Best language for an International Relations/ Econ major??

momrath
Fri, 23 Jun 2017 01:56:19 +0000

@yvoon98, I’d agree that your choice of language depends on your geographic and cultural area of interest (and also the choices offered by your school). For example, if you’re leaning toward Europe, then French or German. For Central and South America, you’re covered with Spanish, but may want to add Portuguese. For Africa, French. For the Middle East, Arabic. For Asia, Chinese.

There are other less common taught languages that are spoken by millions of people (in some cases hundreds of millions) living in some of the world’s political and economic hotspots, like Korean, Farsi, Hindi, Indonesian. Again, it depends on your interests.