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Appropriate Language Choices for Career/Grad School
What, in your opinion, are the big three foreign languages (i.e., French, German, and Spanish) best suited to in career choices and/or grad school?
For example, German is commonly known for being recommended for students of engineering and music, etc. What are your opinions on these three languages as they relate to usefulness in careers and/or graduate education? What have you been recommended in your travels?
Spanish: architecture, tourism, medicine.
French: art history, international relations, philosophy
German: science, engineering, music, philosophy, art, international finance
Spanish: travel, health fields, business, social work
Chinese or Japanese for Asian commerce.
German for European commerce.
Russian for Central Asian and East European commerce.
Spanish and Portuguese for South and Central American commerce.
Hindustani for Indian commerce.
<<Spanish: architecture, tourism, medicine.>>
What? How does Spanish architecture compare with that of France and Italy? Spanish speaking countries don't produce many tourists in comparison to say America, Germany, Japan,etc...You can't include (im)migrants.:-
Very few medical discoveries/contributions have been made by Spanish speaking scientists. If one wants to read the quality medical science journals you must speak English or German.
<<Hindustani for Indian commerce.>>
Actually, English is pretty well used universally for business in India.
JLK : « What? How does Spanish architecture compare with that of France and Italy? ».
Tu traverses encore un pic d'hispanophobie délirante. L'architecture espagnole est certainement un des très nombreux trésors de l'humanité.
JLK : « Spanish speaking countries don't produce many tourists in comparison to say America, Germany, Japan,etc... ».
Mais ils produisent beaucoup de tourisme puisque pour 100 touristes reçus aux États-Unis (9,63 Mio km2 — 302 Mio hab — littoral 19.920 km), le Mexique (1,97 Mio km2 — 107,5 Mio hab — littoral 10.140 km) en accueille 44 et l'Espagne (0,50 Mio km2 — 45 Mio hab — littoral 4.960 km) en reçoit 113.
Conclusion (chiffres 2005)
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touristes par km2 : EUA → 5 ; Mex → 11 ; Esp → 111
touristes pour mille hab : EUA 164 ; Mex → 204 ; Esp → 1.236
touristes pour mille km littoral : EUA 2.480 ; Mex → 2.160 ; Esp → 11.210
JLK : « If one wants to read the quality medical science journals you must speak English or German. »
C'est-à-dire que les sommités médicales qui n'utilisent ni ne comprennent aucune de ces deux langues n'ont pas accès au savoir de leur spécialité ? On atteint ici l'himalaya de la sottise.
Greg tiene razon en todo, y JLK no tiene razon en casi nada, como siempre.
El idioma español es muy fuerte a nivel turistico, y por ejemplo, la Organización Mundial del Turismo tiene su sede en Madrid, España.
Además, España, Estados Unidos y Mexico están entre los 10 paises más turisticos del mundo desde hace tiempo. Si se suman los turistas a todos los paises hispanos, el numero es espectacular.
Respecto al mundo de la medicina, es cierto que las revistas especializadas están en inglés. Ahora bien, las páginas web, o los libros de medicina en español procedentes de América Latina, Estados Unidos, México o España, no tienen nada que envidiar a otros idiomas.
Por ejemplo, esta página web de medicina en español de Estados Unidos es excelente:
http://www.hispanichealth.org/cancer_faq_span.lasso
Respecto al comercio internacional, si hacemos una comparativa entre francés, alemán y español, probablemente, el español supera ya a los otros dos a nivel mundial en varios aspectos.
En cualquier caso, también es importante la zona donde se habla. Si se vive en Africa, probablemente, sea más util el francés. Si se vive en Norteamérica o América Latina, el español. Por último, si se vive en la República Checa, probablemente, el alemán.
It depends on your course of study. For example, I'm studying Political Science and I'm focusing on Central and Eastern Europe, so I would do German, Polish, and Russian (Hungarian if I'm feeling especially masochistic) but if you're speaking in general, it would depend on where you live/plan on living. If you're an American, then Spanish, no doubt, should be one of them. Then I'd probably say German and French (in that order).
Not my post....
Half of the architecture in Spain is of Moorish design, so Spain really can't claim it as their own. In my opinion, Barcelona has the most interesting architecture in Spain and it's Catalan.
Guest69: I don't address posts written in Spanish, so please don't get offended as I continue to ignore your existence...
Santiago Calatrava, Moneo, Bofill, are only a few of contemporary prestigious Spanish architects. If there is something that Spain, as a country tipically prope to invest in construction , has given, it is many architects. So please JLK do your homework before opening your mouth, or do you like to so off your ignorance shamelessly?
The first two are Catalan and thus don't count. As I said before, I'm enormously impressed with the architectural genius that has come out of Catalonia unlike the rest of Spain. However they are a different people with a different history and language. Back to the subject at hand, we were discussing the language that would best serve a student or lover of architecture. In the western world, that would be Italian, French, Spanish and in that order.
The first two are not catalan, it is Bofill who is catalan. By the way Catalonia is part of Spain so it's absurd to underline that one architect is catalan. He is still Spanish. Most of the Italian architecture is from the North and most of the French architecture is Parisian ,so you have the same situation.
JLK : « Guest69: I don't address posts written in Spanish, so please don't get offended as I continue to ignore your existence... ».
Guest69 : sois assuré que non seulement JLK a lu ton message avec rage, mais que ce qui l'enrage encore davantage c'est qu'il comprend le castillan à son corps défendant... D'ailleurs le même JLK se pique de connaître le français : on attend toujours une saillie dans la langue de Péguy.
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