<p>What would be the top 3 most helpful, practical languages to take in college and with Rosetta Stone for Counter Terrorism Studies/Homeland Security majors? I have taken 4 years of high school Spanish and can get by if need be. But I’d like to try new languages.Please and thank you!</p>
<p>Chinese, Arabic, Russian. </p>
<p><a href=“FBI — A National Security Crisis: Foreign Language Capabilities in the Federal Government”>http://www.fbi.gov/news/testimony/a-national-security-crisis-foreign-language-capabilities-in-the-federal-government</a></p>
<p>I believe most Arabic taught here is MSA, Modern Standard Arabic, not Yemeni…
OP hope you realize “can get by” is far less than what they want. You can ask your profs which language to start. </p>