1. China is huge and "up and coming", so I see the need as high to know the language. 2. Translators get paid very highly, about $75/hour average 3. It's so different from my native language of English, I prefer to have it as my "freebie". Even though I am partially fluent in Spanish, Portuguese, and ASL, and I think Spanish is more handy for me, and ASL is more beautiful, I think they are easier to learn than Mandarin, so the "know instantly" feature I select a more difficult language.
Russian would be my second choice, for some similar reasons. French third, because for some reason I have this weird precognition that the love of my life is French or French speaking.
First of all I am blessed to know Arabic language, and it’s the language I love the most. Everything in it is amazing including vocabulary, easy grammar and great linguistics. But as someone who loves learning languages, I wish I can speak Latin language which is the mother of western languages.
Maybe Japanese which might seem odd since Japanese is my native and first language! :-D Yet I only know a fraction of the Kanji characters that Japanese who spent their entire schooling studying Kanji. I missed much of that schooling spending my teenage years in countries like Singapore and the US. So I struggle just to read a newspaper, for example.
probably chinese - Mandarin or Cantonese. i can't get the pronunciation almost at all. and if you include the writing then that's even crazier (which is shared with japanese kanji). plus, they are a huge superpower that will probably be dominant enough to make chinese replace English in the international arena. and there are hundreds of dialects that will be easier to learn once you master the more popular language.
I definitely need to know Spanish, I definitely want to learn French, but given the way things are going… Chinese will probably be of more use once the US Dollar is no longer the world reserve currency, and is replaced by the Chinese Yuan!
I'm currently trying to learn Spanish, but it's really hard to really take the time , so it's just a little here and there soo learning it immediately would be nice
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