Best Language For Finance (Int'l Obviously)

[UCLAri]

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Ideally you’d learn Mandarin and Japanese, but those are difficult for people whose native language is Romance or Germanic based. And even if you acquire them, there will be nearly 2 billion people in the world who already speak them, and they’re way better than you. And just knowing the language of those countries isn’t nearly enough to really understand how business works there. Your understanding of Oriental culture will always lag far behind the native people there.

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<p>There are today 1.2 billion or so Chinese, of which approximately 900 million speak Mandarin. There are, at best, MAYBE 130 million Japanese speakers, if you include nikkei living in Latin America and the US. </p>

<p>And “Oriental” is for objects. Like rugs. Asian is a much better and less abusive word for people and their culture.</p>