Re: Best Non-English Language to Learn for Business

"William Jonson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> I would like to learn a second language to improve my marketability
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> My native language is American English. What would be a good second?

What line of work are you in, where do you live and what are your interests?
Why not learn two or three languages? Any second language is good.

Make sure you pick a mainstream language, as opposed to some ancient dialect
from Micronesia! You'll probably find that a lot of Malaysian people speak
Cantonese or Mandarin, but not many Chinese people speak Malay. Think about
Mandarin, Japanese, German and Spanish. I think those, together with
English, are the biggies.

(I've traveled quite a bit and have always found people who speak good
enough English to accomplish the business at hand.)

Mike