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What's the best language apart from English to learn for a business career?

>> No.32617

Mandarin

>> No.32648

Deutsch

>> No.32678

American

>> No.32680

>>32648
this SIEG HEIL

>> No.32674

>>32612
Java.

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32691

Hebrew

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32704

>>32691

>> No.32738

>>32612
English is the only relevant language on the planet

Everything else is just a waste of time

>> No.32728

I hear Japanese is good to learn

>> No.32764

Español

>> No.32783

You could spend that time developing a skill (or degree) that's actually useful to advance your career.

For business, it's only useful to learn another language if you know you're going to be on an assignment that could use it.

>> No.32773

French(africa, europe), spanish(americas),

>> No.32805

>>32764
I concur... It's good for dealing with Venezuela, Spain, and Argentina.

>> No.32822

>>32612
Chinese.

>> No.32846

It entirely depends on where you are located and what type of business you are in?

If you live in Montreal, it is probably beneficial to know French and English. If you live in San Diego, you probably should know English and Spanish. If you are a high-level executive in an US company that travels to Japan a lot, you should probably know Japanese and English.

>> No.32837

It depends on what industry. If you're in pharmaceuticals, Indian. In most professional industries, Mandarin.

>> No.32852

English is the language of trade
anything else and you might as well be a translator than a business man

>> No.32855

>>32612
depends on the market you're in

>> No.32874

the only relevant country that doesn't speak english well is japan

>> No.33182

>>32612
Spanish, it's probably the widest spoken language, aside from English which most people learn as a second language

>> No.33189

C++

>> No.33259

I'm a finance student in Australia who's learning Mandarin because of the growth and importance of China to Australia

>> No.33301

>>33182
Seconding if you happen to be in the southern end of the US.

Portuguese too if you want to really get down far into South America.

>> No.33343

>>33189
or C, or even COBOL or something used by legacy machines in large financial institutions. All the modern garbage , especially enterprise Java, is being outsourced to sanjay and gupta

>> No.33355

>>33343
Is there really a market for COBOL? Surely they just need one guy for maintenance or something. I'm not a programmer

>> No.33374

>>33355
There are more COBOL programs than any other language in the world. Around 80% of the world's actively used code, at over 220 billion lines.

>> No.33379

>>32728
>eternal recession

>> No.33392

>>33343
My friends made ~$40 an hour doing Java at Wallstreet firms as interns in 2011. Doubt it's being outsourced because they want people the FBI can touch.

Even if they have to bring Sanjay and Gupta in on an H1B.

>> No.33449

Just pick the language/country you like.

I became unusually fluent in Japanese for a foreigner and easily found a job in Japan due to that and my other skills. If I chose Chinese or whatever I'm sure the story would have been the same.

>> No.33461

>>33374
That's great news from 1997, Mr. Wikipedia.