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Posted: 8/4/2005 4:45:06 PM EDT
[#1]
American?
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Posted: 8/4/2005 4:45:43 PM EDT
[#2]
American, followed by French and then Spanish.
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Posted: 8/4/2005 4:48:00 PM EDT
[#3]
Spanish / German
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Posted: 8/4/2005 4:48:04 PM EDT
[#4]
French & Mandarin
French because they had many former colonies in Asia, Africa, & South America. Mandarin just beacuse it is the most dominant language. Many in Latin America are choosing to learn Chinese over English as a second language. |
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Posted: 8/4/2005 4:48:41 PM EDT
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I am fluent in Spanish. Living in South Florida and having traveled to Panama, Peru and Mexico my spanish has come in very handy.
When I go visit family in Miami, Spanish is the only thing to save you. Spanish. HS1 |
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Posted: 8/4/2005 4:49:13 PM EDT
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Arabic will be usefull throughout North Africa, the Middle East and down into the Far East (lots of muslims in SE Asia).
However. realistically English will get you by in most of the world, something like 1 in 4 people speak it to some degree. I got by in the Navy for 8 years with just English. Don't bother with French, contrary to popular belief it's not spoken widely. Other than France all the other countries that speak it are 4th world hellholes, mostly in Africa  ANdy |
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Posted: 8/4/2005 4:49:28 PM EDT
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It's very easy to get around in almost any Spanish-speaking country. |
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Posted: 8/4/2005 4:49:50 PM EDT
[#8]
Spanish and French.
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Posted: 8/4/2005 4:49:52 PM EDT
[#9]
Spanish and Manderine/Cantonese (1 in 7 of the world's pop)
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Posted: 8/4/2005 4:50:06 PM EDT
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I once travelled the Mediterranean with a Puerto Rican who was also an Arabic linguist. We were able to get around in Spain (Spanish), Italy (many words similar to Spanish), and Egypt (Arabic). The only place he couldn't help us was Israel. The Hebrew threw him for a loop. As far as myself, I was fluent in everything except Greek. Then again, it was all Greek to me.
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Posted: 8/4/2005 4:50:18 PM EDT
[#11]
Mandarin Chinese and Spanish.
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Posted: 8/4/2005 4:50:22 PM EDT
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I took several years of German in high school and college, but every German I've ever met spoke English better than I do. Spanish would have been infinitely more usefull.
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Posted: 8/4/2005 4:50:56 PM EDT
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I would think English, Spanish, Chinese and Russian would be great. Is French still used in diplomatic circles? Jim |
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Posted: 8/4/2005 4:51:12 PM EDT
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The three most common lanuages in the BUSINESS world are, in order: English, German, Japanese. For every day travel I would go with Spanish, which can help a little in Italy, and German.
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Posted: 8/4/2005 4:51:38 PM EDT
[#15]
c++ and c#
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Posted: 8/4/2005 5:09:19 PM EDT
[#16]
the reserved words are in english |
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Posted: 8/4/2005 5:14:48 PM EDT
[#17]
Agreed. OTOH, if you ever find yourself in Southernmost Louisiana, all bets are off.
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Posted: 8/4/2005 5:17:10 PM EDT
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English
Spanish Russian Arabic Manderin/cantonese I think that covers the largest amount of area with the minimum # of languages |
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Posted: 8/4/2005 5:18:59 PM EDT
[#19]
Canadian & Southern.
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Posted: 8/4/2005 5:36:51 PM EDT
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Your going to find the most use out of a language where the native speakers don't already speak English. For instance, I'm fluent in Swedish, (Read, Write, Speak). English is a required class in Swedish schools from the 3rd Grade until graduation of High School. Most Swedes speak better English than I do. German is about the same thing. If your visiting a country where education and the economy is good, English will get you by just fine.
Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Arabic, and Rusian are going to be the most commonly spoken languages where the person your going to meet might not speak English. Which ones you choose to learn would depend on where your likely to travel. I will say that Spanish will be more useful when your in the States than any other "second" language. I'm currently working on learning Spanish, and I don't really plan on global travel any time soon. |
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Posted: 8/4/2005 5:39:26 PM EDT
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Brittish
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Posted: 8/4/2005 5:43:14 PM EDT
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mexican
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Posted: 8/4/2005 5:43:49 PM EDT
[#23]
English, Spanish, and Money...
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Posted: 8/4/2005 5:45:29 PM EDT
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I know you could make a barrel full of cash if you could speak arabic right now.
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Posted: 8/4/2005 5:45:49 PM EDT
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Honest answer: depends where you're going.
The asshole part of me wants to say Modern Standard Arabic and Mandarin, along with English. Spanish...I speak spanish. It's great! It's like being able to ride a bike. But....if you head outside of the hemisphere, it's not so much help. |
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Posted: 8/4/2005 5:54:03 PM EDT
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English >.<
I've been all around this great big world and English is nearly spoken everywhere. I had to work hard to find places that it wasn't. In most countries they study English as a second language like we waste our times with French. In Japan anyone under the age of 40 speaks a bit. In Thailand they teach the kids in fifth and sixth grades. I did need a translator in China though. Most of the college kids would speak a bit but nobody much over the age of 25 or so would admit to speaking English. Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, The Philippines, Korea, Macau, United Arab Emeriates, Greece, Turkey .... all speekie Engrish charrie. |
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Posted: 8/4/2005 5:55:13 PM EDT
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After English?
Spanish and Farsi/Arabic. Japanese, French, Italians, Germans.... a lot of them speak english fairly well. Mandarin might be good to learn too, but a lot of Chinese people speak English too. |
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