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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Accounting and learn Farsi or Arabic [/quote]I agree about the languages especially critical ones (Chinese, Farsi, Arabic, Russian, etc).  Accounting too.  Government agencies are desperately looking for Americans who speak another language or more.  Some even offer a $20,000 hiring incentive.   [/quote]

Of these, Arabic and Farsi are scarcer and government agencies find these harder to come by. Unless your family speaks at least some Chinese at home, Chinese is going to be an uphill climb, plus there are many other kids who already know Chinese plus English.[/quote]DC started Chinese in 2nd grade and is now in 11th grade.  Since we don't speak Chinese at home, DC takes evening conversational Chinese twice a week in addition to the 5 days at school, immersion summers, and watches Chinese TV and reads newspapers.  While not the optimum situation, it is far better than no exposure at all and DC is quite advanced.  In college, DC will go into Level IV and above conversational Chinese.  While DC won't major in Chinese, it will be the minor.

I hardly think any government agency would kick DC to the curb because DC isn't Chinese and had no home spoken Chinese.  However, you are correct about Farsi and Arabic, and there are numerous summer programs for high school students to get started. [/quote]

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