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Which Languages Useful for Engineering ?
Mechatrommer:
Hmm the odd of them and you knowing my language is one in a million.
Mechatrommer:
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--- Quote from: Mechatrommer on October 28, 2018, 11:13:57 pm ---Hmm the odd of them and you knowing my language is one in a million.
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I actually once had a classmate in US who speaks fluent English and Mandarin, whose native tongue is Malay.
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i was talking about non-native malay. its common here for people to know 3-5 languages including the national language, chinese and indian being most of them (malay, english, chinese (for chinese) and india (for indian)) i can speak and understand 3 languages (malay, english and my native/ethnic language) i know very little bit chinese and arab. if i want to learn a language, the first word i will learn is how to say "i dont know" or "i dont understand" it solved many confusions ;D
Orlando:
Well yes, english and german are the most useful languages in my experience. But as recomendation you should try looking for the Brands languages you are interested in, for example, BK Precision, Rigol, Volkswagen, Ford, GW Instek, SAP... and then you will have a better idea of what you will need to get the job you want.
CatalinaWOW:
The answers to this seem to ignore the fact that there are several reasons for using a language. What is important varies with purpose.
Day to day life. Includes buying things from wherever. Here the answer is 1. The native tongue(s) where you are living. 2. English There is no 3 at the moment though Chinese is elbowing its way in since if you want to buy anything that is the place to go.
Background technical information. Latin has dropped off this list for engineers and the order of the top three is subject to debate but 1. English 2. German 3. French 4. Russian 5. Japanese. Again, Chinese either should be on this list or will be soon. Detail matters here too. For example if you want computer architecture, logic, programming theory and so on English dominates. If you want closed form math, approximation methods and other things like that Russian rules.
Current hacks and technical activity. My list here is biased by my own language limitations. I won't try to order them but I have found good stuff in English, German, French and Russian (in that order). There seems to be good stuff in Chinese, but Google translate just isn't good enough to get those kinds of web information out for me.
westfw:
--- Quote ---Only a small percentage of people in China with a university level education understand English well enough to hold a simple conversation. Many of them feel pretty bad about this, as they all studied English from kindergarten to their last year at university.
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That sounds painfully similar to foreign language education in the US. University-bound students are nearly required to have studied "a foreign language" in school (usually starting in Middle School (age 13?), after which you can sort-of survive "life" as long as native speakers of that language are willing to speak slowly and listen with a forgiving ear. But trying to follow full-speed conversation, or understand the plot of a novel is a bit beyond us :-( Developing actual fluency requires PRACTICE, which is ... difficult.(OTOH, a lot of the technical details of English grammar and tenses and so on end up being learned in the foreign language classes, since actual English classes tend to focus on vocabulary, comprehension and interpretation.)
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