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i'm a native anglophone with 4 years of background in french who is about to start studies at university. which language do you think i should take there? i'm not sure what field i want to go into after graduation, but i think i might want to do something in government or politics. any suggestions?

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i'm a native anglophone with 4 years of background in french who is about to start studies at university. which language do you think i should take there? i'm not sure what field i want to go into after graduation, but i think i might want to do something in government or politics. any suggestions?

I'd suggest sticking with French, major in it. If you want politics, become a translator, or ambassador. Or, teach politics class in France. *grins*

i'm a native anglophone with 4 years of background in french who is about to start studies at university. which language do you think i should take there? i'm not sure what field i want to go into after graduation, but i think i might want to do something in government or politics. any suggestions?

If you want to work in local or national politics where you are, stick with French. It's also useful if you're interested in international politics. If you want another language, that's going to depend on where your interests lie.

I heard that the government is in dire need of arabic translators.

Apparently, we invaded a country no one knows the language of. :rolleyes:

Machiavelli must be rolling in his grave.

If you want to make loads and loads of cash of your language skills, study Mandarin.

Then, when you graduate, go to China and teach English. You can make up to $10.000 a month teaching in Beijing.

Ten years ago you could earn a fortune teaching English to the Japanese but now it is so widely taught in Japanese schools that there's no longer as much demand for private English teachers. The same will happen with Mandarin as China advances.

I'd say look for a language that is spoken in many countries where those countries aren't likely to have mandatory English lessons in schools.

The two languages that I think fit this bill are Arabic (most of these countries wouldn't teach English for anti-Western reasons) and Spanish (spoken in many South American countries where English is not widely known due to economic factors).

But your interests have to come into it too. You aren't going to enjoy learning about a language if the culture doesn't interest you...

Mitterand, hmmm, Francois Mitterand President of France formerly, fascinating. French is certainly worth while, its one of the six official UN languages. I myself have found Russian to be rather useful, at times, not only can one speak Russian, but Polish, Ukranian, and Swedish become slightly readable as a result, but of course you speaking french are aware of linguistic inheritence. German is also useful for many of the same reasons as Russian, one can read Dutch, Afrikaans, and decipher Hebrew, Yiddish, and Anglo-Saxon as a result of learning the all to slighted German language. Though admittedly, Arabic and Mandarin are more useful in government service one needs to be careful when studying Mandarin about the system used to decrypt the glyphs, one system called Pinyin was developed, according to my sources by Russian/Soviet linguists to Russify the language. By the by, are you left handed or right handed, studies suggest Left handed people are more successful at learning Arabic than right handed. When you say government what were you thinking, and is that FRENCH or Qubecoisse? pardon my spelling please

have you though about Klingon? I hear Vulcan is perty neat. You never know, it E.T. comes visiting, somebody has to say "hi". Klatoo Verata Nicktoe! :D