Languages...

[Fragrance of Roses]

Originally Posted by Lebanese_dream

I know all that! Mine will be the mandarin that most of chinese know!
I am not seeking to work in China but over europe, knowing exotic language is a criteria for recruiters to give you a job! Especially now, they are asking more and more for Chinese and Japanese.
Even if i will never use it, it is a very good plus in a CV because nowadays all the students have degrees and it is your originality and your personnality which will help you to take the job! And now after asking several CEO in france, they encourage me to go through chinese because it is a good tool to find a job and a plus because taking italian is so familiar so it won't be a plus!
Then beginning at the same time italian and Spanish will be a real catastrophe cuz ha khabbes it's so similar! So once i will know how to speak spanish, i will atack italian...
That's all....

This is great then!!! You should go with what you think is best for you and make the best out of it!!!

I guess it all depends of your major and your field of work.

Languages teach people to think outside the box. I cannot imagine myself not being at least bi-lingual. In the States, it was always difficult trying to explain odd concepts in grammar to my students, because most of them do not know any other language than English. Languages expand the horizons of the mind, and allow people to better understand different concepts.

For example, while explaining a certain Quran Verse to Americans, I point out to them that in Arabic we have two synonyms for the word "Son," while in English there is only one (hence son of God cannot cannot be translated to Arabic as "Walad Allah" but rather "Ibn Allah"--difference in the meaning of the synonyms)... it always proves difficult to make them understand what that means... :S ALAS!!!! The narrow-mindedness of mono-linguals :P:D

[JulesK]

Originally Posted by AbirWard

The narrow-mindedness of mono-linguals :P:D

HEHE
I don't know how you guys forgot about the armenian language!!!!!
Maybe lebarmenian would come and right some for you guys

As for me, well, i can help him since i can speak armenian too,english is my strongest foreign language,arabic akid and coming in last place, you guessed it,french: back in the days , i used to be pretty good in everything related to the french language, i even passed my french baccalaureat, but during those 2 last years of highschool and for the past 3 years at university, the only french words i spoke were "bonjour" and "bonsoir".And now, even though i watch a lot of french programs on tv, it's not helping, when i try to talk french i just trip over my words, it's really awful.

[Stella]

Originally Posted by AbirWard

I know Hungarian! I sing "Dragosta Din Tei" in Hungarian! (Hope I spelled that correctly) :P:D

Abir dear, sorry to desenchant you, but that song is in Romanian:D, the artists are actually 3 romanian guys, and believe me Hungarian language has nothing to do with the Romanian! :D

But if you wanna hear Hungarian actually, just to make sure whether to take language lessons or not:D or to prepare for your trip:D let me know!

[Thuggishh_E]

i speak arabic & french & english.
last year i learned German w ndmet.
this year i'll take some spanish courses.
u know the spanish language is quickly becoming nbr 2 in the world

[caramel]

I speak french(french educated), Arabic, English and little bit of italian coz I learned it before going there.. and unfortunately didn't practice it anymore later on.
It's an amazing language because the accent is so classy... Makes you feel like singing the words.
I used to love arabic back at school.. but I don't practice it that much in university.. so Writing in arabic is something I dont do very often anymore.
As for french, its litterature is certainly huge and rich.. but I find myself better in english..

[JulesK]

I posted here but i forgot to say which language i would like to learn

I don't know why, but i've always had a thing for italian, wanna do it sometime, maybe take a course at university

[Order]

i speack arabic english and french like everybody i think
i am planing to learn spanish as i just adore this language and i am planing to visit mexico and barcelona (but the problem with barcelone is that they speak catalan and the spanish i can learn is the one used in madrid
after spanish i will try italian apparently once you have one of those you can learn the other easily

[suomynona]

Originally Posted by Lebanese_dream

Most of Lebaneses speak fluently three languages : French, Arabic and English.

If you have the opportunity to learn new languages, which one will it be? and why?

Mandarin, Spanish, Portuguese.
If you want to do business in the civilized world.

--Suomynona

[Solo]

Originally Posted by suomynona

Mandarin, Spanish, Portuguese.
If you want to do business in the civilized world.

--Suomynona

Just curious, why portuguese to do business? far as I know its spoken in Portugal, Brasil, and Guinea Bissau and some "As far as I know" not so economically influential countries.

[Coldplayer]

Well I speak Portuguese well, because I was born in BRazil.
I know how to speak Arabic (with little accent), and English.
Portuguese (Brazilian) is a very fun language to speak, that's my own opinion.
If you know Portuguese you can understand 70% spanish :D
For me English is the best when it comes to business and travelling.
I never had the interest to learn French, although it is still important. French language is loosing its importance worldwide little by little while English and Spanish languages are replacing it.
Many people say French language is a language of Love. Well I do not agree on that since english can be used perfectly when it comes to love. :P