Kerrangaroo Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 Contrary to popular belief, China is not the most powerful Country in the world. That would be the USA. They've just bought a major share in the Weetabix company so expect a power shift soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fruitisbad Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 German. :......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fruitisbad Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 tbf they should teach Spanish. then you've got the majority of south America at your feet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medusa Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 Does she not have a choice of other languages like Spanish, Japanese or Chinese? All of them would be significantly more useful than French or German in the future, although French would get you around quite a large proportion of Africa as well as France, just like Spanish would get you round much of South America and lots of the southern US states too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 Does she not have a choice of other languages like Spanish, Japanese or Chinese? All of them would be significantly more useful than French or German in the future, although French would get you around quite a large proportion of Africa as well as France, just like Spanish would get you round much of South America and lots of the southern US states too. I did Spanish at School, hated every second of the lessons (mostly cos the teacher was a grumpy old git who didn't like me) and 20 years later I've forgotten nearly all of it, just get reminders from watching Manuel on Fawlty Towers! If there's one language I want to learn though it's definitely Japanese, not entirely sure why, I just really like it for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d1sxeyes Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 French. While German is a useful language, if she learns French, Spanish and Italian will be easier for her, whereas German isn't so useful as a way into a language family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evildrneil Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 For purely business purposes, if given the choice of any language I would go for Russian and out of French or German I would probably go for German. More people speak French as it's the first or only language taught in many schools so there may well be a smaller pool of German speakers vying for the jobs. While it used to be the case that Germans would speak English in business meetings that is apparently changing now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Graham Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 If you are learning just to pass an exam French is easier. If you are learning to enhance job prospects German is more useful. Most northern European languages are Germanic based. One thing I learned is that if you go to the areas of Europe where the Germans go on holiday the locals will have learned German. I got by in Italy by speaking German. Bizarre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nataliie Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 I'd love to speak Italian, but given the two choices I'd probably pick French. But then again I hated learning languages and purposely picked a course at school which meant I wouldn't have to do a language lesson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harleyman Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 French is a wise choice if one is planning on going into the diplomatic service or impressing dinner guests when ordering wine. My choice would be Mandarin Chinese. As China continues to become a huge trading partner with the rest of the world there will be a definite demand for people as intrerpreters but most students in China are studying English anyway these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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