guesto Groupie Australia Joined 5747 days ago 76 posts - 118 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Spanish
| Message 25 of 43 10 May 2009 at 12:30am | IP Logged |
JasonBourne wrote:
guesto wrote:
You all seem to be listing the languages most widely spoken by immigrants. But are these the "best" languages for someone to learn? You might have more chances to speak it, but it might be utterly useless for employment for example. |
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They kind of go hand in hand, though. If there is a high immigrant population using a certain language, there will be a need for bilingual speakers who can communicate with them, which translates into more employment opportunities, especially as translators or social services jobs. |
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To an extent, but not necessarily. Where I live there is a massive Indian community, however I have never met one who did not speak English. I never even met one who spoke English below an intermediate level. So Hindi or Punjabi would be fairly useless even for a social worker.
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pfwillard Pro Member United States Joined 5705 days ago 169 posts - 205 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map
| Message 26 of 43 10 May 2009 at 1:27am | IP Logged |
mick33 wrote:
In Washington state, it would probably be
1. English
2. Spanish
3. Korean
4. Japanese
5. Vietnamese or maybe Mandarin
A few months ago I saw an advertisement requesting translators that also knew the following languages: Arabic, Portuguese, Russian and Ukrainian, but I think the first five languages above are far more common. |
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I'm in Washington state and I agree with this list. I also hear a lot of Russian and Polish. It might be good to have a little Tagalog vocabulary as well,
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KakikataEmpits Diglot Newbie Japan Joined 5708 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes Speaks: Japanese*, English
| Message 27 of 43 10 May 2009 at 2:29am | IP Logged |
Here in Japan,
1)English,
2)Mandarin Chinese,
3)Korean,
Edited by KakikataEmpits on 10 May 2009 at 8:21am
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Kyrie Senior Member United States clandestein.deviantaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5735 days ago 207 posts - 231 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Portuguese
| Message 28 of 43 10 May 2009 at 2:59am | IP Logged |
In Texas, USA:
1) English
2) Spanish
3) Vietnamese (Around Houston)
4) German (In areas around Fredericksburg)
5) French (near the Louisiana border)
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Jiwon Triglot Moderator Korea, South Joined 6442 days ago 1417 posts - 1500 votes Speaks: EnglishC2, Korean*, GermanC1 Studies: Hindi, Spanish Personal Language Map
| Message 29 of 43 10 May 2009 at 5:48pm | IP Logged |
In Korea,
1) Korean (By Korean, I mean high-flawn Korean)
2) English
3) Japanese
4) Mandarin
5) Spanish
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Adi Newbie United States Joined 5822 days ago 33 posts - 33 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 30 of 43 10 May 2009 at 6:27pm | IP Logged |
In my particular area of Brooklyn:
1. English
2. Russian
3. Hebrew
4. Yiddish
5. Spanish
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JW Hexaglot Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/egw Joined 6128 days ago 1802 posts - 2011 votes 22 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Ancient Greek, French, Biblical Hebrew Studies: Luxembourgish, Dutch, Greek, Italian
| Message 31 of 43 11 May 2009 at 1:54am | IP Logged |
In Florida:
1. English
2. Spanish
3. Portuguese
No other languages have any importance here.
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WFU03 Groupie Norway Joined 6681 days ago 62 posts - 70 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian, French
| Message 32 of 43 11 May 2009 at 12:56pm | IP Logged |
In Oslo:
1. Norwegian (or Swedish, but Norwegian is preferable)
2. English
3. Polish
4. German
5. Spanish
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