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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5852 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes  1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 9 of 11 23 November 2013 at 6:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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In Germany there are different professional educations for mechatronics, for example we have car-mechatronikers, in the past they worked as car - mechanikers. For such a field of business it would make sense to learn German.
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| culebrilla Senior Member United States Joined 4002 days ago 246 posts - 436 votes Speaks: Spanish | Message 11 of 11 18 December 2013 at 2:00am | IP Logged | ||
1. Briefly glancing over your first post and part of your second, I only found one mistake. So your English writing is most likely pretty good. :) 2. I also don't care much about "beauty", culture, or history like you. People like us exist. 3. The most influential languages (yes, this is a tired topic) are hard to measure. But you can measure them somewhat rationally by measuring either the percentage or absolute numbers of people that study that language. Why would anybody study a language? Well, because it is interesting or bestows upon them an economic benefit. I.E, they like it or they make more money doing it. Ergo, they study it. The numbers are hard to find but I saw one Berlitz graph from 2008 showing that the vast majority (65%?) or people learning a foreign language studied English, French was a distant number two (6%?) while Spanish was a close third (5%), German was fourth (3%), then Russian, Chinese, and Italian in some order. 4. Of course, it is all regional. If you're in Europe, French will probably be better to learn than Spanish if you want to stay local. If you're in South America, you Portuguese or Spanish would be great options. 5. Complicating this even more is that people that learn less commonly studied languages have been shown by some metrics to make more money. Forbes published data about the economic benefits of knowing Spanish, French, German, Arabic, or Mandarin and the best salary increases were found with Mandarin, Arabic, or German. French and Spanish weren't that great since too many spoke them→too much supply, little demand. However, the time investment with Mandarin and Arabic will be several times greater than the other languages and the opportunity cost of that for each individual should be considered. 6. Assuming you do have equal motivation for learning any of the major economic languages, I would recommend French or German since they would be a lot faster to learn than Arabic, for example. Plus, you would have to learn MSA and a local dialect, so really more than just one language. But you hopefully will have other skills to work in these other countries. Just knowing languages usually doesn't pay the bills unless you are a translator or interpreter. And you better be damn good at the languages. A company would much rather hire a person that knows two languages VERY well instead of some polyglot that knows 10 languages at an intermediate level. 7. Good luck. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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