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Chinese English Japanese Korean Spanish The first 4 are for business, Spanish is understood by alot of people, including Portuguese and Italian speakers and America is flooded with Spanish speakers. |
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(either portugese, german, russian, or italian) however, the top 4 is quite obvious for the ones that you listed, which i agreed to, as international importance languages. |
Important for what?
Since I like asian girls, I'd say Japanese, Korean, Cantonese, Mandarin and Vietnamese. |
Binary, C, C++, Java, and English
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Like many others, I don't know what you mean by most important, but I'll take it as meaning most influential:
English Mandarin Arabic Spanish Portuguese However, if it's for me, I'd go with; Kabyle English Arabic French German |
In order - for me:
EnglishAnd yet the only ones I know anything of (beyond menu items) are English, French, Japanese and Korean. But other than English and Mandarin (because of their extensive usage), the selection would be highly influenced by your own geographic, cultural and business concerns. The inclusion of computer languages is a case in point. That is critical knowledge for programmers and some of us geeks, but totally useless (even risky) for most computer users in the average company. As for Latin - total wasted effort. (Yeah we took it in the old days - pre 1970s) You will learn the same structures and most of the etymology taking a FAR more useful and viable romance language such as Spanish, French, Italian or Romanian. |
Lexical similarities between Portuguese and Spanish: 89%
I guess that most of the portuguese population is familiar/can understand spanish. (and vice versa) A political merger/union between Spain and Portugal into 1 nation would be great for economic and political reasons. Same goes with merging Brazil and Spanish America. Iberian Federalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edit: - Mandarin - Hindi/Urdu - Spanish - English - Arabic |
All languages are important when looked at a historical view.
Sumerian, Hieroglyphics, Latin, Akkadian, and loads more. Putting languages into a list of "importance" is folly, and is a way to handicap yourself. If I could, I'd love to learn all the ancient languages, and all current languages. Unfortunately, that's not a possibility. Language is a form of communication. Communication is the most important thing on the earth. |
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and thus, the most important language would be the one that gets the most people communicating with eachother
i.e. programming languages since most communication is done using 0's and 1's |
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