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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you will be living in the U.S., I say Spanish will have the widest applicability. If you want to work in diplomacy or intelligence, then so-called in demand or hard languages set you up, i.e. Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Urdu, Pashto, etc. [/quote] They are in demand right now but by the time the OP's child graduates college, we'll be fighting with a different group of countries, and who knows what will be sexy then. Having said that, we have our children learn Russian and Arabic (both outside of school) to the point of complete fluency. Mostly because these are our heritage languages, but it also makes sense because they are very different from English (and from each other). I feel that English fluency helps with French, Spanish etc. so the kids can always learn them if they wish, but Russian and Arabic are completely different systems and English won't help with those. [/quote]
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