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| Trebin Newbie United States Joined 4924 days ago 9 posts - 9 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin | Message 9 of 26 02 June 2011 at 9:22pm | IP Logged |
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Hmm some valid points are made here as well. I wonder if Russian would be good to consider over Arabic or Chinese. I will have to do some more research on this. I know someone that speaks Mandarin so I at least have a resource with that.
How difficult is Russian over Mandarin? I could probably pass myself off as Russian but definitely not chinese. I am a 6'5" white guy lol Edited by Trebin on 02 June 2011 at 9:25pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Trebin Newbie United States Joined 4924 days ago 9 posts - 9 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin | Message 10 of 26 02 June 2011 at 9:48pm | IP Logged |
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I am just having a hard time deciding as I want to make sure if I put the time in it will pay off. Mandarin looks pretty tough but the others appear to be as well. I know that China certainly has its fair share of hackers and what not. I do not plan on visiting the countries honestly unless I need to for a job down the road. So based on the conversation here I am still stuck.
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| carlonove Senior Member United States Joined 5986 days ago 145 posts - 253 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Italian | Message 11 of 26 02 June 2011 at 10:15pm | IP Logged |
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Check if DoD will help subsidize your language learning as professional development, and choose whichever language they recommend or will better fund.
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| lichtrausch Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5960 days ago 525 posts - 1072 votes Speaks: English*, German, Japanese Studies: Korean, Mandarin | Message 12 of 26 02 June 2011 at 10:56pm | IP Logged |
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Personally I think doing intelligence work on China would be more interesting because it is seemingly the only force in the world with the potential to challenge U.S. hegemony over the coming decades. In the face of the challenge China presents to the U.S., the Arab world and Russia are just distractions. Important distractions, but still distractions.
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| Trebin Newbie United States Joined 4924 days ago 9 posts - 9 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin | Message 13 of 26 03 June 2011 at 12:08am | IP Logged |
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DoD wont pay for it as I work for an internal agency and it is not needed. This is more for me to open up a brighter future and more job possibilities down the road. Lichtrausch, I like your response and think that it is a very good point.
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| languageguy13 Diglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4930 days ago 9 posts - 13 votes Speaks: Spanish, French Studies: Mandarin, Portuguese | Message 14 of 26 03 June 2011 at 1:21am | IP Logged |
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I'd say whilst it's probably the most challenging, Mandarin would be the best for this in my opinion as like Lichtrausch said, over the coming years the Chinese economy is set to overtake that of the US, which would probably open up the most job possibilities
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| Raincrowlee Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 6702 days ago 621 posts - 808 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Korean, French Studies: Indonesian, Japanese | Message 15 of 26 03 June 2011 at 1:41am | IP Logged |
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I've looked into the DOD as an employer, and it seems like Mandarin or Russian would be a much better bet if you're interested in hacking or other IT security related fields. As someone pointed out, those are the areas where hacker attacks have been coming from, especially the more sophisticated ones. While there is an active Arabic internet world, for security it would be better to focus on Russian or Mandarin.
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| Trebin Newbie United States Joined 4924 days ago 9 posts - 9 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin | Message 16 of 26 03 June 2011 at 1:50am | IP Logged |
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Yeah, I think Mandarin may be better than Russian. Maybe down the road I would consider RUssian.
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