Hi, I am a native English speaker living in Australia.
I am currently working as an IT Consultant, with the goal to switch jobs and achieve an international career in Finance.
To help me in my career path I would like two learn two additional languages.
My first thoughts of useful languages would be Mandarin and Arabic.
After doing some research I have found that Spanish and French are also important in international business.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thank You
2007-04-01 23:45:36 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Learn Mandarin, and Chinese people will love you to pieces. Seriously. We know how hard it is for you guys, and the slightest effort you make at it will have us cooing with delight in a second. Plus, you've seen the Asian economic tiger(s) - it's only going to get bigger. Move fast and cash in on the Chinese bourgeois banking boom before it's over. Oh, yeah: did I mention that it's the second most spoken language in the world? (English gets the honor of first.)
W-ell, German's pretty handy, too, in terms of biz and all. You might want to look into that. But it's pretty hard going, I hear.
Spanish is great, just for the culture. Plus, it's the third most widely spoken language, globally. Business? I don't know about the Latino or Castilian economic tigers, so I'm not qualified to comment on that. Relatively easy to pick up, though.
French is more of a diplomatic, United Nations thing. If you're going for international relations/politics, French is the way to go. And it's beautiful.
Write back and tell us which one you chose. I'm interested to know!
2007-04-02 05:11:48 · answer #1 · answered by tigertrot1986 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I speak Italian, Spanish, and French, and I strongly advise you to learn Italian and French. They are identical in grammer structure. More people speak Italian in Europe the Spanish, and Italy is the world leader in certain types of technologies and Italy also has some important business firms. This is the same for France.
2007-04-02 04:15:45 · answer #2 · answered by bobby c 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
French + Spanish
2007-04-01 23:55:22 · answer #3 · answered by bustedsanta 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you should go for spanish and mandarin. They are the most widely spoken language in the world, plus in the area where you live asia is the nearest!
2007-04-01 23:58:04 · answer #4 · answered by Lord Paw 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd say Spanish and Mandarin..^_^
Spanish is quite easy to learn and Mandarin is difficult but i believe it will be very useful for you...
then after learning those two languages you can learn two more if you want..^_^
i think that would be fun....knowing how to speak many languages..^_^
2007-04-01 23:53:50 · answer #5 · answered by qt 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm trilingual, English, Arabic and French, I would recommend Spanish or French because you would need the language to navigate in a french/spanish speaking country.
Arabic is extremly difficult and you wouldn't need it even in an arabic speaking country because almost everyone or 99.99% speaks english.
2007-04-02 05:25:42 · answer #6 · answered by Chickunee 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
French & Spanish.
2007-04-01 23:55:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spanish and Arabic.
They are both spoken by a huge percentage of the world's population.
2007-04-02 04:27:51 · answer #8 · answered by N.S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
personally i found spanish much easier to learn. i learnt french for 4 years, stlil cant speak a word of it =) i started learning spanish last year and i found it really easy to pick it up. hope that helps
2007-04-01 23:52:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
German + Spanish.
Mandarin is icredibly difficult and even then people will find it difficult for them to understand you. German is very usefull in most european countries and they are the financial leaders of the world.
Spanish may also prove to be of use
2007-04-01 23:52:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋