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Foreign Languages That May Help You In Business by Idrismusty97(m): 7:59pm On Nov 03, 2013 |
10. Portuguese Brazil recently overtook the United Kingdom as the world's sixth-largest economy, and with the football World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics just around the corner, all eyes will be on this Portuguese-speaking "Bric" nation. -- These rankings are based on a survey carried out for the CBI Education & skills survey 2012, in which 542 UK firm managers were asked which languages are useful to their business. 9. Japanese Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt's love of the lambada may have earned him more ridicule than respect, but his proficiency in Japanese – he spent two years teaching English in Japan – is held in high esteem among his parliamentary colleagues, and came in useful on a recent trade mission to Japan. 8. Russian Relations with Russia haven't exactly been warm since the end of the Cold War – from the Litvinenko poisoning to the infamous Moscow "spy rock" – but according to the Government's Trade & Investment website, Russia is the UK's fastest- growing major export market. 7. Cantonese The majority of the UK's Cantonese speakers have ties to Hong Kong, where it is the official language. But Cantonese is spoken much more widely around the world, with nearly 70 million native speakers. 6. Arabic Any who doubts the importance of Arabic-speaking business to the United Kingdom's economy should take a look at The Shard – the tallest building in Western Europe was largely made possible by Qatari investment. Or they could just ask a Manchester City fan. 5. Polish Polish makes the top five, with 19 per cent of UK managers rating it as useful for their organisations. Large-scale Polish migration to the UK after the country's admission to the European Union made the headlines, but as the largest consumer market of the new EU member states and the only EU country to avoid recession since the downturn began, business ties with Poland extend considerably further. 4. Mandarin The official language of China – the world's most populous and economically dynamic nation – features highly in managers' preferences. In 2006 Brighton College became the first school in the United Kingdom to made studying Mandarin compulsory for all 13 year-olds. 3. Spanish Valued as a major European language but also as the leading language of fast-growing Latin American economies – as well as its continued rise to prominence in the United States – Spanish is rated as useful by 37 per cent of the employers surveyed. 2. French It may be in seemingly terminal decline as a subject of study in our secondary education system, but proficiency in French remains a highly sought-after skill among UK employers, with 49 per cent rating it as useful for their organisations. 1. German Germany remains the largest single export market for British goods outside of the USA, and Europe's largest economy – with a GDP of more than €2.4 trillion – continues to defy the eurozone downturn . So it's no surprise that UK companies want to hire employees who know their umlauts from their eszetts. source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/9487434/Graduate-jobs-Best-languages-to-study.html?frame=2314788#?frame=2314790 2 Likes |
Re: Foreign Languages That May Help You In Business by Robinson3d: 8:53pm On Nov 03, 2013 |
this is great.But that is if you want to do business outside the borders of Nigeria. If you are in Naija, you need to know igbo, Yoruba, pidgin and warri 5 Likes |
Re: Foreign Languages That May Help You In Business by Big4wig(m): 8:53pm On Nov 03, 2013 |
Abuja gals be lyk..."baby wat d u get 4 me 4 ECLIPSE". 9 Likes
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Re: Foreign Languages That May Help You In Business by UNLEASHED(m): 8:53pm On Nov 03, 2013 |
Where's any Nigerian language 1 Like |
Re: Foreign Languages That May Help You In Business by charlsecy(m): 8:53pm On Nov 03, 2013 |
I want to learn Chinese and French. 3 Likes |
Re: Foreign Languages That May Help You In Business by Antell95(m): 8:53pm On Nov 03, 2013 |
Ok.. Good |
Re: Foreign Languages That May Help You In Business by tunshe: 8:55pm On Nov 03, 2013 |
Thank you, very timely for me to decide my priority between French and Spanish. 2 Likes |
Re: Foreign Languages That May Help You In Business by pelhurmy(m): 8:55pm On Nov 03, 2013 |
french,chinese n German will do.... |
Re: Foreign Languages That May Help You In Business by philusaau(f): 8:56pm On Nov 03, 2013 |
Estoy feliz de que puedo hablar muy bien el español |
Re: Foreign Languages That May Help You In Business by NotNairalandi(m): 8:56pm On Nov 03, 2013 |
Abro,! Why u no write Igbo Language! Are u a learner? Onitsha Main market things on my mind........ 2 Likes |
Re: Foreign Languages That May Help You In Business by Olugbenger(m): 8:56pm On Nov 03, 2013 |
Op, this ur list is rotten and fails to be comprehensive enough. Where is our Best seller; pidgin english? It is very popular here and i need not explain the size of Nigeria's Market and state what my country exports. 4 Likes |
Re: Foreign Languages That May Help You In Business by GSKing: 8:56pm On Nov 03, 2013 |
I know Spanish and a lil Portuguese |
Re: Foreign Languages That May Help You In Business by Nobody: 8:57pm On Nov 03, 2013 |
11. IGBO. Not for Nigerians but Asians 3 Likes |
Re: Foreign Languages That May Help You In Business by dheaven: 8:58pm On Nov 03, 2013 |
But you are suppose to list English as No.1 Germany 2 and so on instead of listing German as No. 1 |
Re: Foreign Languages That May Help You In Business by AjanleKoko: 8:58pm On Nov 03, 2013 |
Okay, this is for the UK. Though I stand corrected, but I'd have thought English alone was sufficient to function in that market. An advanced, highly-diversified economy like Britain is not overly dependent on other markets per se. For Nigeria, I'd say working proficiency in French, and maybe Chinese, is very important, specifically for business and technology graduates. Many educated Francophone West Africans speak English, giving them a distinct advantage for multinational jobs in West and Central Africa. When the Oyinbo companies come calling, they want people who are bilingual and can cover both Anglophone and Francophone markets. 3 Likes |
Re: Foreign Languages That May Help You In Business by everyday: 8:59pm On Nov 03, 2013 |
where can i learn these languages |
Re: Foreign Languages That May Help You In Business by Mamacita007(f): 8:59pm On Nov 03, 2013 |
Me yamo mamacita - spanish Afa m bu mamacita - igbo Let's do business spanish is the most valuable in America 4 Likes |
Re: Foreign Languages That May Help You In Business by OkikiOluwa1(m): 8:59pm On Nov 03, 2013 |
Honestly, I v shotlisted these languages to study them. I observed last year that they are the leading languages in the world. |
Re: Foreign Languages That May Help You In Business by Nobody: 8:59pm On Nov 03, 2013 |
This article is obviously for a British audience. What Nigerians need to learn are French (for our Francophone neighbours) and Mandarin (for our Igbo traders who go to Guangzhou for business). 6 Likes |
Re: Foreign Languages That May Help You In Business by Gifted4all(m): 9:01pm On Nov 03, 2013 |
Nna maka y u forget to put igbo for der,dats d language we use for importer nd exporter. Chinekeeeeee uwa di egwu 2 Likes |
Re: Foreign Languages That May Help You In Business by Nobody: 9:02pm On Nov 03, 2013 |
Am fluent in German and French. Thank You! |
Re: Foreign Languages That May Help You In Business by BlackHuman(m): 9:05pm On Nov 03, 2013 |
"Foreign" languages that can help you in business HERE IN NIGERIA -Yoruba -Hausa -Igbo (WAZOBIA) 1 Like |
Re: Foreign Languages That May Help You In Business by ifebosco: 9:07pm On Nov 03, 2013 |
philusaau: Estoy feliz de que puedo hablar muy bien el españolya somos dos hermaño |
Re: Foreign Languages That May Help You In Business by Tayeni(m): 9:08pm On Nov 03, 2013 |
Mandarin and French for me |
Re: Foreign Languages That May Help You In Business by God2man(m): 9:11pm On Nov 03, 2013 |
Great thread. I am really interested in various foreign languages. God2man. |
Re: Foreign Languages That May Help You In Business by hammedkola(m): 9:11pm On Nov 03, 2013 |
That's why I want to add Arabic n Spanish to my memory hard disk |
Re: Foreign Languages That May Help You In Business by Dannylux: 9:11pm On Nov 03, 2013 |
Mandarin, French and Arabic - with these you can almost go around the world language-barrier-free (taking English to be known already) They are the ones I admire |
Re: Foreign Languages That May Help You In Business by ProfessorPP(m): 9:11pm On Nov 03, 2013 |
Why did U exclude ISOKO, URHOBO, IJESA & IJEBU. |
Re: Foreign Languages That May Help You In Business by 3Dimension: 9:11pm On Nov 03, 2013 |
I laff in swahili. U no put igbo language. When be say na 1/3 pound road aba. Be the main thing. U no put yoruba wey be say 128 nnamdi azikwe street idumota is the cbd of lagos. U no put afrikaans (abi na wetin dem dey speak for zimbabwe sef) wey be say na dir the end time newspaper they see enuf news. Abeg change ur report joor 2 Likes |
Re: Foreign Languages That May Help You In Business by millhouse: 9:13pm On Nov 03, 2013 |
Ijaw |
Re: Foreign Languages That May Help You In Business by AbuMikey(m): 9:15pm On Nov 03, 2013 |
I'm actually learning how to speak Spanish!! |
Re: Foreign Languages That May Help You In Business by russianmob27: 9:17pm On Nov 03, 2013 |
I speak russian fluently...good for me i guess 4 Likes |
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