<p>my public speaking teacher said its chinese , but ive already taken 6 years of spanish altogether now as hs junior ...</p>
<p>chinese
spanish</p>
<p>so you do you think i should stick w. spanish ? or try chinese and then like take the spanish at a CC ?</p>
<p>How well do you already converse and read/write in Spanish? </p>
<p>In the business world, it would probably be most advantageous to develop a real fluency in one language rather than to have a more limited knowledge of two languages -- particularly since Spanish and Chinese really have nothing in common (not even an alphabet!)</p>
<p>Well im in spanish III right now @ hs and im pulling a solid B , and I'm a pretty good spanish speaker I'd like to think .... usually do well in class presentations , and when we talk in spanish about our weekends. Plus next year I'll be in spanish 4 dual credit which is emphasizing conversational spanish. Writing in spanish is another thing I'm decent not stellar. What I can do is you give me spanish text and I can translate like no other ... Spanish is one of my favorite classes</p>
<p>spanish is great to learn- many emerging countries are spanish speaking (mexico, argentina, ecuador, etc)</p>
<p>china will be an economic superpower one day- so chinese is also a good one to learn</p>
<p>so should I just stick w. spanish ?</p>
<p>te sugiero que sigas tomando espanol. si hablarias fluido, trata chino. Pero, es importante que tu hables una idoma fluido.</p>
<p>gracias puedo sacar espanoles en la universidad</p>
<p>yo puedo hablar chino!</p>
<p>yo advinaria que eres de china.</p>
<p>yo estoy de taiwan :) actualmente mis padres estan de taiwan..</p>
<p>oo me gusta espanol. I am having the same problem with choosing a language since yea china is becoming huge. pero no se si quiero sacar chino porque es mas differente</p>
<p>Chinese is pointless. You won't get even remotely good enough to do anything useful. You could learn Spanish/French for less time than it takes to get good at Spanish.</p>
<p>There's a multitude of bilingual chinese and indian people...try another language. I'm taking Japanese but their kinda in stagflation...so...</p>
<p>I'm taking Spanish right now. I really love it. I can understand romance languages pretty well because I took six years of Latin (the joy). I think its quite useful because the Hispanic population in America is only going to grow and we may become a dual language society (I really don't think we will). Communication is an important part of business. My theory is that by speaking the language and knowing the culture, one can show that they can relate to people and make deal more easily. I am dying to take Hindi...I already speak another, less spoken Indian language in addition to English. I'd like to learn Portuguese too, but for selfish reasons ;-)</p>
<p>Can you understand punjabi?</p>
<p>Here I go talking about myself again...</p>
<p>Spanish-Hispanic population
Chinese [Mandarin]-Growing Power
Hindi-Growing Power (English is the official language, but to understand the culture...)
German-...they make the best cars!
Italian-Pick up women?
French-See Italian
Russian-May be more useful in like 20 years
Japanese-They make a lot of electronics and they make a lot of cars</p>
<p>Spanish and Chinese are the two important ones in my opinion.</p>
<p>No...not Punjabi.</p>
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Chinese is pointless. You won't get even remotely good enough to do anything useful. You could learn Spanish/French for less time than it takes to get good at Spanish.
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Makes me feel special:)</p>