Hello. I need to know the most useful language. I took spanish 1 in middle school, and I swiched to French in 9th grade because I already knew some (so i skipped to french 2). I have won the clemson declamation with 2nd in my category. I want to be a chemical engineer or a piolet, or air traffic controller.
What is the most useful language to learn now?
Thank you!
It depends on where you live and where you want to go in life. If you live in the southern or western US, Spanish can be a good language to have handy. However, if you intend to move to Europe, French or German could suit you better.
Chinese or Spanish or German
Chinese and Spanish countries don’t really need pilots or air traffickers and you need little language to talk about pilot stuff. But man you people speak it, though mainly in China.
Chemical engineers probably travel to Europe a lot, so German is useful.
I’d choose either German or Spanish
I would continue in French for at least one more year to reach a higher proficiency. Some schools want 3 or more years of a single language.
choose the language that seems most fun/ interesting for you. It’s impossible to predict your future, even if you seem to have chosen your career path. Love of a language will compel you to master it. Taking a language that you don’t like because it’s the “smart” thing to do, will make it harder for you to find the motivation you need to become proficient.
If you love it, you will find a use for it.
Choose the language you enjoy learning. it depends completely on what you want to do and where you want to go as for which is most useful. As a side note, if you do learn French (for example) then it is so much easier to pick up another Romance language (say Italian) and even learning another type of language will come much faster.
^ good point.
Pick one and reach level 4. Important for college admissions, and if you reach level 4 or AP or higher it’ll be that much easier to pick up the language you need to learn if need be. (The more you know and manipulate a language, the better your brain gets at it.)
As far as practical use, it’s too early for you to decide, but here are examples.
For hospitality industry, Spanish can be good. It’s also useful in medical school, although French can lead to Kreyol which is in demand. French is important for graduate studies in math (can be in economics also). As you can see,
Why Kreyol?
Lots of people from the French Carribeans (especially Haiti) along the Eastern Seaboard and in some areas of the South/Southwest.
Less commonly spoken than Spanish (requires more initiative: learning French to an intermediate level THEN seeking a community education center that offers Kreyol classes, or learning “experientially” at a clinic or business quarter.)
One reason why i took french was to take college in france because it has a good education for less time and a lot less money.
Im thinking about IB french.
Am i blind? Is taking college in france not good? From what ive heard, it is good.
You mean, attending college in France?
Yes.
@PlayWithPropane For commercial aviation positions, if you decide to become a commercial pilot for a certain airline, you’ll very likely need to be fluent in both English and the language the airline is registered in.
Any of Spanish, French, German, Mandarin, Japanese, etc. should prove useful so it ultimately lies on which language you’re most interested in and think you can become fluent in relatively easily.
If you want to get into Aerospace, Russian might be good since Russia is the other major player in space.
Personally I’d have to say either Spanish or chinese. Spanish because there’s a pretry big community of Hispanic people in he U.Saturday, and Chinese because there are some great opportunities in China and knowing the language would only put you higher on th email latter