Posted 28 Jul 2006 Options: 1) Russian 2) French 3) Chinese 4) Arabic 5) Italian 6) Spanish (not fancying it too much, but understand up to 60% of it when spoken, same is valid for Italian and French) Help! I cannot decide... I think I still have a capacity for about 2 extra languages in my memory bin, and would like to start them asap... but I cannot decide. Which of the above you think sells better on the labor market in the next 50 years? 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 28 Jul 2006 My husband is pushing for the kids to start with chinese. He said it is a language he wishes to learn someday. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 28 Jul 2006 Which languages have you learned yet? 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 28 Jul 2006 @ hockeywidow Why? Because they are so many,... the Chinese? @Dostoevsky Well, I have Hungarian, Romanian and English tuned up to approximately the same levels - but all I know for my field of study is actually... all of it in English. Then I have German, which is getting better and better every single day - I am not worried about it. But I want something new now... and cannot decide! 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 28 Jul 2006 business is booming there ( for him anyway) 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 28 Jul 2006 Italian! Wouldn't be so difficult as you already know Romanian, and Italy is close to Munich. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 28 Jul 2006 Will you be learning Mandarin or Cantonese? 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 28 Jul 2006 There may be many Chinese, but they speak a variety of dialects. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 28 Jul 2006 Maybe one should pick Hoch-Chinese in that case... to prevent all confusions from the very beginning.. :lol: 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 28 Jul 2006 If you want to give Chinese a try, be prepared for LOTS of frustration. After years of trying, I'm still not able to talk to taxi-drivers or waitresses... I'm already happy if they understand me when I ask "Where's the toilet, please?"... 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 28 Jul 2006 But Tom, Julia Is a very clever girl. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 28 Jul 2006 Hoch-Chinese, that would be Mandarin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_(linguistics) I don't think many are interested in Arabian languages, you probably could get great insights by learning it. :D 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 28 Jul 2006 No, no Arabic... true... I don't want to become a spy... I just want good decent environmentally friendly work and tasks... anywhere in the world. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 28 Jul 2006 c# How difficult is learning a language compared to learning a programming language? 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 28 Jul 2006 I guess you can learn both badly easily. The problem is becoming good in a language. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 28 Jul 2006 How difficult is learning a language compared to learning a programming language? Not quite infinitely harder, but close. Or to put it another way, there are about 50 keywords in Java, fewer still in C. Now open your dictionary... 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 28 Jul 2006 You've got this question since I know you (March?). 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 28 Jul 2006 She had probably just run out of ideas for starting a new thread. If she was half-way serious about it, by now she would have acquired at least basic skills in one of the European languages on her list. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 28 Jul 2006 But Tom, Julia Is a very clever girl. But Katz, Tom is one of the most clever and nice boys whom I've ever seen. I can understand his oral Chinese in the most cases. The only problem might be that the Chinese taxi drivers don't hold the same Diplom-certificates as their German counterparts...(quoted from a German friend who studied Germanistik.) 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
