Tag: language

Lifehack published a good article that attempts to identify the best languages to learn for business and personal success in the future. While learning any language is going to be beneficial for your career and your personal life, some are more important than others. The article listed these criteria as important in assessing which languages would be best to learn: Number of potential speakers Growth of native speakers Economic power of countries that speak the language And more… And the most important languages to learn? In order, they are: Mandarin German Portuguese Spanish Arabic Russian Hindi Are you surprised by […]

Which job seekers are in hot demand? Bilingual workers. That was the headline to an article in the March 13, 2017 Boston Globe.  The article reported that the number of online job postings targeting bilingual workers more than doubled nationwide between 2010 and 2015, rising 162 percent, according to a new report by New American Economy, a coalition of mayors and business leaders that supports immigration reform. The languages seeing the biggest rise in demand: Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic. Bilingual job listings for higher-end positions, including those in finance and engineering, grew the fastest, but the majority of bilingual jobs […]