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arabic a good language?
california_love8
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Hey,
I was wondering if Arabic or Farsi would be a good language to take in college. I like learning different languages, and would ideally like a language that utilizes international travel, and since I have a genuine interest in learning arabic, would that be a good language to learn, or should I just stick with spanish or even portugese because of Brazil's growing economy? Aside from being fun, would Arabic in all honesty be good to learn if you're not interested in the oil, but rather IT industry? For that matter, would portugese or spanish be good for the IT industry or would I need a more asian language like Japanese or something?
16 repliesI was wondering if Arabic or Farsi would be a good language to take in college. I like learning different languages, and would ideally like a language that utilizes international travel, and since I have a genuine interest in learning arabic, would that be a good language to learn, or should I just stick with spanish or even portugese because of Brazil's growing economy? Aside from being fun, would Arabic in all honesty be good to learn if you're not interested in the oil, but rather IT industry? For that matter, would portugese or spanish be good for the IT industry or would I need a more asian language like Japanese or something?
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If you want to work "IT" you need to know English. There is no other relevant language. The main IT firms are either US or Indian w/a few others.
Regardless, i would still recommend learning Spanish seeing as you already live in Mexico North.
No.
The same is true of programming languages. If you don't use it, you lose it. This effect is amplified given that technology changes so rapidly.
Also, what are good European languages to learn? I think I might also like working in Europe, so yeah.
The best European language to learn is French or German. Those are the two leading countries in the EU, they have the largest population, and are spoken in other countries. German is also spoken in Austria, Luxumberg and Switzerland. French is also spoken in Belgium, Luxumberg and Switzerland.
I can also imagine that Russian would be useful.
Can't help you with use in IT though
Also, how is Russian useful (sorry, I keep asking about different countries)? I really should educate myself more about some of these developing nations' economies. Is there also any place I can read more about Brazil/Russia and why they will be economic "powers" in addition to a cliffnotes summary of why they are good to know?
However, there are LOTS of jobs for good translaters of Arabic, especially with the national security organizations. From this perspective, Arabic might be the best of the bunch as far as jobs go,but you REALLY need to know it well.
Hindi has many words which do come from Arabic. The scripts are different though but it should still help a bit.