Language to entry

[MTF]

Spanish, French and German are the most useful languages after English due to their geographic distribution (German less but still, it's widespread in Europe and is behind very strong economies).

Other than that, it depends where you live and what you want to do.

Italian isn't very useful compared to Spanish. If you're learning as a passion then that's fine. Otherwise I'd continue with Spanish.

 

[Consolation]

Should have put Mandarin. It's the official language in China, of which soon going to beat U.S in economic power.

I don't speak Mandarin but I'm from Malaysia. Most Malaysians of Chinese ethnicities speak Mandarin. These Malaysian-Chinese are stereotyped as high-income earners and business-minded people. I did work with one and currently I have one client who speaks Mandarin.

That one client switched to Mandarin (due to habit) whenever he's talking to his business partner. I think it's funny because I feel like I'm speaking to an interpreter when the 3 of us are having a conversation.

If my business are going international, I'll learn Mandarin. There's no added benefits learning Mandarin, in terms of running a business locally when most people in my country are natural born polyglots.

Trivia: If you know Indonesian, you can have a big pool of demographic data in 4 countries: Indonesia (obviously), Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei.

 

[StrikingViper69]

During a rough patch of my middle school days I found a lot of inspiration in Japanese anime's like Black Clover and One Piece with their main characters being badass freedom seekers, incredibly kind to those who needed it most, and filled with unlimited perseverance. Since then I've wanted to learn Japanese and I've even drafted preliminary ideas for animes to produce.

For Italian, pizzas my main comfort food and currently holds the top spot of my favorites. I generally enjoy all foods Italian and I want to visit that gorgeous country one day. I hear the garden of Ninfa is the most beautiful in the world two. Plus, that's where many great pieces of culture are housed and I think it would be eye opening.

Pizza and anime should not be the basis for a business decision.

But this the cart before the horse.

What business/field do you want to go into? What language does that require? Unless languages is the field you want to go into, this is totally back to front thinking.

 

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