Most Important Language

Most Important Second Language for English Speakers

  • French

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • German

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Italian

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Spanish

    Votes: 2 28.6%
  • Mandarin

    Votes: 2 28.6%
  • Cantonese

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Japanese

    Votes: 1 14.3%
  • Korean

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Arabic

    Votes: 1 14.3%
  • Russian

    Votes: 1 14.3%

  • Total voters
    7
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Depends what you want and the criteria you consider important.

The least important on that list is German, for the simple reason that any German worth talking to will speak decent to excellent English. French is good if you want to go there as a lot of them pretend not to be able to speak a word of English and their defences immediately drop as soon as you start jabbering away in Frog. Italian sounds beautiful but is deceptively difficult. Spanish is easier, uglier and spoken by a lot more people so is probably useful if you want to be an international cocaine dealer or be able to speak to your gardener. The Chink languages are probably more useful than most on the list from a business perspective. Japanese and Korean are apparently some of the most difficult languages in the world to learn, up there with Hungarian and Finnish. Arabic is hard too and probably unnecessary unless you want to be a spook. Russian maybe the same now.
 
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guest

Guest
Depends what you want and the criteria you consider important.

The least important on that list is German, for the simple reason that any German worth talking to will speak decent to excellent English. French is good if you want to go there as a lot of them pretend not to be able to speak a word of English and their defences immediately drop as soon as you start jabbering away in Frog. Italian sounds beautiful but is deceptively difficult. Spanish is easier, uglier and spoken by a lot more people so is probably useful if you want to be an international cocaine dealer or be able to speak to your gardener. The Chink languages are probably more useful than most on the list from a business perspective. Japanese and Korean are apparently some of the most difficult languages in the world to learn, up there with Hungarian and Finnish. Arabic is hard too and probably unnecessary unless you want to be a spook. Russian maybe the same now.
This pretty much covers it
 
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