Which would be the most helpful language to know?!?

Question

Ok, I already know Spanish, English, and a bit of French and Czech. I have a chance, in college, to take some intensive language courses, which require you to be basically fluent and pass a huge exam and everything. Ok, so they languages they offer are Spanish (already know it), French (don't really want to take this that much), Russian, Latin, German, and Japanese. Now, I am confused on which language i want to take. I kind of want to take German, but I have hated how German sounds my entire life, but recently i have grown to like it. I don't know. Russian would be cool too but I don't know if that would be very useful! What do I do? Thanks!

Answer 1

Take Japanese. It can be difficult but I think it's totally worth it. It's kind of cool to know somebody that speak japanese without being from Japan.

Answer 2

Japanese would probably be the most useful out of those choices if you already know Spanish and French.

You are more likely to encounter Japanese people on a daily basis than Germans or Russians. And people still talking Latin? Not going to happen.

Answer 3

Go with Russian. There are lots of people who speak Japanese, and it will take you a long time to be able to actually use it. Four or five yours of study will make you passably competent. Companies don't hire someone whose Japanese skills are limited to, "Where's the bathroom?" they want people who are fluent. And Japanese multinational companies have many Japanese and non-Japanese who can speak both English and Japanese. The same, of course, is true with Russian, but A) there are far fewer people who can speak Russian and B) financial opportunities in Russia and former Soviet Bloc countries are much greater than in Japan, which is a highly saturated market. Finally, I'd suggest studying Mandarin; but that doesn't seem to be a choice.

Answer 4

"I Speak Spanish to God, Italian to Women, French to Men, and German to My Horse."
-- Charles V, King of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor (c. 1550)

The most useful language depends on what you want to do in life. If you are involved in international business, then knowing Chinese would be very helpful.

Where do you live? Are there local opportunities to keep your language skills fresh? Remember, use it or lose it.

Answer 5

Let say, depend your demografy where you live, see what is the biggest miniority and you never know if a future you will work with them, let say, i work witha lor of amenians and russian people, and i think Russian would be the best for me, coz Armenians speak both, so, do your lil' research of who is around you and migth help for your desicion. Good Luck

Answer 6

Japanese will open a whole new world to you. The job opportunities for people who speak Japanese are abundant.

Answer 7

I would take Spanish. If you already you know it the class would be a breeze. If not take French. The accent is so sexy.

Answer 8

Take japanese

Answer 9

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Answer 10

well since my launguage is "endangered" you should try to learn Iroquian if you're going to live in the oaklohoma part of the u.s. i'm cherokee and my launguage is fairly easy if you learn how to pronouce words. since you know spanish i think you'll do well with irouquian