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Which language is more necessary in Europe?
I'm European and I would like to stay and work in Europe. I'm senior in high school and I'm interested in studying languages and becoming an interpretor or translator, but I'm having hard time deciding which one - Arabic, Russian or Spanish. What do you think, which language is the most perspective?
Besides English.
On our faculties, we're not alowed to study French unles we learned it in high school, and I had German. I know some of it, but I don't like it enough. Arabs are working with a lot of contries these days, so I thought it's perspective, but it's hard, so I'm not sure about it. And Spanish don't speak English, so I thought I could work there and translate to English, when I improve a bit, or my mother tongue.
5 Answers
- ?Lv 64 years ago
None of the languages you're torn between are necessary for interaction within Europe. Arabic isn't a European language, the countries which speak Russian are isolated from the rest of Europe (politically, socially and economically speaking) and Spanish is only spoken in one European country (guess which one...) From an international perspective, these languages are useful, but since you're specifically talking about Europe, they're not.
Aside from English, I suggest you learn French, German or both. They're both (along with English) working languages of the European Union, are spoken natively in multiple EU countries, and are widely understood second / third languages throughout the continent.
- Anonymous4 years ago
English
- RainLv 74 years ago
Europe is multilingual. Every country has its own language, or two and even more. It's about 50 countries and more than so languages. English is the best bet.
- Don VertoLv 74 years ago
In continental Europe Russian,German and French have the most speakers.German and French would be most useful.However if you are going to work and live in the Netherlands then Dutch would be most useful.English will be understood by many Europeans but not as well as their native language.You may learn Esperanto and then you would have a hard time to find any speakers.
