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Only in USA learning a foreign language would be considered a waste.
by elviejo 17y ago
Only in USA learning a foreign language would be considered a waste.
- anamax 17y agoThe US and the EU are of comparable population. Being able to speak Texan, Californian, and a couple of other American dialects gets me as far in the US as knowing German, French, Italian, and Spanish would get me in the EU.
- philwelch 17y agoWhich is why you go for big continental languages. Spanish will get you most of Latin America, English will cover you fairly well over most of Europe, North America, India, and Australia, Arabic will cover the Middle East, and then probably the biggest languages left are Russian and Mandarin. I don't know what languages would help in Africa, but French seems like another big colonial language.