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| seemewoo Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4570 days ago 21 posts - 22 votes | Message 1 of 11 12 January 2013 at 12:45am | IP Logged | ||
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hey!
So I am currently learning Spanish and I just wanted to ask as a student studying electrical engineering and wanting to work across Europe, what would be the best languages to know? would it be German? or best off learning Catalan or something? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| sillygoose1 Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 4638 days ago 566 posts - 814 votes  Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: German, Latin | Message 2 of 11 12 January 2013 at 4:23am | IP Logged | ||
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For engineering, I'd say French, German, & Russian.
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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5011 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 3 of 11 12 January 2013 at 12:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well, I would say German, French or the Scandinavian languages (Cristina was saying on
the forum that the north is looking for engineers). Russian only if you want to live in Russia, but in the states of the EU it's quite useless. (Well with the exception of Estonia, Latvia and Lithunia perhaps) Another interesing choice would be a language like Czech or Polish. The salaries are in general lower than in Germany or so, but there is demand for engineers and they can earn good money too. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Gosiak Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5128 days ago 241 posts - 361 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, German Studies: Norwegian, Welsh | Message 4 of 11 12 January 2013 at 12:41pm | IP Logged | ||
This will not be a decent sum by European standards. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4875 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 5 of 11 12 January 2013 at 12:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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I can confirm that there is a great demand for engineers here in Norway, and I've heard
about some having a 600,000 kroner annual salary (well, before the State put their drinking straw into your wallet) after less than ten years of experience. Don't know if they pay foreign engineers that much though... I'm definitely returning to Norway after I get my engineering degree unless the demand ceases to be. Edited by stifa on 12 January 2013 at 12:42pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| seemewoo Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4570 days ago 21 posts - 22 votes | Message 6 of 11 12 January 2013 at 1:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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What about the languages for everything within Europe that's to the left of Germany, i don't really want to work in the Scandinavian countries, nor the eastern European countries. however i would also go work within South America so what languages are used predominantly there? is it just Spanish and Portuguese?
So what are the best languages to learn for these places? as i will graduate within either 4 years from september of this year or 6-7 years depending on whether i do a masters/doctorate after my initial degree. so letes say i can either have 4 languages (one per year) or 6 languages (one per year) which ones would be most important? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5132 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 7 of 11 12 January 2013 at 2:00pm | IP Logged | ||
Whichever language(s) you plan on studying, I'd suggest just one or two. If you're jumping to another language every year, none of them will be at a high enough level to use in a work environment. R. == 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| seemewoo Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4570 days ago 21 posts - 22 votes | Message 8 of 11 12 January 2013 at 2:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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hmm i suppose, didnt benny learn German to very close to C2 level within three months? so why cant i learn a language to C2 level within a year, 4 times a what he had?
Would it a good idea to learn say Spanish then french then German first? are these the most widely spoken across Europe? then would it be sensible to learn Italian and Portuguese? or instead learn catalan? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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