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guesto
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Australia
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Speaks: English*
Studies: Italian, Spanish

 
 Message 25 of 43
10 May 2009 at 12:30am | IP Logged 
JasonBourne wrote:
guesto wrote:
You all seem to be listing the languages most widely spoken by immigrants. But are these the "best" languages for someone to learn? You might have more chances to speak it, but it might be utterly useless for employment for example.


They kind of go hand in hand, though. If there is a high immigrant population using a certain language, there will be a need for bilingual speakers who can communicate with them, which translates into more employment opportunities, especially as translators or social services jobs.


To an extent, but not necessarily. Where I live there is a massive Indian community, however I have never met one who did not speak English. I never even met one who spoke English below an intermediate level. So Hindi or Punjabi would be fairly useless even for a social worker.
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pfwillard
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United States
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 Message 26 of 43
10 May 2009 at 1:27am | IP Logged 
mick33 wrote:
In Washington state, it would probably be

1. English
2. Spanish
3. Korean
4. Japanese
5. Vietnamese or maybe Mandarin

A few months ago I saw an advertisement requesting translators that also knew the following languages: Arabic, Portuguese, Russian and Ukrainian, but I think the first five languages above are far more common.


I'm in Washington state and I agree with this list. I also hear a lot of Russian and Polish. It might be good to have a little Tagalog vocabulary as well,
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KakikataEmpits
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Japan
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 Message 27 of 43
10 May 2009 at 2:29am | IP Logged 
Here in Japan,

1)English,
2)Mandarin Chinese,
3)Korean,

Edited by KakikataEmpits on 10 May 2009 at 8:21am

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Kyrie
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United States
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Studies: Portuguese

 
 Message 28 of 43
10 May 2009 at 2:59am | IP Logged 
In Texas, USA:

1) English
2) Spanish
3) Vietnamese (Around Houston)
4) German (In areas around Fredericksburg)
5) French (near the Louisiana border)
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Jiwon
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Korea, South
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 Message 29 of 43
10 May 2009 at 5:48pm | IP Logged 
In Korea,

1) Korean (By Korean, I mean high-flawn Korean)
2) English
3) Japanese
4) Mandarin
5) Spanish

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Adi
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United States
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 Message 30 of 43
10 May 2009 at 6:27pm | IP Logged 
In my particular area of Brooklyn:

1. English
2. Russian
3. Hebrew
4. Yiddish
5. Spanish



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JW
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Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Ancient Greek, French, Biblical Hebrew
Studies: Luxembourgish, Dutch, Greek, Italian

 
 Message 31 of 43
11 May 2009 at 1:54am | IP Logged 
In Florida:

1. English
2. Spanish
3. Portuguese

No other languages have any importance here.
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WFU03
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Norway
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 Message 32 of 43
11 May 2009 at 12:56pm | IP Logged 
In Oslo:

1. Norwegian (or Swedish, but Norwegian is preferable)
2. English
3. Polish
4. German
5. Spanish



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