<p>chances are yes. when did the economicstt publish, i can help clarify better.</p>
<p>1881-1973 (his life span). He mostly published around 1910-1950.</p>
<p>A friend of mine lives in Vienna; she's Austrian. She claims that Austrian German is more "pure" than Germany German, however she can perfectly understand a German's German perfectly. There are slightly different pronunciations, but none that are too radically different that a person knowing Germany German wouldn't be able to figure out.</p>
<p>In terms of writing, it's all the same.</p>
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<p>kuddos to your friend being really rich, i mean now it might have changed, but a prussian, who would speak hoch deutsch as i do, cannot understand an austrian, its just not possible. Also, he definatly would have written proper german, without a doubt</p>
<p>Thanks for the info, proper german it is.</p>
<p>my understanding is Germans and Austrians can understand eachother; high German (or German spoke in Germany, out of Bavaria) is considered pure. Bavarian German is a bit bastardized (still awesome and all), and Austrians do have a different accent. This information has been gleaned from my German teacher, my father (my g'ma was from Munich, my g'pa from Alsace), and some Austrians my mom works with in Salzburg.</p>
<p>Chinese will make you very, very rich because China is this sort of odd free-market communist economy. It's a pretty difficult language to learn and as more and more firms enter into business with China, diplomats and international business people, investors, speculators, etc. who speak the language will be in high demand.</p>
<p>There are different dialects in Austria and Germany, so someone from Munich might not understand colloquial German from Vienna, but that doesn't mean that they can't communicate. In school kids learn how to read/write/speak high German whether they're from Germany, Austria, Switzerland or wherever. Although one of them did tell me that some Austrian-made movies and such have to be subtitled because they're hard for Germans to understand.</p>
<p>On a somewhat related sidenote, I was watching some documentary the other day that was filmed in some part of Queensland, Australia and they had it subtitled because the dialect of English they speak there is supposedly hard to understand. But by the same tolken, it's not as if people from Queensland don't know standard English.</p>
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<p>lol i find it funny how many people are saying you should speak spanish. beleive me unless you plan on living close to the mexican border spanish is pretty useless. In europe most people learn 2 other languages besides their own, French (sometimes german) and English. French and English are international languages because they were both colonial empires. Altough Spain did hold some colonies in centrial and south america in the big scheme of things it wasnt a huge colonial empire after about 1650. </p>
<p>If i had to pick a language to take in college it would be english, but since your asking for forieghn languages i would say chinease, because alot of business is moveing there. French is ok but you could get around in Europe pretty well with English.</p>
<p>ps. i live in socal so i kno the use of spanish there, but in the big scheme of things its not important.</p>
<p>a lot of people say chinese is hard, really its not, reading would be yes, but it is easy other than that, just stringing words, and pretty simple</p>
<p>i have to go to an advisor up at my college soon and talk about what courses I want to take...I know I am going to take Spanish but should I do intro Japanese or Intro German? I am so torn between the two!</p>
<p>are you going to study europe or asia more? do you have any idea what kind of career you are going for? i think japanese will be more useful in the future, but if your interest doesn't lie in asia, then that means a lot too. german is still widely spoken in europe, though english is also increasingly used. i am taking japanese now, so i'm a bit biased, though i did take three years of german in middle/high school</p>
<p>NONE. Study the languages because you enjoy them. English will continue to be the lingua franca for decades, if not a century.</p>
<p>All business between America and Japan is conducted in English.</p>
<p>Most Chinese businessmen know English.</p>
<p>It's ethnocentric, yes, but the reality is that English still manages to be the business language of the world. However, I recommend studying a language, if only for fun.</p>
<p>For business especially, speak Spanish. Not only is it a ridiculously interesting language, but the literature is incredible.</p>
<p>Chinese is also something you ought to learn because such a huge number of people speak it and because China is on the rise as a powerful country.</p>
<p>I'm personally rather partial to German and Japanese as well, but those are just fun for me. Useful, yes -- my mom was VP of Bayer and the German people she worked with loved that she could speak to them. And German isn't "dead" in the world of business either. Japanese is just really cool.</p>
<p>Are you sure you want to take 2 languages at once? Maybe you should just focus on Spanish until you get that to a really high level, then move onto another. Just a thought</p>
<p>But I totally agree w/ UCLAri; study the one you feel most passionate about. Learning a language takes a long time, and if you're not really into it, it will be miserable or you'll just stop after a while.</p>
<p>That said, I'm also a huge fan of both German and Japanese.</p>
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<p>I speak four languages, English (I think...), Japanese (fluently), Spanish (read and write well, speak like crap), and some Chinese.</p>
<p>BTW, my last post was written by an impostor! (my daughter)</p>
<p>日本語は面白いが、すごく難しいな。しかし、日本に行くと、日本語出来るなら、いいことだろう。</p>
<p>俺の文法は悪くなっていて、多くの単語を忘れちゃった。最近、日本語の新聞を読む見て、出来なかった。 ＜：＿：＞</p>
<p>Wow, you can type in other languages on this forum...</p>
<p>The same thing happened to me. My Japanese is crap now.</p>
<p>but the mods are gonna delete that! English-only ;-)</p>
<p>Really? I didn't know. C'mon mods, it was just a test, leave it be!</p>
<p>It shows how multicultural we are!</p>
<p>::beleive me unless you plan on living close to the mexican border spanish is pretty useless::</p>
<p>I believe that's one of the most ignorant statements I've seen so far on CC. And there have been many.</p>
<p>Do you realize that Spanish is in the top 3 languages spoken in the world? Latin America is growing REALLY fast, not purely in terms of population (the birth rate is actually down drastically) but economically. </p>
<p>Get a clue, please, before posting nonsense.</p>