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Does Spanish depend on Mexico’s rise? | ||
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| nway Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/Vic Joined 5416 days ago 574 posts - 1707 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean | Message 33 of 55 24 July 2011 at 8:14pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
California, New Mexico, and Florida are not "pure Hispanic". They are 37.6%, 46.3%, and 22.5% Hispanic, respectively.
Japanese has a bigger GDP than any of those three languages, but I don't think anyone would call Japanese a vital business language.
Well Mandarin is already spoken by nearly 20% of the world, and Hindustani follows in second place at 15%. Clearly there's more to the economic utility of a language than just its number of speakers. Edited by nway on 24 July 2011 at 8:16pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| aquablue Senior Member United States Joined 6383 days ago 150 posts - 172 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 34 of 55 24 July 2011 at 8:30pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I would say Japanese is a pretty important business language given the stature of Japan.
For business with Japan, the 3rd largest economy in the world it is vital. German would still be the better choice for European from a utility or business standpoint I think, given the situation in Spain. Edited by aquablue on 24 July 2011 at 8:33pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| nway Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/Vic Joined 5416 days ago 574 posts - 1707 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean | Message 35 of 55 24 July 2011 at 8:44pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Well, obviously Japanese is useful for business with Japan... 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| aquablue Senior Member United States Joined 6383 days ago 150 posts - 172 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 36 of 55 24 July 2011 at 8:48pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I think japanese is underrated just because it is spoken in 1 country. That country has
a more prosperous economy than all the hispanic countries put together. Edited by aquablue on 24 July 2011 at 8:49pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| nway Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/Vic Joined 5416 days ago 574 posts - 1707 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean | Message 37 of 55 24 July 2011 at 8:55pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Well "prosperous" is a vague term. It has a larger economy, and it certainly has higher per capita wealth. But its growth rate is anemic compared to most Hispanic countries.
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| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5131 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 39 of 55 24 July 2011 at 9:07pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Given your rather lop-sided opinion (and not really correct - Spaniards are learning English far more than they are learning German these days), maybe you should just bite the bullet and learn German. It seems to be what you want to do. Why look for validation for what you want to do? Just do it. R. == 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| aquablue Senior Member United States Joined 6383 days ago 150 posts - 172 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 40 of 55 24 July 2011 at 9:55pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I wonder how much Mexico's crime wave has deterred Americans from studying Spanish
there. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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