I live in Florida and I want to be a teacher... I don't know whether I'm staying in Florida after I finish school, though. I have already met my foreign language requirement for college (with Sanskrit) and Spanish doesn't relate to anything I'm really studying. The only advantage I can see is that it might help me in every-day situations in Florida... maybe.
I do plan to join the Peace Corps (maybe), but I'd rather be sent to Eastern Europe (Russian might help) or the Middle East (Arabic) than South or Central America... and I don't know if there's really any way for me to get sent where I'd like to be sent other than pray they need people there badly enough to send me.
German would be interesting to me and seems like fun, but I don't see how it's practical... Arabic, if I learned it well enough, could get me a job as a translator somewhere along the way... Russian would just be hot as hell.
What should I do?Should I learn Spanish, German, Russian, or Arabic?
If you want to see the world outside of the Americas Dont speak Spanish. As apart from Spain it is spoken by relatively few people. English is the only true global language and as you already speak it I would suggest You go for Arabic .
germanShould I learn Spanish, German, Russian, or Arabic?
I had 4 years of German in high school and college. It's fun but not practical. All the Germans speak English anyway!
I would pick Spanish. Most useful in the US and Latin America.
As for the Peace Corp., my aunt is a manager in the Peace Corp and she is stationed in Mongolia.
I think if you were put in most places you would have to learn the local language which is not available in US schools anyway.
I took German in high school. As English is one of my native languages it was rather easy to learn, but living in California left me with few opportunities to practice.
Spanish is the second most commonly spoken language in the US, so if you know you're destined to come back here after the Peace Corps, then El Idioma Espanol may be the way to go.
If you chose Spanish, learn in Florida! (Us Cubans speak with the sexiest dialect ;)Should I learn Spanish, German, Russian, or Arabic?
If German sounds fun for you, then I'd say go for German. Once you learn German, it's much eaiser to understand a wide range of other German dialects (Swiss, Sweedish, Finnish, etc.)
Arabic! teach you if u want :-)
Russian have many words similar to Sanskrit, so maybe that would be nice to study.
I'd suggest you to try to learn Russian or Spanish. I'm Italian, and I'm graduated in English Language and Literature. I've also studied German, which is pretty hard to learn, and, believe me, it's no fun at all! Don't get me wrong: it is a very beautiful language, but it's not exactly useful. When I chose it, I thought that, with time, it would be, but then I had to face the fact that German is not requested the way it is, say, Spanish... and nowadays Russian. As far as the Middle East countries, that is where Arabic is spoken, are concerned, English is widely spoken as well. Good luck! :)
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