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Of these languages what are the best ones to learn?

Spanish

French

Mandarin

Cantonese

German

Russian

Hungarian

Albanian

Italian

Japanese

Hindi

Arabic

Portuguese

Greek

Norwegian

I want to learn at least five foreign languages for traveling and studying abroad so which languages have the best travel places and schools.

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  • 5 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    In order of your listing (without indication my prioritization:

    Spanish

    French

    German

    Russian

    Arabic.

    Personally, I would put Russian, Arabic, and Spanish at the top of the list.

    If you are looking for employability as a linguist, go with the ones that fewest people learn.

    My choices were: Arabic, American Sign Language, and Signed Exact English.

    When it comes to "best schools" the mere power of numbers would force me to say Spanish because more countries speak Spanish as a native language than any other. Then again... it depends on what you intend to study abroad.

  • 5 years ago

    If I had to pick five out of those i would pick:

    1. Spanish (already have learned it)

    2. Portuguese (already have learned it)

    3. Mandarin (starting to learn it)

    4. Hindi (super pretty sounding, India is a cool country, and it has a lot of speakers)

    5. Japanese (really cool culture)

  • 5 years ago

    I would choose Albanian. The special thing about the language is that it really isn't similar to any other language. Sure it has some borrowed words from Latin or Greek, but it doesn't belong to any language-family tree.

  • 5 years ago

    Mandarin Chinese- best for business, Norwegian- best schools, German- also best schools, Spanish- if you want to go to South America or Spain, Arabic- for any country that has Muslims

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  • John67
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    It depends on where you want to go in the world as to which is best. The best in that case won't necessarily be easiest.

  • 5 years ago

    English will get you by everywhere. But if you insist, French, Spanish, Mandarin are the most important.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Spanish and Mandarin are most useful I guess.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Russian, German, French, mandarin.

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