If you could be fluent in only 5 languages (including Eng.) which would you choose?
06-03-2014, 09:14 AM
I would go strictly for geographical area. In no particular order:
1. Mandarin
2. Spanish
3. Russian
4. Arabic
5. Hindi
You pretty much have the globe covered with those. Only thing I would add would be French, which will cover broad swaths of non-Anglophone Africa. I dislike the way it sounds but hey, it's a language and all languages have their own beauty.
I'll hasten to add Hindi isn't necessary, since India speaks English, so perhaps I should have replaced that with French.
I already speak Mandarin, German, and Greek but, with the exception of the first, they are not the most commercial languages.
1. Mandarin
2. Spanish
3. Russian
4. Arabic
5. Hindi
You pretty much have the globe covered with those. Only thing I would add would be French, which will cover broad swaths of non-Anglophone Africa. I dislike the way it sounds but hey, it's a language and all languages have their own beauty.
I'll hasten to add Hindi isn't necessary, since India speaks English, so perhaps I should have replaced that with French.
I already speak Mandarin, German, and Greek but, with the exception of the first, they are not the most commercial languages.
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