Which foreign language is most helpful for my major?

Question

well a little background my fiancee' and i are 20 and i live in columbus, ohio here it is very culturally diverse with lots of different ethnicities and languages my fiancee' speaks french fluently, arabic, yemenese, and somalian some other stuff well for my major (computer information systems) i need to take four classes of any foreign language, i took 4 years of spanish n high school but i want to learn something else plus with our real estate business( traveling to do business in other countries) and a baby on the way i would like to speak something useful to our child. WHAT LANGUAGE SHOULD I LEARN i cant decide for anything and classes start sept 19th.

I know a little sign language (counts a foreign language)
Know some spanish
a little french from listen to my fiance n his family
like one word in arabic
no somalian really

any suggestions on ur favorite language?

Answer 1

Are you planning on living in the United States with your future business? I would definitely recommend becoming fluent in Spanish.

To be honest, unless you're planning on taking lots of classes, at least 4 years worth, it's really not worth picking up a language for one class. It doesn't sound like you can speak Spanish well enough to be confident after four years. One class in a foreign language will likely get you nowhere on actually using the language in real life, unless it's French. If you chose French then your fiance and his family could assist you by only speaking in French to further your education.

I'm from Ohio as well, and the language I've found to be most needed is Spanish. You and your fiance would even be able to decipher portuguese together, and you'd be familiar with a bit of Italian since Spanish is a romance language. Romance languages are based off the same things, thus sharing many forms and making it easy to learn.

Definitely choose a language that you'll actually try to become fluent in. Ever heard, jack of all trades, master of none? With languages, you definitely want to concentrate to become at least a master, and not have a wide selection of languages where you know one or two words.

Good luck and have fun!

Answer 2

Choose a language (possibly one not spoken by your fiancée) which might be helpful where you both intend to travel to. Then you will be a great team. Think of Mandarin Chinese, if you can handle the writing system.

For your child, Spanish might be useful after English.

Answer 3

I would say if you plan to travel, choose the language of a country that you plan to travel in. You didn't mention which countries you plan to travel in, so I can't give you more advice. I doubt that you'll be traveling to Somalia, so you might only find that helpful if you're working with refugees. It sounds like you've got quite a list going already -- maybe you might like to work on improving one of the languages you already know?

Answer 4

French, arms down, for its first-class literary culture and near courting to English literature from the commencing. Unless there are different traditions or detailed authors you experience or who had been affects for the English authors who curiosity you. I consider Russian could even be cool for literature, but it surely'd take longer to study to learn it good adequate.

Answer 5

Spanish.One of the easiest languages to learn.

Answer 6

take Russian - Russians are the great programmers (even one of the Google inventors is Russian) and Columbus has a big Russian community

Answer 7

you want to speak something useful to your child?? lol.

well go for french if you dont speak it already, if you dont wanna do spanish.

Answer 8

japanaese