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BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2011-07-09 03:35
Quote from Misaka;505415:
All this talk about learning Chinese reminds me of the times when people said you should be learning Spanish if you want to make it big in America.
Spanish?
not really
there's a lot of Hispanics and Latinos in the United States
(they make up a large portion of the minorities)
but on the global scale
China's a much better partner than Spanish speaking countries.
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Yoorah wrote on 2011-07-09 04:27
Spanish helps you locally. It also helps you when dealing with South America and such, much like how Chinese helps you deal with China.
Which language is more useful to you depends on what you want to do. If you're not involved in international business or any kind, then you don't really need Chinese at all, and Spanish is only useful for hiring illegals.
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Cucurbita wrote on 2011-07-09 04:40
Spanish can still help in a global level. Considered the raw number of people who speak it, the top 4 languages you could consider for helping out in life and a job would be English, Spanish, Chinese, and Arabic.
Those Swedes are almost always 20 years ahead of everyone else in taking the next step. Ridiculous. I wish America could stop being so proud of itself and actually get its ass to work.
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Aliyah wrote on 2011-07-09 04:47
Quote from Yoorah;505593:
Spanish helps you locally. It also helps you when dealing with South America and such, much like how Chinese helps you deal with China.
Which language is more useful to you depends on what you want to do. If you're not involved in international business or any kind, then you don't really need Chinese at all, and Spanish is only useful for hiring illegals.
Very true. Spanish is great if you work in an industry or in an area with a large hispanic population. Certain hospitals for example put a premium on spanish speaking staff.
Too bad french isn't that useful e_e;
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Cynic wrote on 2011-07-09 08:07
Yeah.. no.
/sees no valid reason to learn Chinese
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Cucurbita wrote on 2011-07-09 09:42
Quote from Cynic;505745:
Yeah.. no.
/sees no valid reason to learn Chinese
I wouldn't do it either, but the reasons are all very valid.
One of the most spoken languages in the world? One of the most likely to survive language in the world?
Eventually we'll all end up speaking one of like 3 or 4 "international languages", and Chinese will definitely survive the elimination process and make it there.
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TinyMo wrote on 2011-07-09 12:25
Do you guys think it would instead be a new language that everyone speaks? Some kind of hybrid of several languages?
I know where I work I get a couple calls a month from customers asking if I speak Spanish. I find more often that Asian customers are less likely to ask and more likely to try to speak in English even if it's very broken. I guess it's because we're less likely to know the Asian languages.
Neither helps me make the sale really. I'd need to learn Spanish and 3 Asian languages to get it right. I could see people learning several languages and then once that happens people would start to mesh them together. Probably not in America though. It'll probably be the Swedes.
Also, I though German was the language of science. When did that stop? I remember when I was in school the teachers would all tell you if you wanted to go into science to learn German and to learn Spanish in business.
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TA wrote on 2011-07-13 20:29
I'd actually like to learn both Mandarin Chinese (it's a beautiful language) and Japanese (for anime purposes).