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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4709 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes  Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 33 of 39 09 February 2013 at 5:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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If you are doing hi-tech then Israel is a goldmine.
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| lichtrausch Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5962 days ago 525 posts - 1072 votes Speaks: English*, German, Japanese Studies: Korean, Mandarin | Message 34 of 39 09 February 2013 at 5:36pm | IP Logged | ||
If you're an Israelphile, then Hebrew is the right language for you. For everyone else, Arabic is the way to go. Edited by lichtrausch on 09 February 2013 at 5:54pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4670 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 35 of 39 09 February 2013 at 11:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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English, French, Russian
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6599 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 36 of 39 10 February 2013 at 1:24am | IP Logged | ||
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and Portuguese:)
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| Woodstock Newbie United States Joined 4307 days ago 14 posts - 17 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 37 of 39 10 February 2013 at 7:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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I will beg to differ a little bit from the prediction that Mandarin will be the most in demand language. There are a lot of Chinese people who are learning English. I think they will be able to retain their English much better than say, an America will be able to retain their Mandarin. But for the time being at least, I think proficiency in Mandarin would look good on the resume.
Vietnamese...Well, good luck is all I can say. :) I lived with a very good Vietnamese friend on and off for 10 years, and we are still friends today. I learned how to cook a lot of Vietnamese dishes, and I learned a lot about the culture....but with the language I hit a brick wall. I just could never master all the tones. By the way, I bought all kinds of materials too: books, tapes, CDs. I ended up donating it all to the library. My friend and his family got a big kick out of my efforts though. Oh, and you have to be a genius to translate written Viet into the spoken language. My hat is off to anyone who can master it. It's always very dangerous to make predictions about the future, but I'd say: English and Spanish would be the languages that a person would actually put to use over the next 20-30 years. You might also add Brazilian Portuguese. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4653 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English | Message 38 of 39 12 February 2013 at 3:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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What about Japanese? It's not tonal, and if you know the kanji, you can pretty much write in Chinese too (the percentage of common characters is VERY high). I heard Chinese-Japanese meetings often consist of writing, as this way they can communicate without knowing each other's languages.
My list would be: #1 Mandarin #2 Japanese #3 Spanish #4 Arabic 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| darkwhispersdal Senior Member Wales Joined 6042 days ago 294 posts - 363 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Ancient Greek, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, Latin | Message 39 of 39 18 June 2013 at 8:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well going off the companies that the company I work for do business with and where other parts of my company are located then the main ones are:-
English Spanish Portuguese Japanese Russian German French Mandarin The lesser ones are:- Vietnamese Swedish The field is biotechnology and I guess that the nature of the business will dictate the languages you will need to work with. The only other interesting development I've noticed is an increase in demand for renewable technologies in the Middle East so Arabic would be very helpful there and in India, but English seems more useful there for business. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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