Is it possible to major or "minor" in Spanish or French?

[beargins]

I meant to mention Farsi too. I forgot about Iran.

You forgot Turkish too ryoder

[burbuja0512]

Well said.
I work with a bunch of people who speak different languages and I have seen language as a reason for people to segregate themselves as well. Take Indians for example. They speak many languages but the people from the same regions tend to hang out together and speak in their local languages.
I think this is probably typical of first generation immigrants in a new country. Their children who are born in the US will probably feel much more comfortable speaking in English than a regional dialect from south India.

I learned in human cultural geography that there are hundreds of languages in some countries. India has 30 very popular languages spoken by millions. So it is really hard to pick a language.

I think as globalization continues the world will end up with about 10 languages: English, Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Hindi, Arabic, German are the ones I think will dominate. French is on its way out as the French birth rate is very low. Who the heck knows.

This is why I am not super excited to learn one language when ultimately English will be the language of basic global commerce.

That being said, I did take 2 years of Spanish and I did like it.

I also speak Java, C++, C#, SQL, JavaScript, VisualBasic, ADA, Assembly Language and some others

:willynilly: omg programming languages are so tough for me to remember.. my brain definitely does not work well that way :willynilly:

I agree with your assessment of the other languages and I think I spoke too soon on my language order. Today in a conversation with one of the top people in my company, it was suggested that Italian would be preferred.

I do also agree that English is and will continue to be the global language of commerce, and from an IT perspective I don't see a huge need to know lots of other languages for work. (but for fun yes ) From a sales perspective, I see the difference in how my relationships unfold the second that I start speaking the language. Since I'm pushing my product, anything I can do to impress the client is a bonus.