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| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4670 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes  Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 25 of 39 28 June 2012 at 5:58pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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We may put French in the Spanish/Portuguese category. At least in my field (psychology and psychotherapy) all literature is in English and in German. In Europe, French is predominant only in France, in Belgium, Dutch is more important these days, so is German in Switzerland.
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| Duke100782 Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Philippines https://talktagalog.Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4490 days ago 172 posts - 240 votes Speaks: English*, Tagalog* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 26 of 39 02 September 2012 at 4:36am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Being based in China, I would say that doing business in China if you can't speak Chinese is only possible if you have a full time interpreter. Studying Mandarin is certainly a language one should consider, especially if you consider how few Chinese can speak carry a conversation in English, or any other foreign language for that matter. This would be a contrast to Hindi, the language of the other rapidly developing country with a population over one billion, wherein almost all educated Indians would be able to speaking English fluently. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6441 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 27 of 39 02 September 2012 at 4:44pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I know people who do business in China without speaking any Chinese. There are some Chinese people that speak English. What matters is the language(s) of the people you're doing business with; the language demographics of a region as a whole are interesting, but surprisingly irrelevant at times. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Duke100782 Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Philippines https://talktagalog.Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4490 days ago 172 posts - 240 votes Speaks: English*, Tagalog* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 28 of 39 03 September 2012 at 6:38am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Yes, I agree with you absolutely. I was just making a generalization, of course. Also, I meant to underscore
the stark difference between India and China in terms of the mobility of expatriate businessmen because of language. Edited by Duke100782 on 03 September 2012 at 6:44am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| JJ-JUNIOR Triglot Newbie Brazil nideck.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5629 days ago 13 posts - 14 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishC1, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: French, German | Message 29 of 39 03 December 2012 at 3:21am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I tend to agree very much with the article on the andaman.org.
I know that a lot of people say that Mandarin is the language of the future. Why? How come? I don't know a single person that speaks mandarin professionally as a second language. It won't happen. What language are we using now to communicate? English. There are people from all over the world in this forum. I don't think it's very hard to acknowledge that English IS the language of the present and the future. There are various reasons for this, but, yes, one of the main reason IS cultural domain, the whole world watched Hollywood movies, every one has a grasp of the American way of life. For me, the most important languages are: 1.English 2.Spanish 3.French 4.German 5.Italian Now, the whole thing depends on what use will you make of the languages you know. If you speak Arabic,go to Saudi Arabia and manages to make a lot of money it's all on you and, in this particular case, speaking Arabic helped you a lot. You see, it's very personal and it really depends on where you live, what are your aspirations, etc. Here in Brazil the most important language is English and then Spanish... just as I mentioned on the list above. Speaking German or even French here is almost useless if you don't work for a big corporation that values that particular language. Edited by JJ-JUNIOR on 03 December 2012 at 3:22am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| aodhanc Diglot Groupie Iceland Joined 6262 days ago 92 posts - 130 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish | Message 30 of 39 03 December 2012 at 9:49pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Italian at number 5 language in the world??
I don't think so, it's just one medium-sized country. 3 persons have 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 31 of 39 03 December 2012 at 10:03pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Did you read the part where he wrote: "For me, the most important languages are:" He also went on to write that Arabic might be more important to someone working in Saudi Arabia. And that's the point of the entire thread. What's important for one person isn't necessarily for another. It's just another in a long list of questions that can't objectively be answered. R. == Edited by hrhenry on 03 December 2012 at 10:03pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| BenMilim Triglot Newbie Germany benmilim.blogspot.co Joined 4706 days ago 25 posts - 30 votes Speaks: Hungarian*, EnglishC1, GermanC2 Studies: Spanish, Russian, Modern Hebrew, French | Message 32 of 39 09 February 2013 at 1:58pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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What do you all think about Hebrew? I'm fully aware that it's only spoken in one country and that Israel isn't
necessarily the best place right now for future businesses... but there's no doubt how the Middle East is still in some turmoil and thus a lot of attention is given to Israel and its surrounding countries. Perhaps that's enough of a reason to learn Hebrew? Arabic is certainly beneficial as well, probably more important than Hebrew in fact, but I believe there's not much you can achieve with Arabic in Israel. Or am I just imagining all this because I'm studying Hebrew? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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