Which language would you say an English speaker should learn if they want to give themselves an opportunity to find...

Which language would you say an English speaker should learn if they want to give themselves an opportunity to find international employment?

You arready speak the lingua franca, learn japanese if you are into weeb shit.

morse

Depends where you want to go, if you want to go to Europe English/German are the most widely used for business.

German or french

you already speak english, what is the damn problem now, burgerman?
If europa then german/arabic (just in case things get worse)
japanese if you like weeabo shit

Speaking English is only one half of the equation, my friend.

The place with the most potential for future growth. I was thinking Brasil or China.

European countries seem like they would be difficult to crack with the number of people already living there who already speak English as a second language and have completed higher education.

Chinease

You will never ever learn a second language fluently, Tyrone.

Get over it already and stop making stupid threads about it.

If I were black I would already be speaking two languages.

There are only three languages required for an Anglo:

1. English
2. Latin
3. Greek

Esperanton

If you want that sheikh money: Arabic
If you want that oligarch money: Russian
If you want that Chinese billionaire money: Mandarin
If you want an average salary boost of $15,000 in Canada: French

Have fun learning Mandarin, the spoken part is not bad but character memorization is a bitch to put it lightly.

Portuguese is not that hard, but Brazil is a mess m8.

Lol are you some "businessman" how are you planning on personally cracking into growth in Brazil or China, ridiculousness.

Anyway I can say that you may be able to learn Port with "business motivation" but if you are some monolingual yank you are not learning Mandarin to a useful level for a good half decade. And you have no real motivation or reason to do so other than a vague employment benefit so you will 99% give up.

I'm not saying learning Mandarin is a waste of time just if you are looking for career progression there are better things to do.


French and Spanish are the more global orientated languages and are both feasible to learn to a business level in under a year. German is about the same difficulty and while more regional to Europe is also equally useful.

Japanese, Arabic and Mandarin will all be valuable and make you pretty stand out and smart however they are hard and not worth it if you don't have any real connection to the language i.e weeb, live in Sweden or want to move to Vancouver.

Russian and Portugese are a bit more middle ground because they are in shitter countries but also lack the massive strength of China or the Arab world. But I think either are worthwhile, though I'd personally rate Russian as the better of the two.

My ideas were about the same. Mandarin is too difficult, takes too long, and cultural differences were still be a pain in the ass probably for the rest of my life.

Portuguese is easier and the culture is similar to my own (compared to China).

English

You anglos truly are retarded.

Learning languages spoken by millions of poor people.

Russian is another language that appears to present many opportunities, but I worry about future political issues that may create travel difficulties and cultural conflict.

Aren't the characters composed of like ~220 basic characters.
So in theory you need to learn those and the rest should be vocabulary?

>hundreds of millions

General: French/Spanish
Europe: German

Poor people. Speaking to them is worthless.

>reading this text
>this really is some informed guy
>reading the last sentence
>kek'd af

Chinese or German.

*tips*

Honey Im gone for a while. I'm on a business trip to Peru. Gonna make millions.

More or less, in Simplified. Not so much with Traditional.

german is a meme, french is way more used in europe than german, that is dying out by english

Tell me more about it. I'm actually very interested in that

Spanish or Mandarin. Japanese is useless unless you're good enough to compete in Japan. If it's Spanish it'll be good enough to talk in over 20 countries, and it's a romance language so it'll help if you try to learn another romance or Iberian language. Same with Chinese if you want to learn other Asian languages that have been influenced by it (to a limited degree with both of them). The thing about both of these is that the populations that speak them will both expand economically in the future, and the people will spread throughout the world along with their business. On a more personal note, there is so much culture you can experience and more opportunities to earn.

Just remember, another language won't do you any good if you have nothing else to offer. Unless you're completely fluent translation alone isn't much. You need to have useful skills as an employee and you need to be able to use those skills well in another language.

I'm learning Japanese now in order to read obscure porn, though, so to each their own.

Kek, you name all of the actual reasons to learn a language (not just meme reasons that lead to failure) and it turns out you're just learning one to read porn. There's something ironic about that.

Taiwanese and most of chinese immigrants/expats use traditional and talk in cantonese, not mandarin
If you want business specially with those in mainland China then I'd say go for mandarin.

This, unless you want to do business in the PRC, which isn't advised.

Yeah. I'm Peruvian and I know both Spanish and English. My dad told me he supports me and Japanese isn't a bad idea for business and stuff, but I just got really into lolicon and touhou, and that's been my driving motivation for a few years. To be honest one of the best feelings is being able to read/understand books and tv without a translation at hand. My speech sounds like shit though.