How many foreign languages do you need to know? Germans know English and French you don't need to know other languages very well Ukrainians know Russian because of the Soviet occupation
Americans would do well to learn Spanish right away! Thanks to years of Obama and Biden, the U. S. is drowning in Spanish speakers and they don't typically do too well with American English. Fortunately its not too hard to learn Spanish since both Spanish and English have the common root language in Latin. Most Americans can go to a Mexican website and at least figure out what the stories say in a general way. There are a lot of countries where learning English is mandatory and Germany is one of them. https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/global-eng...english-is-mandatory-or-optional-subject.html
in order for a European to have good commerce with Washington and London, he must know advanced English
My son knows Spanish, Portuguese, German, Mandarin, French and English and can also read music and play the piano, I am a proud father.
I assure you he is fluent and proficient. Quality is nice, but if a job is really worth doing it is worth doing badly rather than not at all.
Most speakers of other languages that you will encounter in international business, science, and technology know English better than you will ever know their language. They will almost always switch to English instead of continuing in their language. Being able to read Chinese is the most practical foreign language, since it opens up the second largest scientific and technical publications.
Florida has a long history of having very large Latino population (Miami has more Spanish speakers than English speakers), so knowing Spanish is a big plus here. Also, knowing Spanish opens the doors to retirement in Spain, or Latin America. But of course you don't NEED to know other languages. You NEED very few skills to get through life. Knowing the basics is heaps and bounds better than knowing nothing.
Need to know, none. I’m referring to the word need. Every other country knows English enough to conduct business and cater to tourists and visitors. Knowing another language is nice, but not needed.
Of course. Or French, or Spanish, or Chinese. Languages are skills, and skills make money. You don't need any professional skills, but you'll make a heck of a lot more money if you have them.
LOL. No. If you are American and know English and Spanish, it will help you make more money AND it opens doors to other places. Why do you think its a minus?
And that means absolutely nothing. You are missing the point. In US knowing German is almost useless compared to knowing Spanish.
Here is something little known. Far Eastern languages that use characters such as Mandarin and Japanese, the written script is the same for those languages although they are all very different as spoken languages. A bit like you can read and write and speak English, but can also read and write Italian even if you can't speak it or understand when somebody speaks it to you
I can't speak Spanish very well, but I understand a lot of it. Enough to know when my in-laws are talking behind my back. It's kind of funny, my mother-in-law is the opposite: she can't speak English very well, but she understands it, so the two of us have entire conversations where I'm speaking to her in English and she's speaking to me in Spanish.
Not to mention the fact that, aside from some older generations, most Germans can converse in English just fine.
I've been hired for several well-paying projects here in the US for Spanish website integration and downstream support. The only time I even see openings for these kinds of projects in the US is if they are specifically setting up a new location in Germany. Bilingual English/Spanish speakers are in FAR greater demand here.
