From the second link:
While German may be among the most in demand languages in the troubled 17-nation eurozone, other global languages were also gaining appeal with jobseekers.
So what other 'global languages' are gaining popularity in your part of the world?
spanish in german schools and amongst german pupils (students) is totally overrated. "(...) deu.: man muss spanisch sprechen um in der welt voran zu kommen, ohne spanisch verliert man schnell den anschluss (...), die halbe welt würde spanisch sprechen, das müsse man doch wissen!"
eng.: "one has to speak spanish to become someone in the world of today (a global world, we live in a global world), without spanish one would not gain anything (...), half of the world's population speaks spanish, one should know this better!"
wrong.
the correct answer is: everyone in spain (south america, the american west coast, florida, central america, mexico) that knows something (has learned a profession, has studied) speaks 'english, the airliner language'.
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french is overrated for the same reason - the correct answer is: everyone in france (africa, central america, french polynesia as well as micronesia) that knows something (has learned a profession, has studied) speaks 'english, the airliner language'.
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the turks (turkish) (we call them 'die türken' in german) know about this problem, they all speak german, 'the engineers language', 'the salesmen language' as well as english, 'the airliner language'.
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the croats (croatians) (we call them 'die kroaten' in german) know about this problem, they all speak german, 'the engineers language' as well as english, 'the airliner language'.
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the polish (polish) (we are neighbours so we call them 'die polen' in german) know about this problem, they all speak german, 'their neighbours language', 'the engineers and historic language' as well as english, 'the airliner language, their 'chicago language' as well as their professional as well as scientists as well as doctors language'. besides, taxi drivers speak german as well as english in warsaw because it is 'their clients language'.
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o.k. - who else except tom hall speaks english.
i will give him some german lessons, in london (free!).
deu.: "guten tag der herr/herr doktor" - (eng.: "good day, mister/dr. (...)")
deu.: "ich lebe ein langsames leben" - (eng.: "i live a slow life.")
deu.: "ich möchte deutschland kennen lernen" - (eng.: " i want to learn more about deutschland.")
ahmmm, we call "germany", "deutschland", in germany, not germany - as well as not "pornoland".
deu.: "darf ich im bundestag einmal eine rede halten?" - (eng.: "may i speak in bundestag one day?")
the portuguese (die portugiesen), ("herr moreira (...") - ('herr' means 'mister' in english, 'herr' is german), (we say 'deutsch' to 'german', not 'german').
the portuguese, they speak english as english, as, GUESS(?) - RIGHT(!), 'the airliner language', german, 'the professional language' as well as the 'workers language'. the portuguese are not interested in german engineering as far as i remember.
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the swiss speak german, or 'schwitzerdütsch' ('baseldütsch', 'berndütsch', 'züri-deutsch') - for the swiss, germans are lower-middle-class. it's the bavarian lower-middle-class they mean in fact. all of them, bavarians. it's the SVP that thinks for the swiss. for the swiss, german is 'the lower-middle-class language'.
i am repeating myself, i know, i know.
i know - i know - i know!
ahhh, england is calling!
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the austrians speak german - they just believe we are neighbours, they know about our (and their) class system.
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the rest of all countries are fine with us i believe.
companies in germany "do not pay for languages" - french is unimportant, that is not true. who speaks french in germany, hotel employees, star (michelin**) cooks, older lower-middle-class women, some upper-middle-class women.
the german upper-class has to learn languages again in general.
english is of utmost importance, YES(!), 'the airliner language', RIGHT(!), spanish is spoken by older middle-middle-class germans (men, gentlemen, because of mallorca).
HEY!
we call 'mallorca' - 'mallorca', not 'majorca'.
the british call 'mallorca' - 'majorca'.
because the brits, the anglos-saxons, RIGHT(!), are germans.
if we want, we can rename 'haus windsor' (in 2013/2014), dr. angela merkel can do it (if she wants), back into the old name before 1943 (?), (1917 - wikipedia was of help).
we can do it 2017 then, 'haus sachsen-coburg-gotha'.
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there are no WASPs in new england, WASPs are in fact, right, 'white anglo-saxon protestants', ger.: 'weisse angelsächsische protestanten'.
'haus sachsen-coburg-gotha' again.
the WASPs have to learn german!
where is tom hall?
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superlufti2000 from nuremberg (nürnberg) in germany
P.S.: "(...) where is shannon - martin's mayflower girl from maine he picked up at travelodge, in (...), she is playing with a dog but cannot find him (..?)".
Strange reply.
In my business, oilfield engineering, the trending language seems to be Portuguese followed by Russian. You need them to communicate with highly-qualified engineers in Brazil and Russia. German oilfield engineers all speak English..
where is tom hall?
A zillion years ago, a lot of Branches had individual moderators. Tomh moderated SiT.
Here in California, Spanish is more of a give, than a language gaining popularity. Mandarin is probably the language most on the ascendance.
Chinese, Japanese Language Education Grows from last April, but the data is from 2008.
>French and Spanish used to be the only foreign languages offered in high school. While most students are still taking one of those two, languages like Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and Arabic are increasingly being offered in high schools, according to a recently released survey by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.
>More than 70 percent of all public school students who enrolled in a foreign language took Spanish, and another 15 percent took French, but enrollment in Chinese nearly tripled between the 2004-05 school year and the 2007-08 school year, from 20,292 to 59,860. Enrollment in Japanese classes increased 17 percent, and it remained the fifth most-taught language, after Spanish, French, German, and Latin
However, nationwide, only 18.5% of students (kindergarten though 12th grade) studied a foreign language.
