poll about language skills: they want to know what languages other than English ScienceBlogs readers speak, and what you think they should target next.
Current sentiment is running in favor of French or Spanish next, but personally, I'd go for Japanese or Chinese-- we've already got some presence in Europe, but Asia is wide open. I wouldn't be able to read a word of it (not that I get much out of the German site), but it'd be cool to see Seed and ScienceBlogs move into a different character set.
I second the vote for Japanese, but for purely selfish reasons. For increasing the presence of ScienceBlogs, a Chinese-language site would be hard to beat.
I speak Portuguese and would like to suggest that Portuguese is most certainly not the language ScienceBlogs should target next. Although it would help me practice my Portuguese, at least a half dozen other languages make more sense.
A quick look for 'science' searches via trends.google.com suggests
1) English
2) French
3) Chinese
4) Dutch
5) German
6) Portuguese
7) Spanish
demo, nihongo wa suki...
But if you end up doing the site in Chinese, you can't be guaranteed that it will get through the censors and that people in China can even read it!
Do not underestimate the Chinese. They have their ways. There is a reason Google is not the number one search engine in China :)