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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You don't pay shit ton of money and major in a language at a college.

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Depends.  My kid is double majoring in international relations and Russian. American citizens with proficiency in a critical language (Arabic, Chinese, Russian are 3 of the biggies) are in very high demand in the federal government.

French— not so much. [/quote]
Yes, but they doubled majored.  It's like the  lawyer PP who got an undergrad in Spanish.  They also had to get a law degree in order to find a good paying job.

The point is about majoring in a foreign language *only*.  [/quote]

I’m one of the Spanish major lawyers. I was *never* going to get a high paid job with just a bachelors because I am not a STEM person. And if I had not gone onto law school, my next choice would have been a service profession (probably maximizing salary for non-STEM major) where Spanish absolutely would have been a benefit. Foreign language studies also improve writing skills and communication skills overall and assuming a study abroad, mean the student has learned adaptability to other cultures and can manage new situations. [/quote]

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