<p>i'd take Spanish. if you don't like Spanish, learn French.</p>
<p>For buisness, chinese or mandarine (im not sure if they're the same thing)..
Between french and german, I'd take french. I think it's prettier and it sounds easier than german. Most french word sound just like english ones.. like umm 'idee' = idea. But im not sure about German. It might be the same.. My friend took german and maybe it's her pronounciation but it just sounded .. fat. I cant think of another word to describe it.</p>
<p>Economically speaking Germany is really the power of the EU. For a business advantage I would take German. Judging by the current economic system, it would probably be better to take Chinese or Spanish.</p>
<p>If you are looking to business definitely take German. French is on its way out, especially in the EU. Many of the new countries speak either English or German, not French.</p>
<p>whoa ur not biased at all! living in germany haha jk jk</p>
<p>Well I found this, looks like Germany is the powerhouse of Europe... <a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/eco_gdp%5B/url%5D">http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/eco_gdp</a></p>
<p>Spanish speaking countries I would imagine wouldn't be good for business, would they? Spain seems like it has an OK economy.</p>
<p>I've taken them both, and french sucks. and german is awesome.</p>
<p>gramatically, german is more similar to english than french is, and the spelling makes sense, and it's just better.</p>
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For buisness, chinese or mandarine (im not sure if they're the same thing)..
Between french and german, I'd take french. I think it's prettier and it sounds easier than german. Most french word sound just like english ones.. like umm 'idee' = idea. But im not sure about German. It might be the same.. My friend took german and maybe it's her pronounciation but it just sounded .. fat. I cant think of another word to describe it.
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do you know what the german word for idea is?</p>
<p>i'll give you a hint: it's idee.</p>
<p>Umm French is most definitely better. German sounds ...well fat kind of describes it. It just ...well...arghh it sounds not pretty ok.</p>
<p>lol thanks gleech for the hint.</p>
<p>tpeck just ignore my post.. i dont know much about german so yeah. It sounds like you've already made up your mind.</p>
<p>yea there's this word that describes the sound of german language other than fat.. i cant put my finger on it right now but it starts with b..</p>
<p>French. I personally think you will get more use out of it than German. A lot of countries have French or French dialects (Canada, for instance, and I think some islands down in the Carribean?) whereas German I think is only spoken in.. Germany. French also sounds beautiful, I love it!</p>
<p>German is also spoken in Austria and (parts of) Switzerland. But Swiss German is apparently like regular German without any vowels, and Austrian German has its own particularities too... But yeah, French is spoken in France, parts of Canada, parts of Belgium, parts of Switzerland, Monaco, Luxemburg, Haiti, a bunch of African countries most people will probably never visit, and all those other places that have ties to the old French colonial empire (while Germany's colonial empire was limited to a sausage factory somewhere in Africa, to paraphrase Blackadder in Blackadder goes forth).</p>
<p>take french!!!!! but im biased cuz my aunt is a french major and im thinking of doing a french major tooo so... hehehe :P but i also want to take german in college.</p>
<p>well personally to me, i think french just sounds soooooo ROMANTIC. i just love the way it sounds. </p>
<p>german.. ehhh too much guttoral ech ech sounds :P</p>
<p>also, i think french is used more extensively in other countries. like canada, switzerland, new orleans
but i dont think german is that geographically spread out. but then again im not too up-to-par with these geographical/language things :P</p>
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Judging by the current economic system, it would probably be better to take Chinese or Spanish.
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<p>What's so useful about Spanish, unless you're American? I'd think Portugese is more important because it's the language of Brazil.</p>
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i think i know you.
im ji-sook.
your child hood friend from 10 years ago when I used to live in vancouver.</p>
<p>Oh I'm most definitely biased. I'm really not a fan of France or French in general.</p>
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also, i think french is used more extensively in other countries. like canada, switzerland, new orleans
but i dont think german is that geographically spread out. but then again im not too up-to-par with these geographical/language things :P
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german is used more extensively in switzerland, hence the url suffix and car sticker thing (CH) comming from the german word Schewiz and not the french word Suisse. in canada and new orleans, english is the dominant language.</p>
<p>there are a number of african countries that use french, though.</p>
<p>But what serious business comes out of those African countries anyway. If you are working in America the languages are English and Spanish, in Europe English and German. France will fight to the death to try and keep French a working language, but it is going out. Way out.</p>
<p>:confused: I've been all over the U.S. and never spoke Spanish before... Even in Arizona and California. I did speak Russian before though, basic Russian, haha.</p>