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To copy someone else's format:
Africa: Arabic, English, French and Portuguese should get you along well, but it wouldn't hurt to learn native languages. Also, if you're going down to southern Africa, you should definitely learn Afrikaans (which you can easily learn due to it being a sister language of Dutch) and/or isiZulu.
Asia: While English and Arabic will get you places, learning Mandarin, Russian, Hindi and Japanese would definitely be beneficial.
Europe: Honestly, you'd be better off learning all the native languages (though many are mutually intelligible, such as many of the Scandinavian languages).
North America: English, French and Spanish are really the only languages spoken on the continent by a majority (excluding creoles that are common in the Caribbean), so if you know any of those three languages, you're set.
Oceania: Let's be frank and admit that you'd likely only go here for Australia, Hawai'i or New Zealand, so English. Heck, most of the smaller islands/countries are either possessions of Australia, New Zealand or the US or were former British possessions, so English would still be your most useful language.
South America: Spanish is of course the most widespread and used language on the continent, but learning Portuguese would definitely be a bonus, given Brazil's size and power.
[Edited on 01.06.2013 7:58 AM PST]